Creatorpult Design

08/16/2024

Amazing the level of detail you can get out of just 4 colors...

08/15/2024

07/11/2024

07/11/2024

Thanks to the Haverhill Chamber and everyone who came to our ribbon cutting!

07/11/2024

Stop in and see us this afternoon. We're looking forward to it.

This Thursday join us for a Business After Hours & Ribbon Cutting at Creatorpult Design/Creatorpult Games!

Snacks & drinks will be provided!

Register here: https://haverhillma.chambermaster.com/events/details/business-after-hours-and-ribbon-cutting-createrpult-games-5145978?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3a5xdAn1S3gWbGq7X29YiOEqGK_RPOYdGEqpXk5aG7n2jxnMURuzuHJ7Q_aem_nvCw6TS__TsvuvC0-9EZlw

07/02/2024

We've been prototyping for a new product recently! We'll be showing off more soon once we get these last specifications sorted out.

These prints showed us some things that we needed answered before we could continue. Design is rarely a one-try process, we have to go through a lot of iterating before we can iron things out. Besides just getting it to look right and work right, we need to decide materials, organize print settings, and determine alternative versions or use cases. Any one of these not being right or meshing badly with each other can send us back to the design phase with a bit more info to work with. That's why we spend the time to do test prints like these, to notice issues like font under a certain size not coming out or an imprint on the back showing through to the front. Then we go again with those problems better addressed.

We've got to fit in the last few pieces of the puzzle, but you'll hear more about this product soon!

06/29/2024

Multi-color prints are something that, when used right, can really make a product pop!

It used to be unreasonably tedious to do multi-color prints. You would have to either change the material yourself every layer for every color change or you could homebrew something. Usually, at most people would change colors for just specific layers. As time went on, some printers became able to switch between 2 materials, thus letting you have 2 colors. It still takes much longer since the machine has to pull the filament back before it can put the new one in each layer, but being automatic was still a huge upgrade from doing it manually! Now we have our Bambu Labs printers, which have 4 colors available to us. Bambu Labs actually has a way to go up to 16 colors, but we're still working on getting all the value out of the 4 we have.

It does still take some time to switch material each layer, but we have some strategies for that too! Each layer, the printer has to switch to each color used on that layer once. It doesn't matter how much is used, each color used will add a set amount of time. To adapt to this, we'll make avoid having places where just a time, unnoticeable patch is a different color, since we'll still have to wait for the entire transition. We can also optimize by printing in bulk! Since we only switch to each color once per layer, so it doesn't need to switch any more often for 10 printed at once as it does for 1.

We love to work with color! It really makes the project more fun. If you have anything you'd be interested in having printed in multi-colors, reach out to us and let's make something fun!

06/27/2024

Our "Store" is like a craft store, junk drawer, and messy closet rolled into one! This is where we keep bits and parts from various things we've done over the year. Some parts are more organized than others, but I call it our "Store" because it's where we go shopping for parts or mediums to work on. It's great to have so many parts and materials around when we start on a new project! We keep a variety of things on hand so that we can start right away when someone brings in a project.

06/25/2024

3D printers have a cool capability of being able to print parts for themselves! It'd be like if your house could make a new room for you. Usually the upgrades aren't quite that drastic, though! This printer needed an enclosure, which helps it print more materials by keeping the temperature constant. We didn't have one for it at the time, so Chris went ahead and printed one. Those corners are all completely 3D printed and designed so that it would be able to fit and hold the enclosure walls that he was able to get. At the time, without this capability, we would've had no choice but to buy a very expensive 3rd party enclosure since this was before Bambu Labs made one for this printer.

Today, we're printing spools for some new material we got in! 3D printer material comes on these rolls, but it feels wasteful to use the material then have to just throw the spools away. So, some filament manufacturers started selling refills for a few dollars less. We had a lot of this blue material and no plans for it, so we're saving some money by printing our own spools so we can just buy the material! This way I also get to make the sides the way that I'd like and can make replacements any time that a part breaks rather than needing to buy a new one!

06/22/2024

Our Fiber Laser is opening up a lot of new doors! This one's really new, only a few days actually, so we're still figuring it out. But fiber lasers can cut a whole slew of materials that laser cutters can't, including metals! Our can even engrave colors onto using a technology called MOPA, although we haven't figured that one out quite yet.

A fiber laser, as the name suggests, is different from a laser cutter because it has the laser travel through a powerful fiber-optic cable. Fiber lasers are able to work faster and more precisely than laser cutters because of this. The power that the laser has is so much stronger that it is a giant help in engraving hundreds of materials and cutting through quite a bit too!

As we learn more, you'll probably hear from me about our fiber laser again. But if you want to see a demo of an engraving onto one of these metal coins, come by today or tomorrow! We are giving out tours for our Grand Opening showing off our new fiber laser as well as all the other cool technology we work with!

06/22/2024

It's HERE! Our doors are now open for our Grand Reopening! Come by anytime today for a tour and a chance to see some of the projects we've made! We'll have tours going all day until close and I'd love to see you in person to tell you about everything we've got going on! I hope to see you soon!

06/20/2024

Come by and chat. We'll be answering questions about our services and showing samples from our new Elegoo Neptune 4 Max Large Format 3d printer and our new 60W MOPA Fiber Laser. We can finally engrave almost any metal!