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First SKR Bear Klipper edition print.
A mini me at 50mm/s external perimeter, 80mm/s internal perimeter, and 120mm/s infill. Those are the requested speeds so it didn’t reach them but it tried to for sure. Retractions look clean, pressure advance looks good, tuning is okay but theses speeds and higher acceleration it’s harder to hid...
SKR Bear Klipper Edition
Finally sat down and hammered away at about 10 hours of firmware debugging because yet again Klipper fails to provide all the lovely and juicy coding goodness I need to make the firmware sing quickly.I have the majority of goodies transferred like neopixels, Z align, and so on. I still have a lot of...
Analyzing the test
Running the first tests with the new WC nozzle I got from Jason and had some interesting results. I’m using nearly the same gcode here but am finding that the print is more matte using the tungsten carbide nozzle. On the other hand layer smoothness and extrusion seem better. After chatting with Ja...
Something new.
A custom and very rare Tungsten Carbide nozzle arrived today from good friends at LDO. Thanks Jason!!!Going to pop this onto a printer and will start printing some brutal filaments ASAP!
New toys!!!! Thanks Sergio!
Thanks to Sergio I now have a Thermo-Anemometer so I can attain CFM values to compare fans, ducting, and other goodies. Basically this allows me to get baseline values for just how much pressure a fan has and then use that value to compare it to other fans and modifications to said fans. So what doe...
Why we don’t duct axial fans coming soon.
CAD is opening up some new tests and soon I’ll have a CFM tester as well but until then I’m going to finish designing a poor man’s tester and get some physical results. Stay tuned!
The LED Matrix Clock Project
Since learning Solidworks something I’ve wanted to do is make more practical prints and combine them with arduino projects. Here is a relatively inexpensive project that takes about 30 minutes to put together and costs about $40 or less. Much less if you use aliexpress. I haven’t finished all th...
I make mistakes too.
You know some people look up to me as if I know everything but man is that the opposite of reality. I was struggling so hard with Klipper on the MK3s. I was getting really good prints at faster speeds but I was struggling with retractions. Changed 400 billion settings and then ended up swapping the ...
Bringing back a classic: Prusa MK2S
Someone asked if klipper could bring new life to a MK2S. Challenge accepted. Plus the MK2S just printed so darn good. Thankfully I was able to find all the original hardware from my very first MK2 and my hardened hob gear. This build will be a live steam on my YouTube channel so stay tuned!!!!!!
Klipper Input Shaper
So one of the special features in Klipper that intrigues me is Input Shaper. If you’ve heard of S Curve acceleration in Marlin this is it’s much more powerful cousin. To make it sound simple you can either print a specific test object at fast speeds and then use some math to calculate how much ...
Project 1: Klipper
Yuppers... learning yet another firmware. This time it's Klipper.Why? Its the hot new thing and I have to see if it brings what it promises to the market.Where? On my Taz6 and my stock Prusa MK3s+ because they both run 8 bit boards and this is supposed to make those boards better.Really? Basical...
Stock Prusa MK3s+ Einsy Klipper Fix
I've been working like a madman to get a Klipper build to work correctly and at speed for about 2 days now. I have the firmware ready but there was a new hurdle... the Einsy USB is slow as heck.To sum it up when you get an Einsy from Prusa, so basically any time you buy a MK3s, the USB serial is...
Laser Etched Extrusion!
Mail day came unexpectedly today since everything has been very delayed shipping wise and it happened to be my custom V slot extrusion masterfully laser etched by Taylor Goetz. So beautiful. So so beautiful. What kind of bear should I build with this???? Maybe it’s time for a klipper bear...
Klipper?!!!
Yuppers. I’m testing klipper. I set it up on the Taz 6 but for you crazy kids I just finished one for the stock MK3S!!!!!!!!!!!I’ll make some klipper videos but until then head over to the discord if you want a config to use for your own experimentation. Github Klipper
Gah so much going on!
Voron 0 and Solidworks and new screens to test and Klipper and so much more. I’ve literally buried myself in projects all at once and I haven’t kept up sharing them here so when I wake up I’m going to work on sharing some info on each so stay tuned!!
Less than 30 minutes till Lily AMA
Moved her off the workbench and onto the cart for the show in the Patreon Zone on discord. Be there or be a rectangular object with all sides that are equal.
Lily AMA reschedule
Bumping this bad boy tomorrow same time. Saturday at 4pm Central. Was getting all ready then I forgot I had a meeting scheduled online today near the same time. Get your questions ready and let’s chat tomorrow in the Patreon Zone in discord.
OctoFarm/OctoPrint vs Repetier
I’ve been using Repetier for a long while and it’s definitely made my life easier running multiple machines down here and as my printer army grows I decided to weigh in the options again and see just what I’m missing when I left the open source world of Octoprint. I will say that so far OctoFa...
Tons of Nova testing
I’ve been running this hotend since day one of the Maurice build and so far I’ve found it’s weakness and it’s strength. Weakness. Retractions. It needs less retraction like a Mosquito but unlike a mosquito being off slightly causes jamming. Lots of jamming. It struggles with lots of tiny ret...
Lily pellet extruder AMA
Friday at 4pm Central USA I’ll be in the discord Patreon zone to answer any and all questions that has to do with the Lily you may have. I hope to do more Q&A sessions on discord only for my patrons because y’all deserve something special for being so awesome!!!Let me know other topics you’d l...
3 main projects complete!
It’s been a rough time getting these 3 main projects finished and ready but they are done. 1. Finished the stock MK3s+ but it needs a lot of tuning which will begin ASAP. 2. The Lily pellet extruder is working amazingly and I’m learning how to work with a system that doesn’t have gears but an ...
It’s working!!!!
So far so good in the land of pellet printing. It took a while to get it working and to figure out the feeder system but it works and I couldn’t be happier right now. A months work of pondering, CAD, and now building all coming together. Once I have the entire printer assembled I’ll get some vid...
It fits!!!!
All the hard work paid off and it fits perfectly. Now time to wire this up and have it working so I can play with pellets instead of filament.
Almost ready
I’ve been working every day in Solidworks to create a proper mount for the Lily pellet extruder. I actually nearly finished it once and then I realized I did it so badly, aka I took shortcuts, and couldn’t fix a design flaw without doing so much work it was just faster to start over. I’ll be o...
The Wham Bam Mutant
Well. I’m not impressed by the quality of the product or how it was shipped. Let’s get that out right away and move on to productive and constructive things. Positives: Locks in without issue in any of the 3 included plates repeatedly. Seems intuitive enough to work with. Should be easy to devel...
Maurice Lives
Custom printer redo is nearly ready to print. A few more wires and I’ll have it running it’s first tests.
A Prusa was born
Sure it doesn’t have all the same parts but it runs stock firmware and all the stock parts that I could print. Definitely a painful build with one wrong Z motor stopping the first live stream and during this stream I found that the X axis rods were 3mm too long so I showed off my Dremel skills Liv...
Update time!!!!!
I’m getting better at CADI’ll be live-streaming tomorrow because UPS has the final parts to finish my MK3S+ build. Voron build will happen once I finish the MK3s build and the custom printer because I need to get more printers up and running. Designing a new type of extruder. Need ideas for cool...
Who’s ready for a pellet extruder?
The Lily pellet extruder and tons of Printed Solid PLA pellets and colorant arrived and I just need to jump into CAD to make a mount so this beast can begin its life as a sustainable printing solution. After I get this up and running my next goal will be grinding up my old prints and using waste as ...
So close and so much learned...
Final parts and minor revisions are happening to this tank of a printer. Just waiting on a small revision to the Y motor holder and then all that’s left to print is the electronics case and the extruder mount. This adventure has taught me so much about designing for 3D printing along with the obst...
