Chebucto Regional Softball Club

I mean. I GUESS?

First print, a CaliCat, looks good!

Why does my 3D printer want to know my gender?

I'm setting up a new 3D printer. I say this just to keep a record for how long it takes until I want to throw it, too, into a lake

Random Death Generator History fact:
The second game to be added was SimCity 2000, added a little under two months later on Dec 18, 2017.

(The actual 8th year anniversary was yesterday, but I was too dead that day to remember to post about it)

happy Intersex Awareness Day, everyone, from VGAPride!

is there an easy way to turn a 3d printer into a cheap plotter? like, I tape a marker to the print head, and some program takes in an SVG and outputs the gcode to move around the print head so that it'll plot what I gave it?

Fun keyboard I discovered:
ArithmeType Calculus Keyboard!
https://specialneedscomputers.ca/products/calculus-keyboard?

okay I think my extruder is fucked. damn it, that's the most annoying part of this printer to access.

printing another calicat to see if that changed anything

the extruder is still difficult to reach

okay I tried switching to a different USB power supply (5v 2A) with thicker usb cables: No difference, still undervolting.

I also cold-pulled the hot end a few times, to see if that'll help.

I'm gonna try cold pulling next because that's easier than getting to the extruder

installed a USB power blocker to try and fix the undervolting. it didn't work.

So I'm gonna have to find another power supply for that

I need to upgrade the octopi install so I might switch to a newer pi. I have one somewhere, it's just probably up in my office where I can't really get to it (stairs)

Thanks to everyone who has given suggestions for how to fix this. Unfortunately most of them require me standing up for longer than I can manage, so I've mainly just fiddled with settings (since I can do that from my bed).

but when I can, I'll be:
* calibrating the extruder
* trying to clear clogs in the hot-end
* calibrating the z-axis offset (which is a multistep nightmare in this setup)

I need to throw away and replace every part of this setup and I don't have the time, money, energy, or space to do that

also octoprint is yelling that my pi is undervolting. I'm specifically using a dedicated 5v 2.5A wall-wart, how is it STILL undervolting? ugh.

So I foolishly started a 9-hour print and yeah it's still shit.