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Step 12: First print in 1 hour
Prelude to first print... I washed the Formbot-provided flexplate with dish soap because I figure if I'm going to screw up a flexplate, it's the right one to screw up. As I'm washing the smooth side, I feel something coming off. Okay, that's not good. But, no, oops, it looks like that was a…

Step 11: More bringup... 9 hours ago
Okay, so we started last weekend with zero working printers and ended up with zero working printers. Let's see how this weekend goes... The SKR Pico and Formbot support Yaaj on the Vorom forums had the same problem . I'm unclear on if it's "Hey, we really need to get a small Ender-sized board out…

Step 10: In which I might have been done but am instead let down by the BTT SKR Pico 1 week ago
Ansible provisioning I don't have the energy to turn this into a proper Ansible tutorial that's generic enough to be safely shared so I'll be brief here. Basically, when I set up the firmware image, I gave it my username and ssh key so that I'd be able to just run Ansible. And then I've got a set of…

Step 9: Happy "Why the heck is everybody ordering so many MakerBeam XL's" day 1 week ago
Mystic was visiting a while ago and we were doing the "parallel play" thing where we were both working on different stuff the same time. And then she realized that she needed some springs, so we walked to the local Ace Hardware, which I'd never actually been in, so we had to also browse the place…

Step 8: Getting real close? 1 week ago
As I said last update, it feels like I'm reaching the end of the build? I grabbed the manual and the remaining parts and was able to fairly quickly sort the remaining 3D printed parts into a few small ziploc bags. Print bed In the absence of actual documentation, I'm going to assume that what I'm…