Ricardo Gomes

Today I finally managed to get some free time to install the new tenis ball feet on the printer. All in all I like the result, printer is higher from the ground, less noize and vibration and no fear to scratch the floor xD Since I was already with it,... [Read More]

After the awesome bed leveling of last week, I decide to finally start a big print, when i realized the hotend fan was having cabling issues (would stop working in some head positions). Time to pick my tools again and do another small fix. Gladly I had one last 12v... [Read More]

This weekend I decided to finally install my Anycubic auto bed leveling update that i bought some months ago. In the way I also updated to the latest Marlin 1.1.9.1 and finally got that first layer working nicely. I mainly followed the great video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G8GdNywsUQ&t=237s Along the way, I had... [Read More]

3D printer fixed, re-calibrated and working better than ever. Also added the new Ziflex magnetic base, works great :) Great video for re-calibrating the deltas:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk7remEhUx8 [Read More]

Long time no write. In the meantime I moved back to Portugal and will have now a bit more space for my “projects”. For now, I got a new office desk and that’s how the current setup looks like. [Read More]

Another great product from Xiaomi - DF3 dafang camera Got this one from GearBest for $27.99 - https://www.gearbest.com/ip-cameras/pp_693217.html?wid=1433363 ( search the internet for some coupons, there are always some available for GearBest ). So, what makes this one so special? 360 horizontal degrees by 93 vertical degrees of rotation freedom, light... [Read More]

Some more improvements on my Anycubic Delta Plus, this time a I just finished my Night Vision Mode. So in order to make this happen, I managed to find in aliexpress an IR Led Strip ( https://www.aliexpress.com/item/SMD3528-IR-InfraRed-850nm-940nm-Flexible-LED-Strips-120-LEDs-per-meter-LED-Tape-with-Black/32483847826.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.52b04c4dnWPhwQ ) from where I ordered 1 (1 meter is more than enough for this... [Read More]

Another weekend has passed and I decided to get rid or the ugly cables connecting the raspberry pi zero to the 3d printer.For this to go well (in one end because the tri-gorilla doesn’t output power in the usb-B port and in the other because the raspberry had the connections... [Read More]