tutorial Archives

Calibrating PID

February 15, 2023

Calibrate your 3D Printer heating capability to optimize and increase the quality of your prints when you are running Klipper.

How to get to your first print with Klipper.

February 13, 2023

3d Printing, klipper, tutorial

Get up and running with your first print on Klipper. This tutorial will get you from 0-Print in about an hour without any prior experience with Klipper required.

How to Improve the Resolution of a Raspberry Pi Camera or Clone for OctoPrint

January 28, 2023

3d Printing, tutorial

How to improve the resolution of a Raspberry Pi camera or clone for use with OctoPrint. The article outlines the steps for SSHing into the Raspberry Pi, determining the available resolutions, and updating the resolution in OctoPi’s configuration file.

2 ISPs 1 router – Ensuring your home is always connected.

January 28, 2022

home networking, tutorial

This summer, I set up a load-balancing router to have 2 ISPs on one home network to improve my internet connection. I found a cheap TP-Link router on Amazon, plugged in my Comcast and T-Mobile modems, and configured the router to keep one ISP per application and based it on bandwidth. I also set up failover if one connection failed. The internet has been flawless with the load balancing and we have a glut of bandwidth for conferencing, 4K streaming, and security cameras.