Over Thanksgiving weekend this year I finally pulled the trigger on a new MacBook Pro 16 after years of holding back and waiting. I have been constantly waffling on the decision sine the new models were announced last year. I wanted to ensure my wife was situated for work/school as she had been using hand-me-down …
Freight Trains in Brunswick on a gloomy fall day
This past Monday I was off of work and decided to head to Brunswick as it is one of my staples to get out of the house, get some steps in, and catch some time to shoot photographs and trains. When I got there I crossed paths with a father and his son who were …
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The latest upgrades to my Creality Ender 3 – The Micro-Swiss All Metal Hotend and SKR Mini E3 v2
Since my last post updating what I have done on my Creality Ender 3 I have made some additional updates, somewhat by choice, mostly by need. I have installed the WhamBam System's flexible build platform, as previously acknowledged, I have swapped out the Creality silent board with the SKR Mini E3 v2 and installed the …
I installed the Wham Bam Flexible Build System on my Creality Ender 3
In the ever evolving saga of my time with the Creality Ender 3 including changes, upgrades, and refinements I decided to change the build surface that I am using. Originally, my Creality Ender 3 came with a removable and flexible build surface, but I never had success with it. I read around and watched videos …
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Two Years with the Creality Ender 3
It has been a little over two years since I purchased my Creality Ender 3, am I happy with my purchase? Short answer, yes! Long answer below: I wrote a blog post about my Creality Ender 3 in November 2018, shortly after buying my Ender 3 on Amazon. I was a novice, and still consider …
Installing the Creality BLTouch Auto Bed Leveling Kit on my Ender 3
During the pandemic I have had a lot more time to work with my Creality Ender 3. This has led to a lot of time manually leveling the bed and working to achieve success when getting the initial layers on my prints. The process of constantly re-leveling the bed, and having things change between prints …
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I upgraded the main board on my Creality Ender 3!
About a year ago I posted about purchasing a Creality Ender 3 3D Printer and I have enjoyed having it, but have not been able to using it much in that time. I definitely was getting disheartened with it as I was having extremely inconsistent results. I eventually had to shelf the printer as we …
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I am bringing back an old hobby of mine
This past May my father came into town and he brought many boxes of model trains that had been acquired over the years from the time I was young up until a few years ago. Any time I would visit him from house to house he would show me things that he had picked up …
I am starting a new Hobby, lets see how this goes.
"..I put a glorious purple reel on the machine and began a print. It was a miserable failure. But It was ok with that as I have never done this before."
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