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Bambu Lab X1 Carbon: 1 week review

7 November 2023 2 Comments

Hopefully this won’t spoil the article for you, but I’ll start off by saying that the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon 3d printer is fantastic, it looks great, prints well, and I love it. It feels like Bambu Lab is the Apple equivalent in the 3D printing world, and I compare the two because the machines

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OctoPrint – Flashforge Creator Pro 2

1 March 2021 14 Comments

Before we start, it’s important for you to note that this isn’t a supported setup for the Flashforge Creator Pro 2 to work with OctoPrint, it’s more of a work around. So it’s completely at your own risk. I’m presuming you already have OctoPrint setup, if not, take a look at the be below article:

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Flashforce Creator Pro 2 – First TPU Print

26 February 2021 2 Comments

After printing a ton of stuff in PLA, I thought I’d try printing with a different material in my new Flashforge Creator Pro 2. I thought about ABS, but after doing some research online, temperature appeared to be a big concern, and there are some air gaps in the case Creator Pro 2, specifically the

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Flashforge Creator Pro 2 IDEX – after two weeks use

22 February 2021 0 Comments

I’m fairly new to the world of 3D printing, but wanted to get into it as a hobby, but also because I need plenty of brackets for the smart tech installed around my home. After months of watching endless videos and reading reviews, I finally decided to buy the Flashforge Creator Pro 2. Mind you,

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How to setup OctoPrint / OctoPi to work on wi-fi

22 February 2021 2 Comments

Out of the box, OctoPrint / OctoPi works with ethernet, but to run it over wi-fi, you need to make a few simple changes. So let’s get started: Step 1 Connect your OctoPi Micro SD card to your computer. Step 2 Find the octopi-wpa-supplicant.txt file, and open it in Notepad++. DO NOT OPEN THIS IN

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How to install OctoPrint / OctoPi on a Raspberry Pi

20 February 2021 0 Comments

If you have a 3D printer without an IP connectivity (e.g. ethernet / wi-fi), but you’d like to gain some remote control and monitoring, then OctoPrint will help you. Essentially, you connect a Raspberry Pi to your 3D printer via a USB cable, and then that enables you to control your printer via a web

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