Ackschually, you don’t need to print them entirely sideways for structural integrity. Printing at an angle should also work and you don’t get so many artifacts from support material.

Can confirm. So far I’ve gotten an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, docking station and a stand for it so it can be used as a laptop as well while traveling.

It certainly has issues but it’s an impressive device.

Nice to hear! At the moment the spindle, if it has the right to be called that, is a 775 motor with a chuck attached to it. Which is good enough for circuit boards and wood. Perhaps aluminium is doable as well as long as the feed rate is kept slow enough.

Should milling steel ever be on the table I’ll make a larger machine and will use leadscrews on X and Y instead of belts and perhaps dual Z motors.

I’ve also designed the build around materials that were readily available such as the 18mm X rails. Apparently they’re quite obscure since they aren’t sold on typical Chinese webshops.

Thanks! Indeed the Z axis rests on only one MGN9H block. For stability it can be changed to two sliders per rail at the cost of work area. For circuit boards and wood it should be strong enough to handle the load.

As for github/launchpad, I never used those before for sharing anything. I will look into those.

Nice! Once you get the hang of it FreeCAD is quite pleasant to use in my experience. I’ve updated the OP with a gdrive link.

I’ve designed it partially by importing step files of commercial parts such as the stepper motors, aluminium extrusions etc. They can be found on sites like grabcad. You can just make a throwaway account there since you need to sign up to download anything. At least it’s free…

I’ve updated the OP with a Google drive link.

Okay now tell me where bull milk comes from.

I use a small hotplate at about 125 degrees and an aluminium baking tray. If you spread the beads out thinly it will dry pretty quickly.

Alternatively you can use an old microwave and that should remove moisture from the silica gel in a matter of minutes. You can easily overheat them though and I would never use that microwave for food again.

This belongs in What We Do In The Shadows.

Time to cherry pick some workers.

I was looking for the pattern as well.

A meme about a meme about memes. Impressive.

I just use tweezers and a blue flame lighter. Heat it for 5 seconds then put it in the plastic. Then use the back of the tweezers as a flat surface to push it all the way in and level it.

This worked well so far and I really don’t see the need for a special soldering iron bit or a press like this.

I played it too.

Would you like to know more?

I got an Orbiter 1.5 extruder and have been quite happy about it since. These days you’d be better off getting an Orbiter 2. As for the toolhead, there should be Ender 5 compatible mounts available on Printables or Thingiverse, if not you could design your own.

Creality also has its own direct drive, the Sprite Pro. That may be worth looking in to as well.

You can import a STEP model of both the Ender 5 and whatever mod you want to make to it and model your toolhead around it, that is what I did with the Mercury One project.

It’s worth the effort imo.

Duolingo is so stupidly annoying these days. It has gotten so much worse compared to a few years ago.

Constant bugging, too many popups that are almost as bad as Microsoft products. I want to learn a goddamn language not jump through a hundred hoops every single time.

Not to mention that it all boils down to a guessing game. Some questions have multiple answers and unless you choose that specific one that DuoLingo had in mind it counts as wrong. It also won’t tell you why you guessed wrong.

Are there better apps these days?

2025 as well.

It’s not bad I would say. Right now I’m making a dedicated CNC for these kind of things and have the 3D printer just 3D print.

Here’s an example of a result from the laser cutter attachment.

And here’s a result of the plotter addon: