New Printer Adventure

New Printer Adventure

We got a new printer… … and we thought it would be fun to share that experience. In the past month we got a new FFF (FDM) 3D printer. Well, it is new to us, but a used machine. Welcoming the Raise3D Pro2 Plus to our maker collection here at Illuminated3D....

Printer Calibration: Flow

Calibrating your printer is a necessary adventure that every printer owner needs to learn how to do. There are many resources online for printer calibration from written guides (like this one) to youtube channels and more. Since everyone learns a little differently,...

Printer Calibration: E-Steps

Calibrating your printer is a necessary adventure that every printer owner needs to learn how to do. There are many resources online for printer calibration from written guides (like this one) to youtube channels and more. Since everyone learns a little differently,...

Illuminated3D Launch

Here we go, lets make some art! 3D printing is a great modern technology. It allows us to take almost anything we can think of and design and turn it into a physical object. From high tech materials used to make functional parts, to simple, corn-based plastics printed...

Setting up OctoPrint on Ubuntu 20.04 with Python 3

Note: This post was originally on my personal blog. I have moved it here as it relates to what we do. Overview I had been running OctoPrint on a small embedded PC that I had, but it was not running as well as I would have liked. This original build was kinda slapped...