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[–] cwc 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Ah good to know. When the new Ender gets here it will probably inherit the Octoprint setup then. I'm slowly accepting that I'll need to upgrade the old mainboard to use Klipper and get the most out of the motors/etc. I just know that once I'm sitting and looking at the old board and extruder, I'm going to be wanting to turn them into a third machine... 🤦‍♂️

Modernizing an Ender 3 in c/3dprinting

[–] cwc 1 points 1 year ago

I had moved back in 2020 and the space I picked to be my shop/lab wound up being the space where I shoved everything that didn't get used regularly, to be organized later. I've now gotten married and have the help and motivation needed to get the space cleaned up and useful. I was more into functional printing, but nowadays I'm printing art and knick knacks for the family, which has been fun.

Modernizing an Ender 3 in c/3dprinting

[–] cwc 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not yet, I was thinking BL Touch as it's way cheaper on AliExpress, though the manual shows a CRTouch connection on the Sprite Pro and I haven't researched yet if they're compatible.

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Modernizing an Ender 3 (self.3dprinting)

submitted 1 year ago by cwc to c/3dprinting

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I've recently returned to the hobby, after some lifestyle changes brought on by the pandemic. It's been a lot of fun catching up on the latest developments, like the emergence of Bambu, etc. My printer is an Ender 3 from Sainsmart, bought in late 2019. I'm guessing it's one of the earliest hardware revisions. I printed a few of the suggested upgrades back when I first bought it, but it was printing pretty well out of the box, so I never did any real mods.

I couldn't help but pick up some recent deals: I ordered the Ender 3 V3 SE, along with a Sprite Pro extruder and dual Z-axis kit - so I can still have a nice machine to print with while I upgrade and tune my old one.

So I wanted to ask the community a few things:

Am I likely to need a new motherboard to run this extruder? Hoping I can get away with just firmware
Same question, but for Klipper? I currently run Octopi, if I switch away from Marlin, will I also need to drop that as well?
Are there any other mods I should be considering to maximize the machine's potential? I'd like to use what I have available where possible, just couldnt resist the Sprite Pro as I want to do ASA and TPU.

Would love to hear folks' thoughts, seems like a better time than ever to be in the hobby!

My paint storage setup for painting 3D printed models. in c/3dprinting

[–] cwc 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oops, I meant the STLs 😅 Very nice work though!

My paint storage setup for painting 3D printed models. in c/3dprinting

[–] cwc 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sweet setup! Could you link the models?