So I was thinking how to startup this blog section, and decided that just listing my hardware setup would probably be the best start.
I haven’t had a 3D printer for that long, and only have one at the moment of writing this post. I’ve always liked the concept, the idea of creating something ‘out of nothing’. Obviously, a lot of plastic fillaments, power, warmth, etc are being used in the proces. When I decided I wanted to jump on the bandwagon, I found a kickstarter-like project on a site called fitforlaunch.com who had a sweet deal on a new concept printer, the M3D Crane Quad. It took the guys over at M3D a sweet amount of time, but eventually, the machine arived.
The printer uses 4 strands of fillament and injects it into a single nozzle. By feeding certain amounts of each fillament, it’s capable of blending out a new color. Basically the concept of your good old Inkjet printer.
Now having to learn the basics of 3D printing and Quad printing as well, I decided to threat the machine a single fillament at first. Making sure the bed is level before going into the next steps.
When starting that next step, I found the motors to be too weak, and too buggy as well… In the meantime, some fellow Quad owners on FaceBook started on a mod now known as ‘The Quaden’, basically switching from the direct drive M3D motors to a bowden setup.
I’m now running the bowden setup as well. I will try to explain all that in more detail in upcoming posts.
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