Captains log, StarDate 3rd September 2019. Things are hotting up and getting quite frantic so this will have to be very quick post. The main board arrived last Monday (26th August) and I’ve got it wired up. For now, due to one or two unfinished firmware issues, the Z probe has to be connected to […]
Following on from a previous post, I’ve made further progress on changing over to the new Duet Generation (https://www.duet3d.com/). Progress has been slow up until now because it have been waiting for the hardware to arrive. The expansion boards which are prototype boards, arrived on Monday 19th so I have now been able to fit […]
Note. This post is about extruder micro-stepping when using a mixing hot end. None of the findings would be applicable to non-mixing, single filament input hot ends. Introduction Some time ago I posted my thoughts on why I believed that 16x micro-stepping was not a good setting to use with a mixing hot end. The […]
Readers will know that I have a strip of silicone rubber running across the back of my printer which is used to wipe the nozzle. Beyond this silicone strip is a “bucket”, which isn’t really a bucket because it has no bottom. Here is a picture of how it was. The silicone strip is the […]
If you have read my recent post about upgrading my extruder carriage, you will know that I intend to upgrade my printer to Duet Generation 3 electronics. There are three reasons for this. Firstly, it will enable me to use 13 stepper drivers which I will need in order to use both the load balancing […]
Hot filament and cold Coffee 