Yes - so useful. I’ve been using one for a number of years and it’s definitely the best way to do cad
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Doing some recycling. Saw a video from CNCkitchen about a company that takes old prints and turn them into new filament… I have a LOT of old printed stuff from prototyping. So much that I considered making my own filament. This is much easier and faster though. 
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That’s cool I’ll be interested to see how it comes out! Will it be a cool multicolor roll?
It’s more of a “If you’re gonna throw it away, please give it to us instead. here is a shipping label” kinda thing.
You can buy recycled filament from them though.
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What company is it?
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Saw this model on Thingiverse and had to print it. My kids want to play tic tac toe on every menu/paper they come across at restaurants while waiting for food and such. This should help! Small enough to fit easily in my wife’s purse. First time using this “rock white” PLA and it came out really cool. I like it a lot.
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I have a printer from 2019 (the alfawise u30pro which is as far as I know a rebranded Longer k40 or something like this) I’ve moded it in time with autolevelling, ruby nozzel and pei bed, then it stayed unused for a couple of year because It wasn’t working so good and I was lazy,
I recently put it back in working order and I’m wondering if there is a point into wasting a few hours to update the software it runs to something more recent and potentially buy a modern motherboard for it ?
Would it really change something ?
I’m currently running whatever version of marlin was out in 2019/2020 when I added the bed levelling probe
(@Venom121212 you are my reference person for 3d printing)
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I’m of the mindset “if it works it works.”
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I shouldn’t be your reference person, but my 2c are similar to Justin: the motherboard is probably fine as is and the slicer will make a bigger difference.
Unless you want to go for a fairly big (and slightly annoying) upgrade to something like klipper that can handle more on-device computational work - input shaping or other resonance compensation, and some creature comforts like remote file uploads and maybe webcam monitoring. I did on a similar machine, and I’m fairly happy now, but it was a hell of a lot of time and frustration
@Plurf because I forgot to actually reply to your post
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@Venom121212 @mr.shiteside yeah I thought the same then I saw the klipper thing and thought that maybe I missed a big revolution at somepoint.
Good point for the slicer, I am probably still using the same version of cura I set up back then, I’ll start by updating that
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The amount of upgrades that actually have yielded print quality improvements are pretty nil across the board. I’ve seen upgrading destroy more printers and take more people out of the 3d printing world than dig them deeper.
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Eh, the stans will disagree but it’s not a huge revolution to me. My print quality is a little better and quite a bit faster, but I’m still hamstrung by not being great at CAD or careless with slicing or a bunch of other things. It’s not a panacea
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Worst part about klipper is sourcing a damn raspberry pi right now. I looked into it for my Ender but decided against it.
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Yeah I went with bigtreetech’s motherboard because you can buy their Pi knockoffs for like $30 and slot it directly into the board and it comes with FW for both fairly easily
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damn thats a nice cube
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Need some help. Artillery sidewinder printer, direct extruder. Had it for 4 years now, works great. The other day it started to under extrude, so I assume nozzled clogged or PTFE tube is bad. Changed both. It still feels like it is under extruding. If I have the bed too close, nothing comes out. If I move the bed just 0.05 mm, it won’t stick to the bed. If it does print the first layer, then the lines are really thin and not touching.
Printing pla… printed half a roll already and then this issue started. Never had such a hard time with bed distance. In the gcode, before each print, it extrudes a line of filament. This line is normally pretty thick, now this line is thin also. Out of ideas, anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
Thanks in advance.
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I used this guy to learn as well! His tutorials are fantastic, 100% recommend