AnyCubic i3 Mega Upgrades
April 24, 2019
After setting up my printer and doing some test prints and other things, I immediately set forth printing out upgrades for the printer. The intention here is to resolve some deficiencies in the design.
Flashing Z-Stack on a CC2530+CC2591 using a Wemos D1 mini
April 14, 2019
I’m messing about with Zigbee for a comms protocol to various temperature sensors, and this requires a Zigbee Coordinator. There’s a few ways of doing this, but ultimately I settled on a zigbee2mqtt bridge and a cheapie AliExpress CC2530+CC2591 module.
AnyCubic i3 Mega Tuning
April 10, 2019
After having my AnyCubic for a week, I’ve done a fair bit of tuning and mucking about. I’ve printed several benchmarking prints and calibrated the steppers. It’s printing fairly well now. Here’s what I did.
AnyCubic i3 Mega Marlin Firmware
April 1, 2019
So I’ve been doing more mucking about with my printer, and I elected to install a custom firmware onto the unit. This firmware is a port of the Marlin 1.1.9 firmware to be compatible with the AnyCubic i3 Mega v3.
3D Printing – First Steps
March 29, 2019
So I bought myself a 3d printer. I decided on getting an AnyCubic i3 Mega printer, which was pretty cheap considering. Reviews were fairly decent.
Necromancy and the Garmin Nuvi 1390
December 3, 2018
My father asked me to update the maps on his Garmin Nuvi 1390 on Friday evening. This did not go so well. Using Garmin Express, I applied the updates, unplugged it when it said, and it sat there with a black screen saying “Loading maps.” and that was all. Nothing else.