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I loaded the latest beta firmware with Input Shaper for the Prusa MINI and got some terrible artifacts in the corners. (The one on the right.) Tried the old print profile and that worked fine. (The one on the left.)
Finally getting around to doing some maintenance and upgrades to the Prusa MINI. New nozzle, textured plate, and at some point I'll add the WiFi module as well. (And beta firmware is out.)
I like the Bambu Lab P1S but I do still love the MINI, and now with two good printers I can screw around with upgrades and beta and still have a fully functional machine in the wings.
i'm finally running octoprint directly on my prusa mk3s+ via an installed/integrated raspberry pi zero 2 w and octopi. the hardest part was finding and buying the zero 2 w—thankfully they have been showing up in online inventories lately—and the 18mm breakable header. (i also had to hunt down the zero 2 w frame pattern that is a slight remix of the original frame—not linked because there might be some licensing issues in play.)
With Prusa pushing for arc g-code I really hope we are finally going to move out of STL (for parts designed on CAD only obviously).
It is a non-sense to go from a solid model with true arcs (like STEP) from CAD to STL that breaks the arcs and then tries to reconstruct the arcs afterward.
Curious if anyone has experience doing the #prusa mk3 to mk4 upgrade yet? This will be my most involved printer modification since I built the enclosure in the spring, curious if there are any aspects of the process folks have advice about? @3dprinting
Guess I know what I'll be doing for the next week or so.
The upgrade kit for my Prusa
MK3 -> MK4 was delivered yesterday.
First order of business...print the parts on my MK3, then bid it a fond farewell and tell it thanks for all the good things it printed. All the upgrade parts will take about 40 hours to print.
After that, the MK3 is mostly disassembled and the MK4 is built around the existing frame.
Finally got the upgrade to my #3dPrinter finished! It went very smoothly except trying to apply the stickers they sent for the LCD cover.
The sticker is supposed to be applied to left of the LCD display on the front of the cover. It came as individual letters instead of a single 1"x2" sheet! Really??
I'm looking forward to faster, better looking prints. Next order of business...put some kind of light on it so time lapse videos look good.
Since this was an upgrade kit and not an entirely new printer, I decided to part out the MK3S+ so if anyone is looking for some spare parts for their MK3 (cheap!), let me know what you need.
I've spent more time in PrusaSlicer, Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer, Ultimaker Cura, and Creality Slicer than I wanted to in the past week...
I'm sort of hoping I may be able to just use OrcaSlicer for the Bambu Lab P1S, Prusa MINI, and Creality Ender-3 S1.
Right now I am using Bambu Studio to slice for the Ender-3 but adding the Cura generated JPG manually to the Gcode. (I think OrcaSlicer may be able to do that automagically.)
Is there a foundation that develops the Marlin or Klipper firmwares? I guess it would make sense for slicer and formwares to belong in the same foundation
I’m exactly 50% of the way through the parts of my biggest #3dprinting project, and I’m at about 357 hours of printing and close to 4 kg. Flawless performance from my #prusa.
Even though I put the 5.1.0-alpha1 firmware on the Prusa MINI I didn't update the profile in Prusa Slicer to take advantage of it! (I had manually made changes to print faster.) That has been rectified and I am now printing with the proper profile to match the alpha firmware.
And it's fast, and quality seems pretty good so far... I'll keep an eye on it though.
Green benchy from the Bambu Lab P1S, white benchy from the Prusa MINI+ w/5.1.0-alpha1 firmware... The green is definitely a better print.
I got the Prusa about two years ago because I wanted better quality prints that I was getting from my old printer. I care more about quality that speed...
I'll try a slower print and see if the new firmware has better quality.
I’m gonna dip my toes into volunteering as a Flatpak/Flathub developer advocate—basically, providing a human contact at a real company that can help larger apps/companies get their apps in front of Linux (and thus Steam Deck!) users.
What are some of the biggest apps you think are missing from Flathub—or for apps already there, which are the ones you’d like to see verified?
@cassidy That's great, thank you for your work!
I'd like to see https://getupnote.com on #flathub… they already support AppImage and Snap, but didn't like something with flatpaks. It bothers me, but I'm not very good at convincing people.
From #apps not verified but present, I'd like to suggest #Signal, Simplenote, Inkscape, Mega and #Prusa Slicer (in this order).