Easy Cheese 3D Printer Parts

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Props to the night crew at the Danbury Hackerspace for this gross but fun project. Parts for mounting a can of can cheese to an Inventables X-Carve CNC. The set includes a servo mount, can mounting clamp, shim (for using frosting cans, they're slightly smaller), a fine tip nozzle for the cheese, and an arm to attach to the servo. There are nut pockets in the servo block so you can assemble the clamp/block with two screws. We connected the servo to an Arduino and used that to control the on/off dispensing arm. When a button was pushed or the switch was shorted, the arm would press the cheese nozzle and the food goo would extrude. These layers are going to be gigantic - .5 cm or so. Figuring how to modify your gcode to make your favorite cheesy shapes is a fun part of the project. Figuring out the right height above the platform is also important. This project was from last winter, so I'll see what I can dig up an will update the files and notes accordingly.