Interwebs of Joe
Not content with minorly breaking and fixing things, I went all out this weekend and reallllly broke the AM8 i’ve been printing the parts for my new printer with. I’ve been struggling in the last week with the heat block … Continued
So my trusty heavily modified Anet A8M is on the fritz… After printing pretty good through 6 rolls since it was rebuilt in early winter… It’s gone funky. 2 pulleys have failed, and now that think linear bearings on the … Continued
LED madness! Tonight was some code work and LED wiring. After ordering the wrong polarity of RGB LEDs last time I got the proper ones in for this main board (Common Anode). They are setup and coded to have different … Continued
As part of this project I plan to upload most of the designs and such to Thingiverse as the finishing of this project. The Duet and Duex mount I designed to go under the printer has been requested a few … Continued
Over the weekend I also got the BLTouch all setup so I can home all 4 axis now. Exciting times. I need to get the mounts done for the hot bed, but I am also waiting on a different 330×330 … Continued
This weekend, a ton of progress was made. All 3 of the Axis were mounted and tested. Some wiring was done(or tested at least), and test movements have happened for all the major components. Issues during the build out: LEDs… … Continued
In a sort of knee jerk move, the printer frame is together! I didn’t expect or plan to start building, but when I was trying to figure out the acrylic sheet sizes for the base to mount the electronics on, … Continued
Limited progress overall: So in the last few days, a few things are conspiring against this project. Not only am I still working to figure out WTF is going on with the CarbonX filament I received, but Amazon has seemingly … Continued
Over the weekend a lot of things got done, and a lot of things got started. Having my phone camera out of commission has limited some of the pictures I am taking through the project; new phone should be here … Continued
After days of frustration, after frustration, and compounding errors… it seems I nailed the right settings for this CarbonX filament. To the point that this print is one of the highest quality prints I’ve ever done in any material. It’s … Continued
After the drama of having the nozzle clog on the printer a few days ago, and making a number of changes to address that… I found many of the changes had a direct and negative effect on the tolerances and … Continued
