Everything on 3D printing, modding, designing and many attempts at that.
Would you look at that? It’s well over 2 years since I did my first serious modding to the Ender 5 plus. A lot happened since then. I had quite some construction work to the house and had to store my printers elsewhere, then became father again. Safe to say, I had other priorities. Those priorities haven’t changed that much, but I am getting more time to do some printing… and modding.
Although I am all for the “Don’t fix it, if it’s not broken” mantra, I upgraded my Ender 5 plus even though it was in a working state. I’m quadrupling the bits!
I’ve started my 3d printing journey with M3D’s Crane Quad. A crowdfunded multicolor printer. And, to be honest, it never reached its potential. At least not for me. In the facebook community groups, I have seen plenty of working examples. However, every time I fix the crane and it starts Read more…
I’ve been running 3D printers for some time now. It’s a difficult subject, especially getting prints to look great out of the box off the machine. I’ve been running a Creality Ender 5 plus for close to a year now, and I’ve had my M3D Crane Quad, also known as Read more…
The thing I love about my hobbies and, in general, everything I post here is a tight connection between the three dimensions. (hence the .xyz extension of this site) Another aspect of my daily work life is creating software. I am working as a GIS Developer for a company called Read more…
One thing has to be said about Creality3D’s Ender 5 plus… She aint quiet. I love the printer though, it’s a fresh breath compared to the M3D Quad. I am actually able to finish prints and they look and feel good. But, for some weird reason (*cough*money*cough) Creality decided to Read more…
As my Quad is constantly under tests, I felt the urge more and more to have something… less experimental… and just work. No offense, the Crane Quad is a great machine, but hard to control. The Crane community on Facebook is creating mods left and right to fix various design Read more…
After my last post, I tried some more prints in PETG. I tried to create more Fan Shrouds, but not all of them went well. In fact, I started getting clogs again. The print would go fine, then it would clog and stop extruding… It looked like the nozzle was Read more…
As I mentioned before, the M3D Crane owners group on facebook is filled with minds far brighter then mine. Obviously, being a 3d printing group, it’s filled with heavy modders. From that, the Quaden setup came, but also constructions with top fans, better fan shrouds and basicly everything you can Read more…
I made a leap in 2018. I crowdfunded a 3d printer, M3D’s Crane. I chipped in for the Crane Quad and it took a long time to be delivered. More then a year I waited, pondering in the mean time if I shouldn’t buy a simple printer to play with. Read more…