By Riyaz.com

Category: Tech

  • Custom stepper towers for Mercury one.1

    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…

  • PEY print surface tests

    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…

  • DIY filament runout sensor

    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…

  • Simplyprint.io

    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…

  • Gearing up

    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…

  • Orange Pi-hole

    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-…