{"id":6,"date":"2014-06-29T17:09:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T17:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2014-07-10T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T16:34:52","slug":"im-printing-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"I’m printing 3D!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retired at 60 and sitting on my butt? I don’t think so! As I tell people, “I’m busier than I ever was \u2013 and<\/strong> I’m enjoying myself more than ever!”<\/p>\n

One of the things I’m doing is creating a coin processing device called Coins-Worth<\/a>.\u00a0 But to do this, I needed a 3D printer!\u00a0 Above you see my Lulzbot printer printing out a part for it. It’s a Lulzbot TAZ 4<\/a> I got\u00a0through Amazon.<\/p>\n

So I decided to create a 3D-specific blog, just to chronicle the things I’m doing in this realm. For more general posts from me, see my main site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Retired at 60 and sitting on my butt? I don’t think so! As I tell people, “I’m busier than I ever was \u2013 and I’m enjoying myself more than ever!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/3d.rayharwood.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140629-100905-36545551.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p76pQa-6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":106,"url":"https:\/\/3d.rayharwood.com\/?p=106","url_meta":{"origin":6,"position":0},"title":"3D-Cam","date":"July 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"As I mentioned in one of my Twitter threads, it's great to have a remotely monitor-able 3D Printer Cam, so you can keep an eye on a print-in-progress while doing other work. 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