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Certain filaments dry out easily and become brittle, and you can really see this here, where this old #3Dprint broke.
We can always re-print but PLA is very happy to work with superglue so we can easily rectify this!
#failfriday

Celebrating the start of longer days and new life springing up all around us with some beautiful Celtic design bookmarks.
#makernonday

Our #failfridays are really developing a pattern. In this weeks episode our baby Ultimaker GO's motor cable mysteriously breaks.
Going to try and see if we can repair it ourselves if not we will schedule a service for our printers.
A little health check all round.

Let us start @lovedataweek.bsky.social with some maker love. We are utterly smitten with these beautiful plant pots requested by a @mulibrary.bsky.social colleague.
#makermonday #lovedata26

January is just refusing to end so we are 3D printing some custom designed jewellery to distract ourselves.
#makermonday

@library_mu #STEM  #Innovation #Sustainability #MUResearch

It has only been 3 months since we launched our newly renovated Makerspace and we are so excited to start scanning printing and soldering in the New Year!

Thank you to all of you who have supported us and encouraged all our work, our makes and our fails. Bring on 2026!

#MakerMonday

The Christmas season may be coming to a close, but you can still embrace the holiday spirit with our Virtual Advent calendar. We would like to thank all those who contributed to its creation. We hope you enjoyed viewing it! app.cloudpano.com/tours/0TnYSz...
#MULibraryAdvent 🎄

Merry Christmas to all from MU Library Makerspace!

It is Christmas Eve and the magic is in the air. Why not enjoy a bit of mulled wine and a mince pie while you enjoy our last window.

#MULibraryAdvent Day 24🎄  

The star is shining very brightly…🫣-https://app.cloudpano.com/tours/0TnYSzTAK

Merry Christmas from all at MU Library Makerspace!

#MULibraryAdvent Day 22🎄  

It’s almost time…some here’s another Christmas blessing. Can you find the serene nativity scene with an artistic bow flourish?- Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://app.cloudpano.com/tours/0TnYSzTAK

Urghhh a serious blocked & clogged print nozzle damaged the cables in the back or the print core so I had to take the whole thing apart & try & get the core free.
It worked but took a a good few days to get it free. Guess I need to sign up to arm workouts in 2026!
#failfriday

#MULibraryAdvent Day 15🎄  

Can you find the very Green Celtic bird? We hope he’s not a Grinch!- Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-https://app.cloudpano.com/tours/0TnYSzTAK

For #MakerMonday this week we collaborated with Special Collections and created #3Dprinted coins for readers to use in the lockers in the Russell Library!

We’re at the halfway point! Are you enjoying the Advent Experience? Don’t forget to click on the info spot to learn a little more about Brian O’Higgins (1882-1963).

#MULibraryAdvent Day 12🎄

Can you find his colourful poem? Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-Here

What a way to bring the year to a close! We received some images of those tedious knight figures that nearly broke us and they are all painted and in one piece!
Here is to successful and challenging #3dprints in 2026
#MakerMonday

Well this is a first for our #failfriday... the spring has gone in the SD reader on our @Ultimaker 2 so we have come up with a creative way of holding our card in place while we print...

Today is the day where we launch the Virtual Advent Experience 2025! 🥳

Come back each day for a sneak peek 🔍

#MULibraryAdvent Day 1🎄

Can you find the very serious speckled duck? - Search for it here and no peeking ahead!🫣-

app.cloudpano.com/tours/0TnYSz...

We are delighted to have partnered with Ciara Caulfield and #MaynoothAccessGroup for Disability Awareness Week. We had such fun creating some #3Dprinted accessible accessories for toys!
Drop into the Library to see some of the toys on display.
#IDPWD #MULibrary

Another disaster *cough cough* "learning opportunity" has come our way in the makerspace. A failed print and a massive blob of jammed filament caused our @ultimaker print core to get jammed into place.
Surgery is underway.... 🙏
#failfriday

We did it! It is not the most perfect #3Dprint in the world but after dozens of attempts it finally completed without breaking.
Now try not to even breathe on it...
#makermonday

This time of year we start thinking of gifts to buy and make for our friends and family. I particularly love a great game reference and it doesn't get much greater that some #3Dprinted models from @Eldenring game of the year 2022.
#makermonday #eldenring #epic

How much to #3dprinting figures make you want to cry...? Me 2000 knights on horseback later.. a lot. Supports just not supporting😂
But I still have the determination (stubbornness) to keep trying different positions, infills, support material...
#failfriday

Did you know you can paint your 3D prints? Look at these talented makers at play customising their #3Dprinted #pokemon.
#makermonday

Not all heroes wear masks... some of us wear really cool #3Dprinted masks.

Happy Halloween from MU Library Makerspace!

And we are official!

Thank you to everyone who came to the official launch of the MU Library's Creative spaces: Makerspace and Media Lab
We hoped everyone enjoyed the presentations demos and goodies.

#ResearchWeek2025

This 13th of Oct dare you enter the pumpkin patch on campus with our 2025 #Halloween Virtual Experience with MU Library Makerspace featuring images from the collections of St Patrick's Pontifical University Maynooth University Library🎃
Enter Here - ow.ly/GJMS50XavQR
Oíche Shamhna!🧙♀️

I really do have a love hate relationship with #3Dprint supports. This print of Alexander from #EldenRing @fromsoftwarepr.bsky.social is such a great design but the supports under his arm leave him so rough. Any tips?
"And then, one day, we'll be a single great champion.
The greatest of them all! "😭

And now for the result:
We were delighted to #3Dprint this model of a DNA structure for the #hamiltoninstitute in @maynoothuniversity.ie

Did you guess correctly?

#makermonday

Sometimes selecting infill levels can make or (literally) break a design.
This long pin was made to support a roller for a printing press and snapped under the pressure.
What % do you recommend without adding hours to a print job?
#failfriday

With the new academic year just around the corner #MakerMonday is back highlighting some of the prints coming from MU Library Makerspace.
Starting off with a sneak peak of a project we were delighted to take part in. Can you guess what these pieces will make up?
We show you the results next week!