A few months back a good friend of mine and I were talking about 3D printing. He had been printing parts for his daughter’s Halloween costume. I was telling him about how I had been struggling with getting my prints to come off the bed. It was always a fight. “You need a glass print … Read more
I wasted so much time and filament trying to get this right. Ended up clogging my print head and having to replace my bowden tube on my Ender 3. So many failed prints. Frustratingly scraping half finished models off of the print bed. All because I didn’t know a few basic steps. Do these 3 … Read more
Your First 3D Print You bought the printer and put it together. Now what? Have no fear. Together we will go thru the steps to make your first 3D print. This is the list I wish I had had when I first started. Hopefully, I can save you from many of the beginner mistakes and … Read more
Pros and Cons of the Ender 3 V2 Pros Cons Ender 3 V2 Features Quiet printing This feature is not to be underrated. Printing with the original Ender 3 printer could be quite noisy. I could easily hear mine from a room away with the door shut. Some people can block out that sound after … Read more
This is an introduction to 3D printing, primarily focused on at home 3D printing. 3D printing is basically using a machine that adds material over and over until you have the desired 3D shape that you want. This process for creating has been around for some time, with early industrial uses emerging in the 1970s. … Read more
There are some things the instruction sheet that comes with the Ender 3 doesn’t tell you. The assembly will take around 2 hours to complete. It doesn’t have to be one 2 hour stretch, you can split it up. But if you make the same mistakes I did, it can take even longer. Avoid wasting … Read more
