I spent about three weeks working on 3D printing an RC plane. I had initially searched for a somewhat easy RC plane to print and assemble as I’ve never had any experience with RC vehicles in general. I eventually found a good model that was both free and looked simple enough for me to be…
Category: 3D Printing
Using a DSLR Camera with Octolapse for Stunning 3D Printing Timelapses
Recently I bought a used Canon SL1 camera; it’s an old but great camera to use as a webcam or any general-use camera taking. One benefit is that it works with a lot of software using the USB port to capture a live video feed from the camera. When using the USB port it does…
Tuning Acceleration on my 3D Printer
Yesterday I got my Printrbot Simple Metal plus running, I had gotten it previously running, but it had significant build issues, mainly with no ease of access of the motherboard, when I designed the adapter for the SKR 1.4 motherboard to fit into the old Printrbot motherboard slot, I had no way of accessing the…
Upgrades for my Ender-3
I finally got around to fixing and upgrading my Ender-3. I’ve had my Ender3 for almost 2 years now and have occasionally been upgrading when needed. Last year I made my best upgrade to the “silent board” TMC2208 stepper drivers. Which significantly silenced the noise of the printer when printing. As well as a BL…
Upgrading My 3D Printer Motherboard
Recently I bought a new 3D printer motherboard; this motherboard is used to compute and control the motors, heaters, and fans for the average 3D printer. I purchased this motherboard to learn how to program a printer from scratch. A significant upgrade from this motherboard is swappable TMC drivers. TMC drivers are basically what provide…
My Project Printer: A Year in the Making
For the past almost year, I have been working on a project printer that I bought; the original frame and parts were from a CR-10 S5 (with a 500x500x500 build size) the first couple of test prints worked, but they were not optimal with many issues, elephants foot, layer line issues, and a couple other…
Octoprint
Over the year, I’ve used Octoprint for my 3d printers. Octoprint is a server that hosts on a Raspberry Pi (and now even an Android device), which then you connect to your printer, which you can connect using the local IP. Octoprint is mainly used for managing your prints since it’s a lot easier to…
Xbox Kinect with ReconstructMe
I recently found my old Xbox Kinect that came with the Xbox 360, and I wanted to see if the 3d scanning capabilities can still accurately pick up even twelve years later. I had tried this back in 2019 but had mixed results with the program I used (Skanect), which had a big paywall to…
Configuring Marlin Firmware for My Ender 3
I got into configuring marlin firmware for my specific printer recently; due to its widely supported amount of boards, I can easily modify the newest version of marlin for my printer. At first, I was going to go with the original Marlin as a base but decided to work with Jyers Marlin, a modified version…
Changing the LCD Configuration in Marlin
When updating my firmware on my 3D Printer (the ender 3), I recently ran into an issue when using a modified version of Jyers marlin. I realized that the screen configuration was of another type of LCD. So when I tried to flash it, the LCD screen would appear blank. After a lot of googling,…