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Aug. 22nd, 2021 04:52 pm 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.
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.