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Day 2 of @3dprintopia.bsky.social is in the books. With the power fixed and me having a chance to catch up on all the things I wasn't prepared for we at least got most of the top front row running. Sorry to anyone I couldn't give enough time to, especially on my hectic day one.

Come see us this weekend September 27th and 28th at @3dprintopia.bsky.social in Bel Air, Maryland.

All setup for this year's @3dprintopia.bsky.social Be sure to come say hi and check out the printers.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 18. The latest in my collection is this Lulzbot Taz 6. Not something I was after but its nice to have next to the 4 & 5. A Mini would probably round out this end of the collection. But before I leave Hawaii I'm probably buying another old printer.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 17 still Hawaii Standard Time. My fourth and final Makerbot Replicator 1 is this single toolhead model I bought for $31. The others are duals so this mixes things up at an inexpensive price. Long term parts donors are also important.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 16. Later than usual post it's still only 7pm in Hawaii. This Printrbot Plus is my third of the brand. Like the simple it has a Rev D board. I picked this up in Front Royal Virginia and got it printing recently.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 15. The second Printrbot in the collection was this Simple 2014 model. The previous owner changed the line drive to a belt drive. Seems to have a bit of issues with Z binding/wobble. The RevD is a tight squeeze but can run Marlin 2.1.x or Klipper.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 14. On my way home from buying a Monoprice Mini Delta the seller informed me he probably should have given me this Solidoodle 2. Weeks later I went back for it. Its currently a project. I've added a 24v heater but it'll be a mess at the show.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 12. I avoided it for so long but earlier this year I bought my first printrbot. This simple metal came out of Philadelphia for $10 and now runs @marlinfw.org 2.1.3 Beta 3. Banana for scale.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 9. The 6th classic in my collection and second Ultimaker is this UMO+. The previous owner was gifted it by Ultimaker at an event. The UMO was a great printer for it's time and the heated bed is a must have upgrade that the UMO+ came with stock.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 8. This Makerbot Thing-O-Matic just arrived. Includes the belted automated build plate. Everything seems functional. I tore it down, cleaned it up and all that's needed is a bit of cable wrap.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 7. The 5th classic in my collection a @lulzbot3d.bsky.social Taz4 was brought to last year's event by MattsPrintables from a person in the Voron discord. I have seen gone through this printer but I dont seem to have taken many pics. Dual Budaschnozzles!

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 6 I'm late again. The 4th in my collection of classics is the @e3donline.bsky.social BigBox. Seen last year with Georgia and David who later put me in touch with designer Greg Holloway. It now runs and hopefully will spit out some makerchips for me.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 5. The third classic in the collection was a Lulzbot Taz 5 with dual extruder. I don't seem to have any good shots and it's in my cube waiting for the event. So here's a photo of the extruder.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 4, posting a bit late. This near mint Makerbot Replicator was the second classic in my collection. This was at the show last year and triggered some events that caused my collection to grow massively this following year.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 3. This Ultimaker Original was the first classic in my collection. Its running Klipper with inputshaping at 10k accel on the stock MCU. To make life easier I added a spring steel sheet and with a probe in the second hotend slot.

Countdown to @3dprintopia.bsky.social Day 2. Wait is that ANOTHER Makerbot cupcake? This one needs a bed but it looks like it will also be printing at the event! MK5 Extruder this time. Mechanical relay on the heater goes click clack all print long!

Count down to @3dprintopia.bsky.social 2025. Day 1 we have a working 2010 MakerBot Cupcake CNC with MK4 extruder that will be at the event and hopefully printing the entire time. Come see this and more at the This Old 3D Printer booth. #3DPrinting

Y AXIS is mirrored after flashing firmware but can we pretend for a minute the MakerBot Cupcake is printing well? .28 layer height 215 motor pwm at 30 mm/s Stopping the hotend side to side movement may improve this quite a bit. #3dprinting

Could this be the first time a Voron test cube was printed on a MakerBot cupcake? Hopes are high this will be printing during @3dprintopia.bsky.social

Updated photo of the printers you can expect to see at my booth for @3dprintopia.bsky.social They should all be working. Most with Marlin 2.1.3b3+ or Klipper. Mostly limited to the power available. Cupcake shows signs that it will work once I fix the driver I blew up.

Big news. I finally added a Makerbot Cupcake CNC to the collection and it will be with the rest @3dprintopia.bsky.social This may actually be printing at the event. It turns out it was way better of than we thought until I fried a driver!

Starting a little planning for @3dprintopia.bsky.social Should have 12 printers crammed in. MK0 is placeholdered by a mk2. Delta to the back right of the printrbot. Leaves room for 2 more. Should have a Solidoodle 2 soon. We have more replicators & projects as the last possible slot.

The rebuild on the Prusa i3 Rework (MK0 era Fork) hit a milestone last night. Assembled the Reprap MK2B PCB bed and tested to 100C. The owner plans on loaning it back to me for the @3dprintopia.bsky.social display. Bunch of small stuff left but the 2.85 toolhead is the major work left.

No MMU? No problem. My wife was going to paint these from a solid color print. I grabbed old reliable off my desk from work as it's easy to change filament on quickly. 25 filament changes taking an additional 21 minutes over the original print time estimate.

Oh man. I forgot that yesterday was the end of support for the Ultimaker Original+. 10+ years of support for the plywood wonder. #3DPrinting #Ultimaker

3D Printers Assemble! Another round of dusting off and working on Stock, #Marlin, & #Klipper in preparation for my latest project I hope to show @3dprintopia.bsky.social this year. With mottos like "Not a Museum" and "Hey we're still using that" I'm here to bring this machines into 2025 and beyond!

I may have done it again. This one has some history. Owned by Nick from the Brick Drone Kickstarter. This machine apparently had something to do with the work on that.

Ultimaker Original Plus keeping the spiders awake this evening. First print since I bought this one Saturday.

New acquisition. Totally related to something we're cooking up and hoping to show off at @3dprintopia.bsky.social if it gets far enough along. Still need a cupcake and a thingomatic in the collection.

Not that I have anything going on, but I figured I would update my handle to my domain. Been on the road for 2 weeks, several days & an extra unplanned state. Haven't gotten any of the usual CAD work I would do on the road or anything else in my spare time. Bringing home more projects too lol