4lan
@4lan@lemmy.world
- Comment on 3D Print Farm Talk - Should You Upgrade? - Some Experience with Old vs New Machines 4 months ago:
I run a small online store and make between $400 and $1,000 a month in profit.
I sell specialty phone cases that connects Razer jungle cat controllers like a switch. Also Galaxy fold cases that hold the new s pen. Other stuff too
Frogcase.store
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Amazon when I got mine, always check the other options sometimes they hide better deals
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I actually make junglecat cases for the Samsung z fold series!
I plan to make more for other phones too.
I sell my stls and prints frogcase.store/…/z-fold-3-junglecat-controller-ca…
These controllers are super cheap since the 3 phones it works with are so old now. You can get them for like $30!
- Comment on Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads 4 months ago:
Exactly, playing on people’s ignorance like current talk show on-the-street segments do.
- Comment on 4hr 40m Benchy! 4 months ago:
yeah I saw people were doing that with PETG and PLA. I haven’t tried it yet but good to know that’s in my back pocket if I need it.
Also soluble supports are a thing, although they might be trickier and more expensive
- Comment on Turned my Prusameters into this nice Printables T-Shirt. 4 months ago:
got myself a free spool a while back! unfortunately shipping cost as much as a kilo from amazon lol
It was good filament, but honestly not enough to make me buy it over others
- Comment on 4hr 40m Benchy! 4 months ago:
1min30sec for every color change. Multiply that by hundreds of color changes and it adds up!
I am starting to see why people usually print whole plates full of multicolor prints. It’s the same amount of color changes, but more way more efficient.
- Comment on 4hr 40m Benchy! 4 months ago:
Yeah that is pretty cool how Bambu is dealing with it too, but not the same as having full root access to the Linux computer that runs the printer.
I can SSH into my K1 and change things, install programs, etc. I even changed my Start_Print sequence to stop doing all the time-consuming calibration for every print. Sometimes I am just prototyping and dont want 10 min of calibration for a 3 minute print.
- Comment on 4hr 40m Benchy! 4 months ago:
I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. The size of the max has been useful already. did 298mm tall print that would be impossible on those printers
- Comment on 4hr 40m Benchy! 4 months ago:
no, this was a print for myself to test the Chameleon. I don’t sell any multicolor prints as of now.
I prefer non-proprietary parts and unlocked software you get with a rooted K1. I can edit my klipper configs directly.
This is not my multicolor-specific machine. It will be used mostly for single color regular prints
- Comment on 4hr 40m Benchy! 4 months ago:
Just don’t pay MSRP! They often go on sale for $700. Got mine for $680 before tax!
If you do pull the trigger, here is my Creality slicer profile for quiet, yet fast, printing: lemmy.world/post/10712707
- Comment on 4hr 40m Benchy! 4 months ago:
good question, this was just a test print honestly. My main use case will be doing TPU and PLA for phone cases for my store. Soft inside, hard outside. The tests I have done have the two materials completely fused together and are promising.
most full color prints can, and should, be printed separately and assembled later. I totally agree there, but there are times that isn’t ideal.
I made a print that was a dial and small numbers with markings. This would have been a pain to glue 1.5mm wide pieces onto the main part. Multicolor printing made it super easy and the result is clean looking.
- Comment on 4hr 40m Benchy! 4 months ago:
You can use any slicer you like. I have mine connected to Cura, Creality and Prusa slicers with the ability to send and start a print right from the slicers.
I never once set mine up with their Creality cloud app, you can skip that during setup and just do LAN and USB prints.
The key is to root it, which is really easy, then you can install Fluidd and have way more control during prints. You can even change your pressure-advance on the fly. There are tons of mods you can do after rooting such as these
from the looks of this post you can now use octoeverywhere on K1 printers
- Comment on 4hr 40m Benchy! 4 months ago:
Overall I love it. If you are into tinkering, which it sounds like you are, you’ll like it.
My K1 is about 4x faster than my modded ender 3. I print at 420mm/s max speed on my K1 with 20k mm/s2 max acceleration. It is amazing how fast things finish. Overnight prints are now day prints.
You can get near-perfect prints out of the box, but will want to do some calibration to get better results. There are built in calibration tools in the Creality slicer. There is a VFA problem, but it seems to go away if I print walls above 220mm/s. Printing with polycarbonate is now fully possible and I love it. I print most replacement parts for the printer in PC.
This thing is fully able to be modded, which I love about it. I’ve added:
- second side aux fan
- lighter printed hotend housing
- side-spool mounts
- tramming bed knobs
- 270deg door hinge
- lid-riser with LED strips inside
- Comment on 4hr 40m Benchy! 4 months ago:
Yeah it’s not the prettiest lol. This is 75% size, and 0.25mm layers, which doesn’t help. (I just wanted to shorten print time)
I had to use Prusa Slicer because of the custom GCode features, so my settings there are not perfect yet. It also isn’t controlling the aux fans properly like Creality slicer.
My normal 1 color benchies are 22 minutes and absolutely perfect, using my finely tuned Creality Slicer profile.
- Comment on 4hr 40m Benchy! 4 months ago:
very. I spent the last 3 weeks fiddling with the timing. If you are not willing to troubleshoot and work on it I’d go for a ready-built solution like the AMS. I like the challenge, but definitely underestimated it
Most of it was me not fully understanding what was happening in the filament swap gcode. Once I understood that I was able to tweak settings to make it work. Once I found out certain filaments are just trouble I have had better luck. Still working on getting it to be less picky.
the updated version in April is going to have sensor-less detection of where the filament is in it’s path, which will make timing a non-issue. Any Chameleon sold until then will have the hardware needed, and can be updated for free in April.
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- Comment on Marlin M104 command waits?? 5 months ago:
Klipper is the way. No more compiling firmware to make changes, you just edit a config file and restart, which takes 3 seconds.
Are you sure you need a different board though? Might be able to flash klipper with your stock board
- Comment on Bedside Charging Pad (phone + watch + vape) 5 months ago:
it feels awesome to make something useful that you know would never be produced at scale by any company. I’m years into printing but never lose the sense of wonder I get turning ideas into physical objects.
- Comment on New (Open Box) Ender 3 Blue Screen 5 months ago:
reminded me of that too. He should be able to flash back to stock firmware though
- Comment on Looking on advice on how to print this case 5 months ago:
- 20-50%
- PLA should be fine, maybe PLA+. You can sand and fill both
- Mirroring is a simple button-click in the slicer, very easy to do
- no, but I’d contact a maker-space or find a person with one you can have print it. It will be cheaper that way. I am in the US or else I would offer to print for you.
- Comment on Creality K1 / K1 Max Quieter Slicer Profile 5 months ago:
That’s funny, I have a CR10 as well!
but yeah, the K1 and Max are just as loud as Bambu printers. It sounds kind of like someone is vacuuming when its at full blast lol.
I actually added a second side-fan to my K1 Max using this.
Overall I think you’ll love the Max, just be sure to shop around for deals. I got mine for $680 instead of $900, don’t pay full MSRP!
Also, here is my FAST profile that is loud but impressively fast.
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- Comment on SSD prices predicted to skyrocket throughout 2024 — TrendForce market report projects a 50% price hike | Tom's Hardware 5 months ago:
so they are treating computer parts like diamonds now? Faking supply shortages to increase demand, therefore prices?
Capitalism is so efficient.
- Comment on Holiday Decoration 2024 6 months ago:
It’s that time of year to prove you love your family by spending money
- Comment on Forget about PEI beds - we've got PEY now! - Made with Layers (Thomas Sanladerer) 6 months ago:
funnily I received my identical carbon-fiber surface the day before this video came out.
I had been faking carbon-fiber texture on my phone cases I sell using CAD alone. This is a much better solution for me, no extra modelling for each version.
Adhesion is worse, but nothing a little glue stick can’t fix.
- Comment on Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy 6 months ago:
Thats a fair point, i only notice it when trying to watch Korean movie. Thats not often for me, but i could see it being an issue if you use them often
- Comment on Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy 6 months ago:
You can set your download options in Sonarr and Radarr so that you only get certain filetypes and certain bitrates. This can keep you from filling your drive with 10GB+ 4k movies if you don’t need that quality too
- Comment on Got my early Christmas present. I hope I like it. 6 months ago:
that’s a decent reason if you switch nozzles often. I leave a 0.6mm on my K1 Max permanently, best of both worlds