South West Makers

Nice work Paul

Hey everyone, Welcome Ross (Systern) to the Board

Saw this at the last meeting and must say it looks very professional.

Great job on the design.

A nice write up and and pretty cool solution.

Having to load a webpage to view the temperature data is pretty painful.

This makes it available at glance without running a full machine to display it.

OMG looks really cool. So much detail in the print.

Another item onto the wish list

Mainly because we have a fleet of 220 iPhones and 3 Samsung’s.

Just thought I'd update you on whats been going on, and why the other projects have pretty much stalled... Over the last month i have been teaching myself IOS App development. it began with the deployment of an API to access our maintenance management system a work. We can now securely transfer info...

Things I learnt today.

I was trying improve my top layers. I have always been a bit stingie on the infill and normally print at about 20% infill.

Today I tried 30% and found a great improvement.

That looks like a filter on your schools network.

They are not aware(haven't indexed) our site so they block it to be safe.

Try forcing it to https:// and see if that makes a difference.

PJ

DJCoopes wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 19, 2019 4:23 pm

would you consider putting the website link (SWMakers.org) on the back?

Thats is definitely as possiblity. I was already considering having "Maker"

they turned out extremely well! Well done Phil! I might have to do something like that myself. What do you do for drainage? Ummm. I had plans for drainage but didn’t put it in at the time. I can retro fit it now but the bed dries out quite quickly in summer. May be different when we get more rain

f course, one should NEVER use the same username and password combo for other sites. So in preparation for Paul's upcoming international excursions, I thought it was worth the effort to get the forum encrypted so he can have some piece of mind when logging in. I have now added a free lets encrypt S...

Well it seems like I’m getting somewhere. Vaze printed in “vase mode”. Looks almost perfect.

PS, I have to take some more photos from yesterdays efforts. The Benchy is looking much nicer after some more tweaking of the Slicer

Has anyone had any experience using CURA with their 3d printer? I haven't had any experience with it but I will soon be looking into it as it's the inbuilt slicer in the OctoPrint. Which, by the way, is the reason I need my printer printing reliably, I want to be able to set it and forget it during...

Closing in on the optimum slicer settings

Of course, there is more to the story. When I returned home with the printer, I still had a few issues. Immediately, I had issues with serious under extrusion. I had to revisit my slicer settings in Simplify3D. During my troubleshooting I had made changes which had to be reconfigured. As it was unde...

So I took my Felix 3D Printer along to the February South West Makers meeting st the Eaton Library. I had been speaking with Stephen about it at the December meeting. A couple of quick test prints and Stephen, Paul and Rob were onto the problem quickly. The problem was under extrusion and while prin...

Phillip brought it along last meeting and found that the extruder drive current was out

Yes, Thanks for the help, I'll need to find some time to update the thread.