Cupcake155 has a few augmentations that I find to be very helpful, they are: Z-Wobble Inhibitors (designed by me) Cooling fan with mount adapter Filament Debris Filter Z-Wobble Inhibitors Folks have long-since designed Z-dewobbers for the Cupcake & Thing-o-matic, but when I went to use them, I had a brutal time finding …
Read MoreThe DeltaFlyer printer is my implementation of an oversized Kossel Mini type delta printer. Specs1000mm towers with 360mm sides Current effective build volume is 180mm (dia) x 500mm (height) Delrin rollers Smoothieboard controlled OctoPi interfaced - modified to also provide a private wifi network for use during travel …
Read MoreHere’s ancient stuff from dawning.ca that I didn’t want to delete, but I stopped updating/maintaining a long time ago. [subpages]
Read MoreWith Cupcake155 running fairly smoothly, I opted to typically drive it via Octoprint. I use a Raspberry Pi Model A+ with Wifi. This works great. After a few months printing like this, I found I’m constantly annoyed by visibility; I can’t see WTF’s going on in my print-area. Illuminatrix Illuminatrix is my lighting …
Read MoreWith the printer running at all following episode 2, all that remains is endless optimization. The largest problem I ran in to after months of printing was my printer kept slipping, particularly during really complicated prints. Thus introducing offsets in to my prints! Common causes of slips \t- Print bed isn’t square …
Read MoreThe first phase of my 3D printing project was to get my machine’s motion resurrected. The second phase, this phase, was to get it printing again; check. Cupcake155 printing in 2015 Here’s proof that it’s working: RAMBo Board I picked up a RAMBo v1.1 board from RepRapElectro, after receiving a lot of very helpful …
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