Mastodawn

If’n you caught Andrew’s toots yesterday about our new Filibus Keshi design going into production, and saw the failed attempt to get a gigantic version of it printing on our massive 3D printer at the makerspace, well, I’ve re-leveled the bed and re-sliced it for what I hope will be happier results, and you can watch it live for the next three days (or until I have to log in and abort it because it failed miserably):

https://communitymedia.video/w/aNHhQV2ThVFMC4ehpbiXuR

Andrew (Television Executive) (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image I'm putting the photo under a CW for folks who want to avoid spoilers, but the first test shots of our final Filibus Keshi design came off the press yesterday. This is the third minor iteration on the sculpt, and it addresses some problems from the first test shots. They've been approved, and will go into production this month. I'm thrilled to be growing the Mysterious Air Pirates toy line!

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DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab Mar 5

I also set up all the remote access bits I’ll need to connect to the machine running the stream and (a) abort the print and (b) stop the livestream, should things go poorly.

Computer touching!

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DJ Sundog from the *new* toot-lab Mar 5

The Elegoo OrangeStorm Giga looks like the slowest 3D printer around in comparison to our smaller bedslinging Anycubic Kobra 3, but it can print the entire volume of the Kobra 3 including its four filament changer and still have room left over on the bed, so I’ll take slow - so long as it succeeds this time!

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aschmitz

@djsundog Annoyingly true. I really like my Prusa XL, but printing tiny things on it is sometimes a hassle: if text on the first layer goes down smooth, it'll be fine pretty reliably after that, but at that bed size, it may literally be hours before you're sure.