I programmed a esp32 with Wled and bought some cheap led strips on Aliexpress.
I lined the top and front sides of my enclosure with them.
I created a few different scenes in Wled.
Heating
Bed leveling
Printing
And complete
I then programmed custom g code in my start and end gcode to trigger each scene.
I like it because I can see what the printer is doing without referencing fluidd. There’s also plugins where you can have an LED strip act as a progress bar. I didn’t have the time to set that up but I love that idea for remote viewing.
I will try to grab a video of each scene when I get some time
I guess it’s time for “one of us”
If it all goes as planned this printer might be a worthy investment and one very nice business opportunity.
Long live opensource!
“Designed” a phone mount for my telescope. It’s heavily based on another design but fully recreated (hence the quotes around designed) but will hopefully fix some major issues I had.
The design I found is made for a really weird eyepiece size, and the only one that fit was my zoom eyepiece, which is not ideal. There were also some really odd choices for the nut captures, the length of things, etc. But the concept seemed to work well.
They didn’t publish STEP files, so I printed it out, modified it, marked my new sizes, and then recreated it in onshape. Added some extra strength to some spots, shortened others, etc.
This is the one that I printed and modified. The eyepiece can’t get very close to the phone due to the rails not fully extending (although flipping a part would have helped), the rail length was long enough to hit the scope so I had to trim it, the clamps weren’t tall enough, etc.
New one should be done printing in ~2 hours (thanks to my Bambu Labs P1S), hoping everything fits. It all fits in an OnShape assembly so here’s hoping
You just described like 90% of my prints or “designs”
I’m pretty meh at creating from scratch, but I’ll
Admit I’m pretty good at finding the bits and pieces of several different designs and putting it all together for what I want
Like if I wanted to mount an Amazon Alexa to your telescope, I’d find a good Alexa wall mount, and something that fits your telescope and start cutting and pasting parts in cad like a skilled barbarian
Haha. This was a fun challenge b/c I entirely used caliper measurements and rebuilt it from scratch, which was an exercise I haven’t done since high school, usually I’m just working from nothing.
I wish they had included STEP files, would have made it a lot easier. I’ll add some to mine to hopefully make it easier on the next guy.
Saw that. I’m honestly not sure how much I trust that. He hasn’t provided any proof of any of his accusations as far as I’ve seen. He’s gone on Bambu Lab rants before, despite the MK4 and Prusa XL still not being open source hardware (specifically claiming that the MK4 was no longer an i3 machine, specifically to skirt the license he created for the machines, requiring that the hardware be open-source).
He’s also talked about MakerWorld copying them, when Printables copied Thingiverse to a massive degree, and added print file uploads for Prusa machines. Now he’s annoyed that Bambu is doing the same?
Regardless of what Prusa has said, they seem to have implemented a decent copyright claim system on their site, and it’s functional. That’s a good sign IMO.
EDIT: Looked at their evidence on twitter, it looks like they’re primarily mad about their method of testing their import feature? They posted test models, and put a link in their Printables bio. The exact same workflow that Printables uses for thingiverse import… They had to have tested it a similar way when they build their import feature lmfao
It was extremely foggy/hazy outside, to the point where I couldn’t even see Jupiter at the end, and only got a little bit of footage to process, but here’s what I got of Jupiter:
