This is a clone of an original MakerBot Replicator with dual extruders, yes it’s made out of wood. I’ve had it for about 12 years and tinkered with it a lot. I started having problems with it and it got set aside for bigger and better printers. I got bored and decided to bring it out again. The biggest challenge has been setting up start gcode. It also can’t run standard gcode and instead uses a different format. I’m running octoprint with the GPX plugin. I have never printed using both extruders so my goal is to do that.
I just wish you could use Orca with these.
greybeard@feddit.online 1 day ago
I’ve got a Makerbot Thing-O-Matic hanging around still. I’ve considered trying to get it running again, but it ran pretty terrible when new. Modern slicing might help a little, but I doubt it will save it from its own horrendously out of date design.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There is also sailfish firmware which iirc helps a lot plus using octoprint and modern slicing software. The only pain point is leveling the bed manually and not having a flexible bed plate so sometimes removing the print can be a pain. I used to get pretty good prints off of this clone.