glitch25 | (no subject)

The last two days have had weather with highs at less than 70, and it's been glorious! Love every millisecond of it. I wish there had been rain, but hopefully that will come back soon.

This week I was gifted a 3d printer by a co-worker that had gotten fed up with the fiddly-ness of them. It is true in my experience that the less you pay for a printer, the more work you are required to do to make clean nice prints. This printer had apparently experienced a catastrophic print that completely coated the hot end in plastic. I gather that the nozzle had clogged. My co-worker had even bought the replacement parts and just had completely lost the interest in fixing it. I appreciated the timing because I had been shopping for a printer for myself. I was able to get it repaired and then spent the better part of the week dialing in the settings and tweaking the fiddly bits. As of Thursday night, I managed to get some pretty decent prints from it and tried some other things over the weekend and am pleased with the results.

Me being the guy I am, once the printer was mostly up and working, I got to work getting a raspberry pi attached with the Octoprint software. This allows you to access the printer over the network. Makes some things so much easier, and I discovered that Cura, the slicer program that I use, supports direct-to-octoprint printing, so that's just an added bonus.

Overall, it should be nice to have and I'm looking forward to making the most of it.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

what's the model anyway?

Creality Ender 5.

Sweet. I've wanted to play with one for a while but not quite enough to buy one.

The Ender 3 is relatively inexpensive. It is a little fiddly though. But as I say, the less you spend, the more you can expect to put time and effort into making it work. Printing the grand catalogs of designs out there is fun, though I'm hoping to get to design some of my own stuff, or at least tweak some things that other people may have done. I envision lots of test prints and tweaks. there is lots to be said about having a thing that makes plastic parts to your specs.

Yay for better weather and for passed along printer goodness! Enjoy both while they last... :-)

I am hopeful on both fronts, though I know weather will kick back up a bit in the coming week. Hopefully not too hot. Just not nice and cool either. :-)