A while ago, i upgraded my NAS (which was running a Banana Pi) to a Mainboard/CPU, that despite it's age was more capable.
As an exercise i wanted to build a Rack mounted Server Case from Scratch, so here it is!
Took me on ~ 3 Months to design it entirely within #blender3d and manufacture it.
Except for the Frame and the Brackets almost everything is made on an #ender3
Dont mind the mess rn, i just wanted to show how the case looks :)

Finally finished the replacement of the old 8-bit board with 32-bit v 4.2.7 silent board on my Ender-3. I don't know how does the motherboard affect the silence of the 3D printer, but the difference is staggering. Before it was like a column of tanks riding through town, no all I can hear is the fan ... Looking soon to follow with the installation of CR-touch. I really need to step up my 3D printing game, have fallen behind a little bit in recent years ...

This afternoon I'm gonna be trying to restore my 3D printer, which has been sitting unused in my garage for more than two years. Wish me luck!

Here we go. A couple bucks worth of hardware and a couple hours of printing, and now I'm not feeding filament at an almost 90 degree angle.

Not a bad upgrade. IMO.

Forgot to post this Thanksgiving photo of me having a pleasant time with my family.

Has anybody got a Creality Ender 3 V3 SE? Better yet, has anybody upgraded from an Ender 3 Pro to an Ender 3 V3 SE? My local electronics store has a decent discount on them (they're actually beating Amazon :O) and I'm tempted for the sake of that out of the box direct drive and bed levelling.

Ender 3 Plotter Attachment for Printing Onto Cassettes - One way to look at FDM 3D printers is as machines that turn filament into three-di... - https://hackaday.com/2024/03/09/ender-3-plotter-attachment-for-printing-onto-cassettes/ #3dprinterhacks #plotter #ender3

I recently upgraded from my perpetually broken #ender3 to a #bambup1s and wowwwwww.

I feel like I was driving a go kart that I had built myself and now I bought myself a Porsche. The price increase was similar

Suddenly printing is fun again! It just works. Nothing goes wrong. All the features I want are there and work perfectly. All the models I wanted to print but never did because I knew they wouldn’t come out right on my old printer I can finally print! And it’s FAST.

Got tired of flailing about trying to find the right allen key / hex key in my Ender 3 tool set, so I made some labels. They came out okay (particularly for being so low effort xD ) so enjoy:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6448562

I started seeing occasional ripples on my prints that looked like ringing but a little not? and today I printed something for someone that looked like ringing but was literally in the middle of a long-X-axis path and repeating on every layer despite the shape of the object not conforming to that repeat _at all_

and now I know a new way to diagnose a bad wheel bearing!

the good news is moving the bad one to the underside of the X-axis gantry solved it for now. also one of the other wheels is on its way out too. :/

the other good news is that these are cheap, but it's annoying that I lost one bearing entirely and was losing a second at the same time.

Printing on my Ender 3 for the first time in about a year. I only turn it on when I need to print something that won't fit on the Minion. It scares me, to be perfectly honest. You see those forward-facing eyes? This thing's a predator.

I also printed a Giant LEGO Crystal, also glows in the dark, of course.

Model: https://www.printables.com/model/101067-giant-lego-crystal
Printer: Creality Ender 3 Pro
Filament: Extrudr Glow in the Dark PETG

My 3D printer hasn't even shipped yet and I already have a queue of prints I want to do and am trying to figure out how to set up an OctoPi with a webcam to handle remote management of the thing

discovering the dumb way that my slicer is not aware of my extensively upgraded ender 3 V2's printsafe-to-edge modifications

definitely need to fix that though it won't really hurt anything on this print since I think it's only cutting off brim

10-Foot High 3D Printer Based on Ender 3 - There are two main ways to 3D print large things. You can either make lots of smal... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/29/10-foot-high-3d-printer-based-on-ender-3/ #3dprinterhacks #dougdimmadome #buildvolume #3dprinter #ender3

#3Dprinter users of Mastodon. Do you have a pointer on how to resolve a "thermal runaway" error on fairly new Ender 3 Pro printer?