I’m certain this is one of the biggest problems I’ve had. I do have a touch sensor and custom firmware to accommodate it but I still couldn’t get it working. I might try a new bed also to see if that helps. A new printer, even a cheap one, is definitely out of the question right now unfortunately.
Oh I understand now thanks for explaining. Yes this has been a consistent issue that I’ve had. I’m really having trouble making the levels consistent across the bed.
Thanks for replying. It gives me hope that I might be able to make something of this.
I have a bl auto leveller attachment. It didn’t work because I couldn’t attach it when the bracket it came with didn’t fit my printer. So I was reliant on printing one with a printer that didn’t work. I kinda just ended up zip tying it to the printer head and hoping for the best but to be honest I don’t understand how it works or how to use it.
I do really need to replace the bed on it. It’s in poor condition and it’s still the same bed that it came with 6 years ago. I’ve heard glass is great and adhesion definitely is an issue I keep having.
As for that last one I don’t know how I’d check the extrusion rate. I know it isn’t physically broken because I’ve pulled it apart several times and nothing looks cracked or broken internally.
Thanks for responding.
I think the biggest issue I ever had was being unable to accurately level the z axis evenly across the whole bed. It uses four of these frustrating little metal circles each located on a corner of the bed you have to twist that give no real measure to how much you’re turning them at all. I’m attaching a picture of them with this comment. It’s the round part attached to a spring.
I did check the temps and adjusted them at times based on the filament manufacturers suggestions and online comments. That only really was a problem when the nozzle clogged because it wasn’t getting hot enough.
I wouldn’t know how to measure the steppers but I know the temps are quite accurate from measuring them externally.
I’m not sure what you mean by the heat bed needing to be level relative to the X and Y.
Thank you for responding. I had a feeling that would be the case.
Can I ask what it is about the older models that make them so difficult for beginners compared to new models?
It’s too late, go on without me. Save yourselves!
I’ve been waiting for a story like this to happen in the UK for a while now. When I saw this I was actually surprised to see it was in the US. It’s only a matter of time, if it hasn’t already happened.
Your clothes do not teleport with you
You now lactate and secrete rennet. Making it possible for you to harvest the ingredients and make cheese at will.
You can only shift into a species that you’ve seen before. Can only shape shift into living things (not sentient and mobile inanimate objects)
And you can never return to any species you were previously. It has to be a new one every time until you exhaust the possible species. Leaving you stuck as the last possible species you pick to shape shift into.
It looks AI generated
Money is so incredibly devoid of creativity it hurts. They see it as nothing more than an extension of the ever present algorithm. It’s so fucking sad. I get that a lot of money is spent on making these systems but why can’t it be for anything more than printing more money. (Yes capitalism, comrades, I get it)
I’m sleep deprived and have only thought about it for 10 minutes but here’s some ideas off the top of my head…
Use AI to assist in reporting the disgusting content that’s pumped out for kids on YouTube. You don’t want to pay people to review every video so at least get it to report suspicious content.
Train it to spot the signs of fraud to help prevent people falling for scams or identity theft
Specialise it rather than some generalised system that spurts out bullshit. Actually give it roles. A purpose to exist. ChatGPT is not a personal assistant, it wasn’t designed to be one. It cannot function reliably as one. If you want to sell it as that then make it do that reliably and nothing more.
Train AI to assist in accessibility broadly across the internet. A page doesn’t have TTS no problem our AI was made for this purpose. The images have no meta description? It’s all good our AI will interpret what it sees for you. Unable to pass this captcha because of impairment? no worries our AI will deal with it.
For fuck sake design it to want more than immediate satisfaction from the user. I don’t want a one stop solution to an issue I want to discuss it and figure it out. Let it think for more than one second. Let it contemplate over the broader discussion rather than just my last response. Let it speak not simply respond. Let it speak honestly when it does not know an answer or is uncertain. It is merely glorified I/O in its current form. Useless for anything more than asking it which side to butter my toast (and 50% of the time it’d confidently declare that I should butter the crust). If you must burn the climate and doom our children in order to operate a b-movie skynet then please at least let it have the decency and respect to tell me it’s as ignorant as the apes that funded its existence.
That’s how it works yeah. The problem is measuring that distance is really hard to do, especially consistently. They used to advise putting some paper between the bed and the head but I never could do it right.