Motivation In this article I will show you five reasons why you might need an Octopi for your Prusa 3d printer Monitoring Owning a 3d printer is not subtle: you need a good amount of space and the printer generates a lot of noise. So a separate room or a place in the basement are…
Motivation Fiddling around with octoprint I figured that I needed a case and holder for the Raspberry Cam Cam case Printables.com for the rescue: Sneaks has a lot of cool designs and I fell in love with the Articulating Raspberry Pi Camera Mount for Prusa MK3 and MK2 The parts Here you can see all…
When you are new to 3d printing your first prints will likely fail or not produce the desired results right away. Here are 5 common issues with 3d printing. Heatbed dirty When you do not clean the heatbed properly before a print you may encounter issues with the adhesion. So please clean the heatbed before…
Before I got my first 3D printer I wondered why everyone printed this little cute looking boat called Benchy. And guess what I’ve printed first after I’ve assembled my Prusa i3 MK3S+ ? Of course, a Benchy 🙂 History of the Benchy The Benchy is around since 2015 and is a used as a benchmark…
Heute eine kleine Sammlung an Bewerbungstipps für technische Berufe, entstanden in Kooperation mit Tino Dietel, Engineering Lead bei TRADEBYTE. Ein paar Tugenden vorweg Rechtschreibung Nichts bringt uns mehr auf die Palme, als Rechtschreibfehler: Verben werden klein, Nomen werden groß geschrieben. Nutze bitte die Rechtschreibprüfung in deinem Schreibprogramm. Lass noch jemanden drüberschauen, wenn Du dir unsicher…
When you’ve finished reading How to implement Python Decorators you might wonder if it is possible to hand over some parameters to the decorator function. And yes that is possible and can come in quite handy. For a Flask project I wrote a decorator to manage authorization of endpoints. I wanted to grant access to…
Assembling the Y-Axis of the Prusa i3 made a lot of fun. So up to the next: X-Axis The assembly is pretty straight forward. The manual has enough imagery and the description is very detailed. One tip: instead of using the included allen keys consider using a little electric screwdriver like the Bosch IXO. It…
Motivation Sometimes you encounter websites which seem to have time traveled from 1999. No responsive UI, no widgets, just plain html input fields and selects. Time to improve these sites 🙂 Greasemonkey overview Greasemonkey is a browser plugin which lets you inject client-side JavaScript into the webpage just as the developer could have intended to…
Motivation Sometimes you need to find files across multiple directories and / or directory hierarchies according to certain pattern. E.g. find all image files with the jpg extension You can use it to find files in a directory by using wildcard semantics. Let’s say we have a directory structure like this: glob_test/ |– dir_a/ |–…
The Tools Prusa included some tools. Pliers, a screwdriver and some hex wrenches. Their claim is that this is all you need to assemble the printer. While that might be true you should consider some additional tools. An electric screwdriver with the correct bits speeds up the process. And a hex socket should be used…