Bought a T16000 and TWCS HOTAS to replace an old T.Flight. It's an improvement but on the throttle there's no stop at 50% which I'd like so I can use it for full range forward and reverse thrust. Thankfully clever people have printing solutions. Printed this and it works pretty well. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4194431 But then I found this so I'm giving it a go tonight. https://makerworld.com/en/models/881794-thrustmaster-twcs-throttle-detents-25-50-75#profileId-836092 It looks more useful for Elite Dangerous which is what I'll be using it for the most. Interestingly I thought I'd try printing in PETG (bright orange!). Although not officially supported by my printer I ramped up the nozzle and bed temps and it seems to be doing just fine. Maybe better than some of the PLA filaments I usually use.
Elegoo have just announced they're open-sourcing the RFID tag system they'll use with their upcoming filament switcher! https://www.elegoo.com/en-gb/blogs/news/elegoo-rfid-ecosystem-feedback-solicitation https://github.com/ELEGOO-3D/ELEGOO-RFID-Tag-Guide
Nice, good to see. Whether or not anyone else adopts the standard remains to be seen however. I do agree with this issue however: it would be good to have printing parameters encoded in the tag - temps, flow rate, etc. You’d only be talking about ~6-8 bytes: 2 bytes for min temp, 2 bytes for max temp, probably only one byte for bed temp, one for flow rate.
I really want an amount printed/amount remaining! Ultimaker has had RFID tags the longest and this is a frustratingly missing feature!
That’d be a bit more complicated for an RFID tag, wouldn’t it? Presumably whatever is storing/holding the filament would now also have to write new data to the tag… I suppose you could calculate it in the filament unit on a per tag basis, but it’d have to write that data constantly so it can keep track during power cuts.
Problem is though, if you’re making that part of an open standard that you want everyone else to adopt, you have now created a dependence on an online service that has to be maintained and paid for. Far easier to keep all required information locally in the tag itself. But, in principle, it would be nice to have a better estimate of how much filament remains on a spool!
Some may call me mad in this time of commodity printers, but I've started building a Voron 2.4 All the parts are printed, I've got me an AliExpress kit - actually good quality, Hiwin rails, MeanWell power supply - and I'm 90 pages into a 270 page assembly manual. So why, you might ask yourself, am I building a printer when there are some excellent well-built machines from all the usual names? Two reasons: (1) I've always wanted to build a Voron, and now I have the means to be able to do so; (2) Because I've gone for the 350x350 bed option. That 100mm of extra space makes a massive difference. It also means I can print large things like helmets whole rather than having to split them into parts. Oh, and another reason: Because I can I know this won't appeal to everybody, but I love tinkering with printers. Every printer I've owned (the Voron will be FDM printer number 6 ) has been upgraded in some way, including the P1S. The resin printers are harder to upgrade because they're all tied to Chitu in some way and there aren't any open source equivalents available. If I was more mechanically inclined, I'd do the same to my cars...but printers are cheaper!
Gridfinity is bloody handy. Still need about 11 more bins in order to fit a couple of screw sets I've had for donkey's years. But the print time is a bit tied up at the moment...
You'd hate one of the sculptors I subscribe to on Patreon. They produce 2-3 sculptures, 2-3 busts, a diorama & a ship or weapon every month for my £8.50 subscription. See https://www.patreon.com/c/starwars3dmodels/posts
You’re right, I probably will hate it I’ve not really been fussed about 3D printing replica/cosplay-type stuff, but when I watched Andor his blaster pistol immediately stood out and initially I couldn’t figure out why. And it wasn’t just because its rotating “magazine” looks cool on-screen. The design was derived from the blaster pistol used by Kyle Katarn in the Dark Forces & Jedi Knight games. In those early games it was simply called the “Bryar pistol”, but it later appeared in the Battlefront games as the K-16 Bryar. The K-16 was used as the main design reference for Andor’s blaster, and Andor’s blaster was designated the MW-20 Bryar pistol. So its lineage goes back to some memorable and quite ground breaking Star Wars games. The character Kyle Katarn was clearly a massive inspiration for Cassian Andor, which wasn’t exactly new information to me, but it was kinda neat to learn that Andor’s pistol stood out for the same reason.
On my way back from Scotland and I've just had a message saying my Elegoo shipment has been delivered!! Woohoo. No. Wait. It's just the extra filament. Faaaark!
According to the subreddit, deliveries have been speeding up so you shouldn't have to wait much longer.
Yeah, people have been printing baffles to reduce fan noise, but I'm not sure what has been addressed in the update log - it mentions fixing the issue with the fan running full speed even after the printer has stopped, but I don't know about general noise. I've seen one or two vids showing it and didn't think it was bad. If it is loud, I'll swap out the fans or mod some sort of resistor cable like a LNA for a PC fan.
