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Week 4: 1/22/2017

A project log for 2017: A Year of Hacking

Daily log of the my projects, ideas, tips, failures, etc.

eric-moyerEric Moyer 01/23/2017 at 04:320 Comments

Rather that create a log for the week and then edit it everyday I decided to make a new log for every time I post. My goal is to provide daily updates/progress of what I have going on. Up to this point about half of my updates have been only on my phone so editing an already existing log and additional information has presented issues.

Yesterday I received the Monoprice Select Mini 3D printer and it has blown me. As I mentioned yesterday I was set-up, bed leveled and printing in under an hour. I actually didn't finish the first print since I had dinner plans and did what to leave it running unattended. After dinner I came back, restarted the program from the beginning and had a almost perfectly printed cat in 3 hours. The partial cat next to it was the progress I had made at the 1 hour 20 minute mark from receiving the printer.

I am trying to determine if I am going to start new "project" page for my 3d printer since there are plenty of great projects for the printer already on Hackaday.io. Near term I will just use my daily posts to keep you up to speed on the 3D printing news.

Currently I have a "upgrade" printing. If just a simple radius to add to the filament roll holder so the filament feeds easier.

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