(updated March 2022)
In April 2020, I started my 3D printing hobby with a 3D printing mask relief strap for my Mother’s business and an embedded logo on two printers that I borrowed from my brother Nicholas who owned the Printrbot Simple metal and the Ender 3. After constantly 3D printing these mask relief straps bought my own Ender 3 for about $200. I’ve since 3D printed all kinds of things, including a clone trooper helmet (still WIP as of 2022.)
In April of 2022, I purchased another printer for about $300 from a friend of my brother Caleb. The CR-10 S5 is the largest 3D printer in the CR-10 lineup.
The previous owner had started upgrading almost every aspect of the printer, and I have been working on getting it fully operational with only three successful prints since owning it. (at the moment of this being published working on getting the DDX (Direct Drive eXtruder) to work with the Slice Engineering Hotend.) Since starting work on this project, I have learned many aspects of how a 3D printer works. I’ve learned what to tweak when there’s an issue I’ve dealt with before with my CR-10 S5. And learned to code my own marlin firmware for my specific hardware.
I have also deployed Octoprint instances nearly twenty times with Raspberry Pi and Android devices. As well as using Octolapse for fun videos I published on the 3D Printlapses Youtube channel.
Currently, I am working on my 3D printers (Ender 3 and the CR-10 S5) for maintenance and upgrades.