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Author: Steven
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How I set up my old android phone to act as a fully featured e-reader and help me break free of the distractions on my primary phone.
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Any user of a Bambu Labs AMS knows that cardboard spools don’t play nicely in it. They slip on the rubber, they shed particles and just overall cause issues for users. However, some really great filament comes on cardboard spools and usually for a great price so in this quick 2 minute video I show…
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I was getting a bunch of layer lines or Vertical Fine Artifacts (VFAs) on my printer and figured it was time for some routine maintenance. Follow along with me as I clean up the rods and re-tension the belts to get the printer back to performing at 100% Supplies Needed 1. Bottle of Isopropyl Alcohol…
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I’ve tried a few different AliExpress ADXL’s for tuning my printers over the years. Each one had me solder (which I am not great at), find and read poorly translated how-tos, or deal with making an umbilical so after the ADXL on my Voron 0.2 stopped being reliable I want on a hunt and came…
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I recently came across an amazing project called XTouch that takes the Bambu Labs P1P/P1S experience to the next level. It uses an inexpensive but high-quality touchscreen display that taps into the printer’s MQTT broker to give you tons of added control and customization options.
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This is an in progress post documenting my research to get to getting this into Home Assistant Steps That Lead Me Here Resources: Pro to this is that seems to just be a “simple” Setup Con can’t run in Home assistant or HASSOS A PDF outlining some of the SDK of the ITron Riva Gen5…
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Really simple Home Assistant automation I wanted to share that turns the heater on in my office at 5am every weekday morning if the temperature in the office is below 71 and shut if off once it gets above 70. You could easily customize this for your your own use case, turning on a light,…
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In the last few months, I’ve been on a quest to find the best and most user friendly slicer software after becoming dissatisfied with Cura. I experimented with Prusa Slicer, Super Slicer, and OrcaSlicer, and after careful consideration, I have finally settled on OrcaSlicer as my primary slicer. Why OrcaSlicer? OrcaSlicer won me over for…
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With the shortage of Raspberry Pi’s still going on I picked up a BTT Pi 1.2 instead to run Klipper for me on my 0.2 build. The initial install went smoothly and I was up and printing in no time however when I connected the ADXL cable everything went downhill until I found the proper…
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At the very end of March Prusa Research announced their newest Printer the MK4 with a video of a Benchy printing on an their latest bed slinger aka i3 printer in under 20 minutes. That got me thinking. I have a very well tuned Creality Ender 3 S1 (not Pro but with upgrade effectively Pro).…