3D Printing

Luigi is passionate about and understands 3D printing for practical and aesthetic purposes. He has extensive experience with 3D printing on many different printers, including an Ender 3 Pro,  Ender 3 V2,  Ender 6, and his current printers, a Bambu Labs H2D with 1 AMS 2 pro and one AMS, and an X1-Carbon with 1 AMS. Below are some projects he has printed, some of which he also designed. Luigi has experience printing with PLA, PETG, ABS, and ASA.

At UB, Luigi was exposed to the board game Settlers of Catan. One day, he found the models for a 3D topographic version of Catan that he could print, so of course, he got to work. 

Luigi modified a piece holder design he found online to hold the base game player pieces more securely and then adapted the piece holder to store the pieces from the Seafarers and Cities and Knights expansions.  He then made a custom storage solution for holding the tiles, the harbors, the cards, and the upgrades for the  Cities and Knights expansion, which can be found here.

3D Filament Respooler

Luigi printed this filament spooler to buy larger spools of filament at a lower price per kilogram while still being able to use the AMS system on the X1 Carbon, which only accepts 1 kilogram of spools. This filament spooler was designed to be spun with a drill. Still, Luigi took it upon himself to automate this re-spooling process. He developed a mount to add a motor controlled by an Arduino that can precisely and repeatedly re-spool filament at the press of a button. More details of this project are on the Engineering page under the Arduino Lab, as he was able to do this as the final project for that class.