I’m contemplating what to do with my first 3D printer. Don’t have the space to keep it around, nor the inclination to try to keep it functioning properly. It wouldn’t be worth enough to ship it anywhere.

Today I discovered the OctoPod app (iOS, tvOS) for use with . Excellent way to monitor 3D prints. The tvOS app is surprisingly useful. Easy to see the camera and can leave it on while I work yet quickly see if the print has gone awry. Also it has some good built in notifications.

The articulated shark turned out well, shown here attacking an octopus 🐙 My Prusa MK3S+ kit is cranking out all kinds of prints without a care in the world.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3845304

😃 This PRUSA 3D printer is a dream. Proud I built it successfully.

All Gummies have been consumed!

Prusa kit builders know what this means. I finished building my MK3S+ kit and it passed the self test right away. Here is the obligatory first logo print. The build was a challenge but a fair one. I’m so happy with my decision to switch. 😁😎

🤔 Planning to finish my 3D printer today and hopefully get it calibrated

I had thought I might finish putting the printer together today but ended up well short. I ran out of gas and decided to call a halt until tomorrow. Weekend build here I come!

🦾 Got our daughter’s old computer desk loaded into my Outback ready to drop it off at Salvation Army

Started assembling my 3D printer this evening. Hoping I have time to finish it tomorrow but probably won’t have time to do calibration.

😃 Anxiously awaiting delivery of my new 3D printer

With all the hype I gave the Ivory app a try. But as they said it still needs work. Back to the more capable apps which are, IMO, equally worthy of attention

@ivory Does the app not honor server side filters? The app shows I have no filters but I have quite a few.

🥱 Watching gentle rain on a cold morning and feeling lazier (than usual)

That kind of day: ground the coffee beans, put a filter in, fired things up and… nothing but hot water was the result.

Missed that crucial step of actually putting the grounds in the filter. 😢

🪛 Recovering from carrying IKEA upstairs and assembling it

📪 Starting to learn PrusaSlicer for my incoming MK3S+

I enabled Stage Manager on my iMac a couple of weeks ago and we’re getting along pretty well. I use it in conjunction with two virtual desktops. I think it could be a lot better but it is good enough to leave enabled.

Rather fond of the dawn sky

A wild unicorn appeared!

My wife approves my purchase of a new 3D printer. She could easily understand because she went through something similar when she started sewing a few years ago. She started with a basic model but soon grew frustrated with it. Since she enjoyed sewing she ended up buying one that costs 3-4 times as much and has been quite happy.

🤫 New 3D printer ordered. Now a 2-3 week wait for it to arrive.

I've started looking into CoreXY printers. Building a Voron at this stage is a bit intimidating. The Creality 6 seems to be so-so. Having a hard time getting info on others. Definitely want something with either a great community or good vendor support including spare parts.😕

🤔 Going to experiment with the Gridfinity approach to 3D printed storage/lab

My recent frustrations with my low end 3D printer has me dreaming of a Prusa. Mainly because of their superior documentation and support. But the build plate is just a little too small. Hearing great things about Bambulab but they use proprietary parts and support is TBD.

I finally got my Sovol3D printer working decently again. It’s now well into a 12 hour print. It was not a fun process.

In other news, we got a new vacuum cleaner today. Thankfully it “just works”.