She got the printer he used in the video as an early Birthday present lol. And instead of putting the regular printer ink in we put Sublimation ink in.
Also we were able to print the sublimation ink on standard printer paper and print right on top of that. So she can save the special sublimation paper for doing shirts and other things with her heat press.
I will say I printed the first layer quite a bit faster than he did. I set it at 20mm/s and it did great. I don’t really see the need to go that slow lol
From a pic on her phone to a phone case lol. The actual phone case print sucked lol. But the sublimation worked great! Damn sure need to do some more tuning for TPU lol
Here’s a cool video on some test runs with the TMC2209 and TB6600 across five different NEMA17 motors. He’s good at explaining all the performance points and I found the performance differences using microstepping interesting.
That video is freaking amazing! I can’t wait to see the other tests.
I am confident that this is going to get explored in more detail. Full steps are very unusable for our use case. I am really hoping that it shows there is no difference in 1/4, 1/8th, 1/16th micro stepping. I expected full steps vs any micro to have a difference, it is the rest of them I hope doesn’t.
It would be cool if he did a holding torque test on them as well so we could see how that goes. We do use holding torque in CNC and printing. It would be nice to see how the holding torque relates to the minimum RPM torque compares.
I was surprised with the performance difference between the two drivers. My completely unqualified assumptions were that the tiny, fragile, lower amperage driver would have performed terribly against the large, high amperage, block of aluminum, with big discrete electronics in it!
I’ve been watching this series as I did his first build. Really impressive stuff. Too bad I don’t have a spare $10-15k sitting around LOL. Probably more than that because I would want to go powerful enough to cut at minimum 1/8" preferably 1/4" lol
I have been watching this develop in their discord. It is really interesting and a lot has happened in a short amount of time. I really like where this is going and it is most likely going to be a project some time in the future, when I have more time.
