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Category: Tech
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Custom stepper towers for Mercury one.1
I have had to make a variation of the stepper motor towers for the mercury “one.1” 3D printer. Its an awesome design, and iI have found it to be a brilliant 3D printer. However when I turn up the speed, I found the belts have on occasion rode up the idlers on the metal dowel…
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PEY print surface tests
I’ve seen a few posts about using the new micro textured print surfaces that give coloured reflections on the surface of the print. Given the efforts converting the Ender 5 into a ZeroG, it felt it would be worth the investment. As you can tell by the results, it’s rather impressive! The only downside is…
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DIY filament runout sensor
I wanted to get a filament runout sensor for my Mercury ZeroG, but didn’t want to buy a cheap of the shelf one that would ultimately fail. So made one using a Creality end stop switch. I liked the concepts of the ones online, however I wanted to use a Y-adaptor so I can have…
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Simplyprint.io
Giving this web application a try, keeping a remote eye on both my printers while I’m out and prints in progress is handy. I have to say, this is impressive, I’d imagine extremely handy for those running a print farm. Even the mobile app is pretty good, providing a summary at one glance. Initial setup…
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Gearing up
My 2016 VW Tiguan’s gear knob’s leather was getting worn and felt rough, it’s not a big deal but it’s irritating me enough to do something about it. A friend offered to retrim it, providing the option to customise it, but I’m still playing with the idea. However, I would have to buy another anyway…
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Orange Pi-hole
If you don’t know, Pi-Hole is a small operating system /software based on Linux used to block online adverts. It’s brilliant when installed on a Raspberry pi. I used to have a pi-hole but it was on an actual raspberry-pi zero which I ended up repurposing to make a Pwnagochi. Raspberry Pis -of any variety-…