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When you plug a 3D printer (or any serial device) into a computer, it assigns it a symlink of /dev/ttyUSB[0..99] or /dev/ttyACM[0..99]. The numbering of these symlinks is dependant on the order the devices are plugged in. This can cause problems when you want a…

We recently moved into a house that had dumb garage doors, its the first house I have lived in that had any sort of garage door and it came with a level of worry that they would be left open at some point. It was…

I have a Monoprice printer that I wanted to put a different hotend on. It uses a non-standard mount for the original hotend so I modelled and printed a new one to accept a standard RepRap style nozzle. There are a few things I wanted…

When I started to work with hygroscopic filaments, I quickly found out the effects of wet filaments. Bad print quality, excessive stringing, decreased layer adhesion, its not very fun to print with wet filament. I decided to make something with junk I had lying around…