I built myself a 400x400x500 CoreXY machine from scratch.
Honestly, my prints are dogshit unless I go slow, and then sometimes they're dogshit anyway. I have found the entire exercise as one of futility and massive frustration... but I low key love fucking with it. I can't help myself, I keep building upgrades and improvements for it. I keep sinking time and energy I don't have (and cash that I do) into this fucking heap of shit and I can't help but love it to pieces. It's dumb as fuck and it's pretty fun to work on.
Honestly the vibes are about the same for a project car. Don't daily it or you will hate yourself, but if you put it together and tune it right, you'll have a blast.
I signed up for it last night for exactly that reason.
Not an answer I was expecting, but one I'm glad to see
I appreciate that John Ottiver is packing heat.
Nope, not at all! You've got it right.
I'm definitely a 1, and generally I don't. I do, however, really like interactive fiction in both work safe and non work safe contexts. I think I really enjoy being able to visualize it in my mind more than I do watching it.
I'm not sure if it factors into your pet theory, but I'm asexual so the appeal of physical forms is also very lost on me. That's a different can of worms that I'm happy to open if interested, but I'll leave it be if not.
Oh rad! Keep your eyes peeled for conventions!
Speaking of, Anthrocon actually just wrapped up this year. You should go next year! It's always a blast!
Ah, well, fair. Would have made for a great story! 🙂
Hey, I hear repeated sounds of exoskeleton bumping into glass. You wouldn't know anything about that, would you?
In all seriousness though, that's a very cute piece!
A big swing, but I'm genuinely rooting for you.
Hey y'all, I managed to hack together a printer from scratch and I'm struggling to get it to print well. It's a CoreXY system that's being controlled by a Octopus 1.1. Dual z screws, the works.
I have it moving under it's own power and all. It's able to actually print, but the results are atrocious.
I'm just trying to diagnose what's wrong here.
The bottom/first layer actually looks kinda good. It's just completely shredding subsequent layers.
Any advice would be appreciated!
I'm not ready to make the jump to Klipper just yet. I want to iron out hardware issues first.
I have a couple important takeaways. First, build the damn thing to be actually rigid out of the box. I thought I could keep it cheap with only 2020 extrusions, but I'm honestly paying a helluva lot more to add some stiffness to it.
Second, plan for your wiring at any given point to double. I got really tidy with my wiring at first and now it's an absolute nightmare. I gave up and half of it dangles off the back on the floor. It works but I really could have done a lot better with some better planning. It is truly a shameful sight.
I did add an extra pair of motors to the Z axis, bringing me to a grand total of four. I'm waiting on some stepper drivers to get it going again.
I don't have any pictures on hand, but could take some later.