1.5mm is a pretty big retraction, try and make it as fast as possible. I run with a 0.8mm retraction at 25mm/s with 30mm/s perimeters with no blobs. (My belts are rather stretchy) Try and see how fast your retractions can go, and how small you can get away with.by Euhedral - General
You may have your firmware configured to home at max position instead of minimum. Since gcode for first layer seems correct (G1 Z0.300 F6600.000) I can only assume that your firmware is mixed up on what the endstops represent. Should be a line in your firmware that looks like #define Z_HOME_DIR -1 Make sure it is -1 if you want the nozzle to be on the bed. Also, like duttonw said, you might wantby Euhedral - General
Hey Kit, A few questions; 1: Can you connect if you run pronterface as root? (Terminal -> navigate to pronterface directory -> sudo ./pronterface.py) 2: Have you programmed some variant of the reprap firmware to your board? (Might require arduino IDE)by Euhedral - General
What will the replacement be for thingiverse? We can't exactly go posting everything to github, sure we can host it there but where will the centralised "search engine" for parts be? Where can we go to find that part we need but don't have time to design? the pirate bay with their physibles? /r/thingiverse? I am actually quite concerned if the site we all used starts stealing from the very usersby Euhedral - General
Hi Deb, I haven't played around with an arm based machine, but it should be the same as the linux box I'm currently running on. I might also get a bit technical, so bear with me. First we need to check if you laptop can even see the board in the first place. For this I need you to start up a terminal of some sort, this will make things go much quicker. Run the command: "lsusb" (no quotes) thisby Euhedral - General
It seems like your hotend might be too close to the bed for the first layer. If you use slic3r, heat up the bed and hotend up to your printing temperature and move the endstop so the tip is *just* touching the bed. Also make sure your bed is level or else it will lead to a world of hurt later on. You only really need to level your bed once.by Euhedral - Printing
Congratulations Billy! I guess I need to do more calibration if I want to try and win next time!by Euhedral - Competitions
Printed on an orca 0.40 in PLA. No cleanup. Took 2.5 hours to print. ; layer_height = 0.2 ; perimeters = 3 ; solid_layers = 4 ; fill_density = 0.125 ; nozzle_diameter = 0.35 ; filament_diameter = 1.7 ; extrusion_multiplier = 1 ; perimeter_speed = 20 ; infill_speed = 75 ; travel_speed = 500 ; extrusion_width_ratio = 1.535 ; scale = 1 ; single wall width = 0.31mm It looks like RichRap was right wby Euhedral - Competitions