Migration to Hubitat complete
As part of my many parallel projects I am doing around the house (which have all converged at the same time) I finished our new home automation setup. As I mentioned in a previous post https://joekelly.co//diy/home-automation-wink-to-hubitat/ , the migration was … Continued
IDEX Printing in action
Now that the printer construction is wrapping up, I am deep in to testing the scripts, calibrations, and such to enable dual extruder printing. With IDEX setups, (dual independent extruders) calibration is much more difficult than standard “shared” single X … Continued
Printer nearing its final form
It’s been a couple week or so since I posted about the 3D printer. This is due to other projects and work getting in the way. But also because work on the printer in general is tapering off as its … Continued
Dry box install on the 3D printer
Just a quick update on the 3D printer. I printed some of the last critical parts for the printer. In this case it was the spool holders that not only hold the filament spools but also mount the dryboxes to … Continued
Home Automation – Wink to Hubitat
So let’s keep things interesting with another topic- Home Automation! Since we moved into our house in late 2016 we’ve had home automation deployed to control lighting, locks, and dozens of sensors to protect the house from water, forgetting to … Continued
Dropping weight
I’ve had a few people ask on FB about what the process/diet/recipe has been to drop weight so fast (50# in 2.5Mo so far this year). The answer is simply – a massive lifestyle change and diet change, and not … Continued
Bitten by bad filament again…
So my struggles with the questionable filament I recieved by 3DXtech a while ago has gone to a new level. I have had a theory that the first spool I recieved (since their reps even told me the batch number … Continued
First prints with the new printer
After a flurry of changes, tweaks, repairs (yup), and final wiring of the right extruder… She lives. Below are the pics of the final wired extruders. Overall the printer is working awesome and better than I thought it would for … Continued
9 Year old home server finally up and died.
Early 2010 I build a beefy server for the time to handle virtualization and be a pretty comprehensive lab server in my house. Well… over the weekend it went dark. It would power up, the BMC would come up, but … Continued
Big progress tonight – X carriages wired up
Tonight my Anet AM8 printer was running non stop, I was designing non stop, and building non stop. I was designing parts and pulling them straight from the printer as I went, rinse and repeat. The X Carriages (X and … Continued
Giving the heated bed some room to move
Physics and material science says that when you heat up a block of aluminum, it is going to expand. Now that expansion isnt a whole lot, but over a 330×330 plate going from room temp (20C) to 110C in a … Continued
Heated Bed is Hot!
While on vacation over the weekend I took advantage of an offer to use a drill press at my sister in laws work. (Which just so happens to be a military base, so its like I was using my own … Continued