7/10/2026 - 77th Update!

wow, 77 updates, so it’s now 10:00 PM, idk what happened to this afternoon (basically just vanished, went to some job in the morning, slept when i got home, ate lunch at 4 PM, slept again, ate dinner at 8 PM, then showered and now it’s somehow 10:00 PM) im thinking media is gonna have to be moved to tomorrow, my only goal today is to find diamonds get the printing to work reliably

here’s a couple ideas i brainstormed last night

• increase the extruder heating temperature
  • should make it way easier for the gearing to push as well
• double check gearing
  • probably not this now that i think about it, but check docs
• double check rotation distance
  • again, probably correct
• add extra pressure in the config
  • similar to the first idea as in trying to actually push more filament
• slow things down even more
  • very sad but self explanatory

if we overextrude, that’s ok, we just need to find the tuning sweet spot where it is actually decent, but of course, the more important goal is to actually get some reasonable stream of filament flowing out (constantly extruding is not optimal but it’s whatever)

ok, upped the printing temperature by 10C, also decreased a lot of speeds, 10:33 PM, hopefully ready to test? ok, prepping the stuff, gotta clean the nozzle too, ok 10:40 PM, ready to go!

well that didnt print anything

ok, so shoving filament down the throat extrudes, pushing filament from far above works well (it does slam left and right but still functions fine), the velocity isnt correct AT ALL (might just be from the compression/friction), hmm

ive been suggested to look into the heatbreak and stuff, so gonna take a look at that, idk

a bit of a break later, the gearing is sus, trying to move it with the top off and only the heatsink attached, seems off

it’s been two hours and ive been playing with so so so many configurations (probably at least thirty?), moving spacers, adding rubber bands, readjusting, measuring, and i think ive come to a point where it’s “ok”. it goes out ok (3 rotations of the motor connection results in: ~1.8cm pushing fast, ~1.7cm pushing slow, idk for expected), but it’s basically incapable of going back up for some reason. it also produces a good amount of force out, but, as mentioned before, barely any up (skips a bunch)

ok, played around a bit more, idk, retraction worked for a second randomly, idk, installed it back on, ready to test again

3:36 AM, did a couple of cursed things in the config, specifically making it extrude 4x as much, along with making the deretraction speed higher in the slicer, that said, here we go!

ey it printed something! its still really fuzzy so i guess we still got more work to do (that was v1.4), ok v1.5 uploaded, let’s see! 4:12 AM, here we go

oh yeah also added fancy ending gcode lol

hmm, it’s more complete, but stll missing stuff, ok, 4:27 AM, the birds are probably coming out soon, v1.6 going!

well that didnt end well huh seems like the issue was just that the filament wasnt fully loaded, whoops

ok, v1.7 uploaded with some print skirts on the outside to help with the missing start extruding, flow rate also increased, let’s see, it’s 4:54 AM, so last print of the day!

uh oh it seems to be underextruding now, ok, 5:09 AM, here’s v1.8

ow was in the middle of cleaning the print bed and a piece of the skirt just went straight under my fingernail ouch

well, with the sun rising, here’s the end of today!

imo v1.5/v1.6 is my favorite, but it’s getting there in terms of smaller details, so i think tomorrow one or two more test prints and then a benchy would be a smart move? idk, the benchy’s just for the reveal video (yes i will try to fit in media here!)

well, 5:33 AM, that’s it for me tonight (tomorrow morning?), and yeah, good night!