I know, I should be doing other stuff. More important stuff but you know, sometimes you need a break. This is what I came up within my “break”. Currently building a Skeleton3D printer. Found out that the z axis construction is not sturdy enough for the print bed I intend to mount. This consists of…
How to fix a jamming and oozing Merlin Hotend
UPDATE: Post title update + Well I managed to transfer the Merlin hotend in it’s final state. The dead state. The tiny thread where the nozzles go is damaged. I am not able to tighten them. This is an definite kaputt-state. Nevertheless this guide below should be helpful. For my current WIP printers I was…
How to upload Firmware to Teensylu
Teensylu boards often ship with LUFA CDC pre-installed from China. While this is nice we still need to upload a firmware to the board. Unfortunately this is not as easy as Pi and using a modded Arduino IDE is necessary. This is because the board has an AT90USB1286 chip which has an USB converted integrated…
Wallace lost his head
The very first prints on new 3d printers tend to be somewhat nearly perfect here. Which is strange because first prints on new printers should look ugly, messy, not proportional and overall malformed. What then after some time happens is even more strange. With tweaking and tuning they start to look ugly and all of…