7/8/2026 - 75th Update!

mfw when the stardance bot tells me that only 10 hours per devlog counts

now that’s just rude

well, welcome back! 5:01 PM today and starting things off in a bad mood. guess we gotta waste our precious time by cleaning stuff up

anyways, 15 minutes later and some serious condensing (each day is like 5 sentences max), back to work! got some unfinished business to do while we work on today’s stuff!

so a series of event have occured and now it’s 10:13 PM. oops. for a second i got scared something was wrong but turns out the connecting wire to the inlet thing was just a bit disconnected, trying to access the web interface right now…

oh it’s because im on downstairs wifi. oh. gonna be following this for calibration! not exactly sure why there’s so many connection issues today. ok, while that’s connecting, gonna print the latch parts

so my s key finally fell off. oh. that’s not good (yes im touching the little button under it) ok, w repair, cleaned it up, the key still does the weird tilt thing, but it stays in there, so that’s good

so uh it fell out again. not good. ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

oh i guess im gonna keep that, i just need to be more mindful of where i press it i guess, problem is currently that the mcu keeps disconnecting whenever i change the extruder temperature, which is kinda weird

hmm mightve been an electrical thing?

so i just spent an hour trying to come up a solution for the extruder, none of them are reliable or possible (rubber band placement just gets in the way). so yeah. whys it working now

i guess the solution is grinding the gears down?

whys the “rushed for display” extruder the only working one now, wow

ok, latches made, no rubber bands since that just doesnt work (both the track and the thing), idk, later issue, right now i guess we’re gonna tune z stuff or gonna just try to make it as flat as possible?

i think for now let’s just assume perfect flatness for time, let’s replace the heater section of 1 with the one of 3 and just basically use tool 3 instead for time (since the gearing apparently works???) (please stay that way) i guess making it as flat as possible is the best idea for now

ok so it’s now 2:32 AM, the docking bay and the latches are added (ngl, they are bending because of a fillet), gonna ignore the fact that it’s slightly broken (nothing tape can’t fix), it does work, takes a bit of force though (as always)

7/7/2026:
- DONE - print, assemble, and add latches
7/8/2026
- DONE - heating tuning
- DONE
- GOOD - z bed tuning
  - GOOD - either assume perfect flatness or work on bed mesh/calibration
- g code should be able to run easily (simple commands of course)
- look into how to print stuff
- PRINTING WORKING BY EOD

it’s 2:50 AM, tested it out, IT EXTRUDES! YAY! (like i let go of the filament after pushing it to the cooling area and then it extruded!!! by itself with its own gearing!!!) the clicking noises are a bit questionable but sure, ill take it! also did the z paper thingy!

missed opportunity to call it cerberus, i might just add that somewhere… anyways, here’s the extruded stuff picture!

woo! i mean, what a way to end the day! ok, it’s 2:56 AM, that’s about it for tonight, gonna copy paste this into the website for today’s log and yeah, good night!