The Mythosaur Project

[hasty aspen]

The quest to convert a Creality CR-10 S5 into a cosplay armor forge.

I will post pictures and updates on the project, but feel free to contribute suggestions or recommendations for mainboards, firmware, hardware upgrades, or other things I may have overlooked. Thank you!

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[hasty aspen]

@vocal olive @warm rover @buoyant ermine @fallen eagle @mellow quarry the project will be over here...

[fallen eagle]

Wont be able to help dude, sorry, you know that i dont know anything about tinkering with printers

[vocal olive]

10-4!

i think his intrest is just to showcase the tinkering

[hasty aspen]

But you can shout out crazy things when you want to like, "That's cool!" or "I don't get it..."

[fallen eagle]

In that case im your man

[fallen eagle]

Just to have a better idea, what do you mean "cosplay armor forge"? Like i dont think that you'll make a real forge

[hasty aspen]

Naw lol

Just something really really good at printing Mandalorian helmets, armor, and my new Iron Man stuff.

Preferably in something like PETG or maybe even ASA

[fallen eagle]

Oh in that sense

Gotcha

[hasty aspen]

So this is the hardware I'm starting out with.

[fallen eagle]

Well in THIS case, i might be able to actually help

[hasty aspen]

Hm?

Can you tell me if black wires go to red wires, or the reverse?

XD

I figured I should just cross wires and see if I can get a spark going.

[fallen eagle]

...

[buoyant ermine]

i wouldnt lol... shorted out a board doing that

[fallen eagle]

I know how a printer ks made

[hasty aspen]

I figured.

[vocal olive]

are we adding klipper in the process????

[hasty aspen]

So, you guys can see the spare CR-10 brainbox I have. I have a bunch of 12V 350W PSU's too, but only one 24V 600W. I also got the Creality V4.2.7 mainboard, an Ender 3 V2 screen, CR-Touch, 400x400mm 24V 350W aluminum heated bed, and I know I need to get a wiring harness extension set.

[hasty aspen]

Yeah, so now my board choice is in doubt again.

Along with the choice of screen.

[buoyant ermine]

classic

[hasty aspen]

Maybe I should go SKR Mini E3

[vocal olive]

no non no the touch screen can be used with klipper!

[hasty aspen]

I bought all this stuff last summer, so I don't feel the "pain" of the investment anymore.

[hasty aspen]

Not touch screen.

It's an Ender 3 V2 knob screen with separate firmware flash.

I've heard it's locked into Creality's stuff.

[vocal olive]

also cn be used

[hasty aspen]

https://www.amazon.com/Creality-Ender-Kit-Intelligent-Replacement/dp/B0BRND15J6

Hm.

[vocal olive]

https://github.com/GalvanicGlaze/DWIN_T5UIC1_LCD/wiki

[hasty aspen]

Interesting

[hasty aspen]

Ooh...

@vocal olive you know too much.

[warm rover]

hi how are ya?

[fallen eagle]

All good

[warm rover]

good you?

im the tinkerer 😄

kawalzki is good with cad... he reverse engineered the whole damn voron phoenix before the release

[hasty aspen]

What?

He didn't tell me that... XD

[buoyant ermine]

i once saw kawalski eat a whole baconator

[warm rover]

I once saw kawalski make a speed demon

[hasty aspen]

This must be a legend we are dealing with.

😂

[vocal olive]

its not finished yet stapppp it lol

[hasty aspen]

Close enough

Run out the files. Please. Now.

XD

Jaf wants to start printing...

[vocal olive]

nope not till mine is started first lol

[hasty aspen]

Ohh. So it'll be the Kawalzkinator.

[vocal olive]

im supper slow with CAd.

[hasty aspen]

And only the Kawalzkinator can reproduce Kawalzkinator parts.

[hasty aspen]

Probably lightyears beyond my skills. Ask SiliconPyro if you want a quick tutorial lol.

[vocal olive]

lol he is just learning as well

[hasty aspen]

But he learns FAST

It's funny how much he's picked up since I've been talking with him.

[buoyant ermine]

jaf is a lot smarter than he looks

i dont do cad lol.. tinkercad is about it

[hasty aspen]

Jaf's a great tinkerer. And I've never seen him, so I can't say he doesn't look smart. He's got a British accent, so he sounds smart. 😁

[buoyant ermine]

i havent seen him either.. but i like to think he looks like russel brand

[warm rover]

Further than anyone else

[warm rover]

Faster than any of us because we don’t know how lmao

[warm rover]

A guy with a moustache

[buoyant ermine]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-what-im-saying-randy-marsh-south-park-s14e14-crème-fraiche-gif-23114913

[warm rover]

Funny story, I shaved off my moustache because i was being told to by a few friends and when i walk over they tell me to go back as if i can glue it back on

Anywho

This could be a great machine on GitHub

So what do you wish to achieve? Quality, big, what else? Stick with wheels or?

[hasty aspen]

Me?

Hm... So, my initial goal is to get the main unit into a format where I can more easily expand things without running into limits, like psu wattage.

I'd like to use 24V because it heats faster, and the steppers like it better than 12V. However, I'd also like to keep the fans quiet, so I had the idea that I could use 24/12V buck converters to step the 24V outputs down to 12V for the fans.

I'd like to keep the 500x500mm build volume. IDEX is a possible future upgrade, I think the POM wheels and current motion system will hold for now, but linear rails are a tempting option for the future as well. For now, POM's work, so they'll stay.

https://3dfused.com/product/cr-10-s5-y-axis-linear-rail-kit/

There is this option for the y, but it still clings to the single-belt drive, which I don't like, so...

https://www.amazon.com/SIMAX3D-MGN12H-Printer-Machine-Upgrade/dp/B09ZTNKTN6

If I did linear rails I'd probably use something like this.

[fallen eagle]

I can help too, somehow...

I... fine, im useless

[hasty aspen]

No. You are here for moral support.

I'm about to take my first printer apart in a few weeks, and turn it into a frankeinprinter which may or may not be a successful endeavor...

[warm rover]

if it aint broke dont fix it

but v wheels do degrade so for long life i would say it is worth the upgrade

[mellow quarry]

i would stick with the 4.2.7 it only has one plug for z steppers but the e3 mini has 2 but they both only have one z driver
the btt board just splits it off into 2 plugs

[warm rover]

This is true

But

The skr 1.4 turbo isn’t a bad choice either

[mellow quarry]

then he wouldnt need a klipper pad or pi thing right?

[warm rover]

A pi

Yes

Is he not wanting to do that?

[hasty aspen]

I have a pi

No success using it yet

Rpi 4B

[vocal olive]

i partialy disagree.... yes cheep Vwheels degrade. however if you print alot of CF in an enclosure the Linear rails wear down and jam more often

[warm rover]

There’s a fix to that

Us

[warm rover]

True

But this is a cosplay forge or something, I didn’t think the size would be practical to enclose or need to be enclosed

Also if the frame is skewed just a little bit it will also be messed up

[vocal olive]

thats fair.

[warm rover]

But it is his machine he can do what he likes

Ok, so it’s big you’re going for speed, how fast you plan on going? Because you can go big and fast but you’ll need the flow and cooling

[warm rover]

this is where icant help, uk colour code is weird

[hasty aspen]

Lol. Just me cracking a joke.

[hasty aspen]

Thank you! 😊

[warm rover]

whats your issue with the pi

[hasty aspen]

I kinda gave up on speed, more like aiming for endurance and precision.

[hasty aspen]

The pi.

Just doing stuff with it.

I plug it in and a light turns on...

So...

Uh...

Yeah.

It won't hook up with wifi, so I can't reach it with my laptop. I think that's something only my dad can help with atm

Or I could try usb...

[fallen eagle]

Wow, what a help...

[hasty aspen]

You are here to stop me from turning back or giving up

[vocal olive]

we need to re flash the pi with your home wifi in mind and then we can get you remoted into it

[warm rover]

Yes, true, did you put in your WiFi’s info on the flashing page

Like the settings

[warm rover]

Precision, endurance meaning reliable for a long time?

[fallen eagle]

Dude answer to my post in the forum, i tagged you

[warm rover]

I didn’t see that

Sorry

[hasty aspen]

Yes. Last time I was trying to hook up to my dad's office wifi. I think I'm going to try setting up at home, but that happens after I make a workspace (i.e. recover my desk from the snowdrifts of useless newspaper clippings and set up a monitor, mouse, and keyboard)

[hasty aspen]

This

[mortal folio]

complete noob here, but those support rods look really thin. will that affect performance?

[vocal olive]

support rods?

please reply or copy link of post you are refrencing

[mortal folio]

i was referring to the pictures

[warm rover]

I think he’s referring to these?

[mortal folio]

the rods on the gantry

yeah those

[warm rover]

Think it just helps rigidity of taller printers

[mortal folio]

ik my printer has some, but theyre a lot thicker and more sturdy looking

[mellow quarry]

if there solid rods its fine
also they just act as like tensioning cables to keep it up strain
its less that they are supporting more that there pulling

[hasty aspen]

True

I used 1/8th inch all thread the first time on the front rods, but then I came back and added a pair of 1/2inch all thread struts on the back too. I'm just too lazy to disassemble the front ones lol.

[mortal folio]

ok that makes perfect sense