blissful pond
Im going to come back with all of my photos in order once I actually atart my final build this is just to begin my post with the new 1.1.4 X Joint parts. I had just completed printing all of the other parts like in a week before these came out, so luckily I hadn’t assembled anything yet. I guess that’s part of the fun is upgrading things along the way.
Full weight comparison to be posted soon as well.
Edit: grey parts are the new 1.1.4
These are the EVA 2.4 parts i printed with the new 1.1.4 X Joints.
Some warping on the pieces to the right so i am going to reprint them in red with the bottoms for the 1.1.4 X Joints.
Will be running the Orbiter V2.0 and Dragon V2 Hotend
Printed on an Ender 3 Pro with a random SKR Mini E3 V3 i had on my 5 prior to the Octopus 1.1 it has now.
•Novamaker ABS
•Classic Cardboard box and heavy Blanket Enclosure hahahahah.
blissful pond
This is the hot mess I made 10 months ago when I first started this build.
I didn’t give up but I got distracted with other projects and didn’t have the knowledge to motivate myself to continue then. I took this picture more recently when I actually dove back into it and I purchased an ender three pro in order to facilitate this project.
This is the current disaster I’ve created out of it. Definitely putting lipstick on a pig if you know what I mean. To answer a couple questions yes I know that I have too many fans on there. Yes I’m gonna try to run it like this. Yes they’re probably going to get removed pretty quickly. This is how I procrastinate
Also I have no idea why I put a fan underneath it but it happened.
Here is the current state of the toolhead. Yes that’s another 4020 fan. Why? Again I have no idea…. I cracked the duct when installing it and used some abs, a soldering iron, and band aided it. I’m hoping when I finish this build in another four years I am going to print all new components for it and restart the process. Everything is ugly but I’m definitely doing what I can with what I’ve got. I have debated purchasing printed parts so many times but I can’t take the easy route. Although, I probably should.
Some photos printing the parts. This was the end of November.
Originally I was going to use a different toolhead before I got linear rails and scrapped that idea when i realized that was a waste of time. I really wanted to just put something together better than this end or three in order to re-print the parts properly. It turns out somehow I overlooked a 1.18 extrusion multiplier pretty much the whole time and could not figure out why I needed to run it at 82% extrusion factor on the klipper UI because my slicer settings were all jacked up. About two weeks ago I completely wiped my slicer and start fresh and my prints are looking significantly better now.
Thank everything for my buddy the code “prophet” as I’ll call him for his tolerance and willingness to endure my insanity and still help me more than I could ever expect anyone. Also a huge shout out to this discord as confusing as it is to my 33 year-old boomer brain.
For the sake of documenting this project I feel like it’s necessary to show why it’s taken so long. Ive been learning how to model in cad and now i try to model everything I see that is remotely interesting. Instead of just printing the models I find like a normal human.
