New in the tedious job category is working out the size of screws. Normally you can just get vernier calipers in there, but sometimes things have odd shapes and weird get-in-the-way-things and you have to be creative or guess. Enter the 3 RGB LED 17mm lamp board. What size head fits in here? Well 3mm and a bit... So I…
The Ankh occupies the centre of the playfield and displays the collected bonus. The Art Department is in charge of the playfield imagery, I'm designing the lighting for the inserts. The Ankh Lighting Tray holds the LED modules in the correct place for them to shine through holes in the playfield and into the poly-carbonate and artwork.
Adding Klipper to the CR-6 was not easy. One of the first things to go was the attached display and control panel. I thought this would be a hassle, but it was actually not a problem. MainsailOS gives lots of control, and creature comforts, as well as the printing quality improvements from Klipper. What do you get? The core Software…
As I was contemplating huge prints I started to look for quick wins to reduce printing times... History I bought a Creality CR-6 Max second hand and not printing reliably. It had all the usual problems you can read about for this model printer, enough that you may wonder why anybody wants one. Well the answer to that is the…
So, drying filament with a nice automatic machine seems a better idea than struggling the hard way with ovens and such. Enter the [name supressed] from [brand supressed], a fine-looking device. Within a few days the helpful device decided to leave the heating element on all the time, even when powered off at the control panel. I suspect a FET…
So after testing the IR device in Serpent Lanes I found some instability due to temperature change. I decided to use a new sensing technique, and this gave me a chance to try a different design for the upper lanes. The columns are taller, more stylised, and feature colour-changing capitals (tops). Construction is a bit sturdier, and replacement far easier.
Better is the Enemy of Done Words to live by. I've always hated napkin designs and quick sketches. They are ugly and confusing. There is no denying though, that they get the job done quick. The ugly schematic lead to a bit of ugly construction... So we have 240V switched with a circuit breaker, coil power switch, amp and volt…
My view is that you have not designed a thing until it has been tested, and it works.
