Project Updates for 8/2/2018

I'm so awful. I revised the design again, so I cancelled my order, uploaded the new design, chose the Super Swift service which takes up to 5 days instead of 12, but doubles the cost. and resubmitted it Also, I went with free shipping because I found they were actually pretty close to where I live and the shipping time would be very fast anyways. It has already gone into production now, so there won't be any more changes, but I'm actually pretty happy with how it ended up. If there turns out to be a major design flaw, at least I know it will only cost me $7.30 and a week of waiting.

On a different note, I discovered that my local library offers free access to Lynda.com and they have a great course on debugging 3D Printer issues and one of the things they mentioned is trying out some different software (many of which I didn't realize was available).. Also, a possibility is that my extruder motor doesn't have enough power and it's under-extruding as a result. That's probably the first thing I'll try the next time I fire up the printer.

Also, another fun project in the future may be to hook up my Raspberry Pi to the 3D printer and install OctoPrint on it and then I can print over the network from other computers. I would want to get it printing much more consistently first though.

Posted in Old Posts 02 Aug 2018