If you could get the right settings to compare with on a wanhao 3 dual extruder then I would be amazed😎

I have a ten year old solidoodle 2 sitting in my basement

Funny enough, as I type this I'm printing some parts on my Makergear M2 which I purchased in 2012. Used PrusaSlicer 2.5.0 Alpha3. Had been using Slic3r 1.3.0 up until a few months ago, the upgrade to PrusaSlicer was a giant leap in options.

Maybe something with DC motors.

I'm still using a printer I've had since 2014

interesting, can you elaborate a bit on how that helps? aside from a back up.

@@OnceShy_TwiceBitten it has all the software you need already included, and the virtual machine will emulate the correct processor. If you put the disk image on an external drive, you have a handy way of revisiting the project quickly. The problem nowadays is that everything is a subscription that requires calling home over the internet :(

I've had the same experience as an embedded software developer. When you get asked to fix a bug found in a 20 year old product it's a lot easier if you have access to a virtual machine with the original environment.

Concentric or spiral infill can also give very nice results with silky PLA filaments. I have printed some coins this way, that ended up having a bit of an appearance as if they were turned on a lathe.

I like that in Cura you can use a mix of concentric and lines for beauty and strength!

And if the top layers need overhangs, concentric can get great overhangs

I was wondering why he said that. For anything circular or fairly round especially, concentric infill is going to be most pleasing to the eye.

Ha, same here. I started with the PrintrBot 1405 Simple, laser-cut plywood kit. Reasonably decent prints. I, too, used Repetier Host and Slic3r. Ah, the good ol' days. I'm now using a Creality-10S with various upgrades.

My first MDF wooden frame printer from 2016 (Prusa-Mendel i3 clone) is still my only printer! :D With how good the modern slicers got it's printing better than it ever has!

It's 2022 and my trash picked plastic framed printer is not going to be replaced any time soon. Being poor sucks.

I started with a printrbot simple in 2014 and used all of those tools, just recently dug it out of the box it was in and once I reset the strings (lol) it worked again! Definitely getting a new printer once I get the time and money for it. Repetier host with slicer on my mom's macbook was quite an adventure to get working right, especially when printing over USB like I did.

good game !

@@MakersMuse Really good game*

Lifetime favorite

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Area of Effect?

I miss Skeinforge. It was timeless!!

Get excited!

I did as well. Remember how long it would take to slice a complex model!

Hahah! It really did feel like that some days.

I just had the same experience! Started in the summer of 2014, then life happened in the intervening years and comparing my latest stuff to the few remaining prints I've got hanging around from then is wild.

Have you seen the SLS printers they've got now? These big tower printers with hoppers filled with powdered material. It's actually pretty amazing. No support material at all, and the powder can be reused a bunch and you can take a failure and powder it to reuse.

@@anon_y_mousse Really? that's really cool!

@@anon_y_mousse Interesting to hear that the powder is used over! In 2019 I toured a massive industry-sponsored maker space in Europe and they told us about the EUR 1.5 bn SLS printer they'd just gotten in. A 300x300x300 mm powder fill cost 12k and they said they'd discard all leftovers after each print run to avoid any contamination. The whole place oozed money and we felt a bit out of place there. I work at a small, somewhat underfunded maker space and we've always prided ourselves in trying to salvage, improvise and make do, in order to save costs, protect the environment and because we simply enjoy it. Picking the electronic waste can be a massive rush of happy chemicals in your brain! Over there they were literally: "We don't tinker. We produce!". It was all about efficiency and professional, marketable results.

I'm also a big fan of concentric, I typically use it for both top and bottom fill mostly because I like the way it looks.

I will have to try track down an old makerbot or mendel! It's the reverse of the test in this video haha

@@MakersMuse Fantastic :) In a similar vein, I've also had deep on my back burner the idea to see how close to the original suggested BOM you could get while trying to build something like the cupcake CNC. I imagine you'd have to fabricate some of the parts yourself, or substitute with modern components. Somehow I doubt there's still a wealth of MK6 Stepstruder parts out there, but maybe I'm wrong!

With which electronics, extruder and fw on the cupcake? Dc motor struder or stepper? Acceleration or not etc?

Oft now that you mention it I seem to remember hearing about the thermistor issue, but thought it was the opposite! Such a kludge fix

I still print on my Solidoodle 3 and can confirm the thermistor was capton taped to the nozzle so it read 30 deg lower then the heater block

In my case, I got an original Ender 3 back in the day. It's been wonderful for both aspects. Printing was amazing to a noob like me and printing upgrade pieces was fun. Now, it's a fire and forget printer. I haven't observed a first layer go down in over a year. That experience with the Ender lead me to a Hictop Prusa clone that has the potential to blow the Ender away. It's also really tweakable too. Maybe I'm out of place with my comment, but this is what your comment brought to my mind. Stay well, Internet person!

I guess I meant to add that, for $99, that Ender deal cannot be beat.

@@TechGorilla1987 An honest relaying of your personal experience, with no agenda attached, surely is never "out of place" ! I agree that the Ender price is a very good deal. However, your own comments make it clear that for you, tinkering with the printer was part of the fun. I hate it. I absolutely hate it. I've had an Ender 5 for two years; I'd been saving for a Prusa Mk3 and decided that I had enough electronics and other skills to deal with the probable issues on the Ender and that saving several hundred dollars was a good thing. For the last year I've been devoutely wishing I'd saved for that Prusa instead. When it works, the Ender is a useful tool for me to create parts for my actual hobbies. But when something goes sideways - which I usually discover when I get home from work - instead of being able to indulge in a nice relaxing hobby, I instead have to spend time and energy figuring out why the f my printer isn't working this time. Has that helped me build troubleshooting skills? Yes. Would some of those issues have occured on the Prusa? Probably. But now I have a Bambu X1C and the difference is night and day. I *like* using the X1C. I'm reluctantly still using the Ender-5 because it handles silk PLA better, and because there's a few things I can do in PrusaSlicer that I can't do in BambuSlicer. But overall - having to deal with that gorram Ender-5 almost pushed me out of 3d printing. The only reason I stick with it was because I'd sunk too much money into the printer to just walk away. If I'd only spent 100$ on the thing, I guaruntee I'd have just given it away to be done with it. And then I'd never have gotten into learning CAD and making my own unique things, which is awesome. To be fair, I don't know if the printer Angus is advertising would be nearly as frustrating an experience. But I do think it's very, very important that as a community we recognise that there are two different sorts of hobbyists using 3d printing, and shape our suggestions of "this is a good starting printer" to match what the user actually wants to do. For someone like you, who wants to tinker and mod and upgrade, a 99$ Ender-3 is hands-down perfect. For someone like me? I'd rather spend 1,000$ on a printer than *just works* than 100$ on one I have to constantly fight with.

haha yeah ! you'd hit slice then go do something else

There wasn't many options around at the time, but Slic3r was a blessing that's for sure!

@@MakersMuse Kisslicer had a lot of features before a lot of the others but it never got as popular. Not sure why it never gets mentioned.

@@Mitch3D Yeah, I recall it being powerful but clunky, and the full version was paid so that might have been a turn off for a lot of people. I was deep in makerbot land at that time...

Me too. And the printer had no control panel-you controlled it from Repetier Host and that was that. (I think its axis motion buttons were in the shape of arrows back then, not quarter-circles, but Angus didn't show the Manual Control tab, so that's just from memory.)

Yeah that would make sense, as the ‘stepping’ would just be because of the LCD pixels

Real men do the Windows 3.11 for a week challenge.

Mendel90 builders, there are dozens of us! (I got better results on my mendel90 than a lot of printers available at the time.)