Oh, that’s a really good idea, I’ll do that, thanks!
That can be a great help while changing filament, especially with my complicated double extruder setup, it’s always a pain to do manually.
I think I’ll keep the last button to select between two modes: 3D printer control for the MPCNC and CNC milling control for the 3040CNC, that way I can use only one controller for both machines.
I’ll need to start working on the code now, as usually it’s not really my strong suit so I expect it to take a while, but it shouldn’t be too complicated since it’s basically just reading buttons and potentiometers status, sending a gcode and switching on or off the appropriate LED. All the hard work of moving the step motors is done by the MPCNC.
Anyway, I did a few things this weekend:
- almost finished the wiring of the controller, I just need to insulate all that stuff with heat shrink tubes and hot snot:
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2)I had a problem with my shower. Whoever installed it was a bit of a moron and didn’t account for the window. So as you can see on the bottom, the part that is supposed to stop water pouring outside the shower stops at the middle of the window, while the curtain was attach way further on the wall. So basically the curtain was about 20cm off, so the water was just pouring all over the bathroom. Clever.
Also, the original holes in the wall werent strong enough and the tube was very close to falling over, it was already tipping down by about 10 degrees… So I designed a big bracket, in order to solve both these issues. This has, of course, been printed with my marvelous MPCNC. This single part took more than half of a new PLA spool, so this thing is freaking heavy!! It’s been printed with a very high infill and took quite a long time, about 6 hours, but it is insanely tough. I’m 100% sure that if something fails here it will be the wall itself and not this part, the wall is not nearly as tough as this thing. It is attached with two very long screws on both sides of the wall, (which was quite a nightmare to drill), so it cannot be dragged off in any direction.
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I’m very pleased with this part, I wouldn’t be able to find anything off the shelf to solve this idiotic problem so the MPCNC was a great help here. Not sure I’ll keep it in red though, this was supposed to be a prototype since I wasn’t really sure of the dimensions, but since the prototype worked perfectly I don’t really want to reprint it, I’ll probably just leave it like that or just add some black paint.
