LV8729 + updates (Patreon)

Dear Patrons,

It's been a while since I listed some upcoming videos, so here goes. I had a really productive school holidays and caught up on a few things.

Printer Reviews:

The only printer in my possession I've yet to release a video review of is the Peopoly Moai. I've had this for an embarrassing amount of time now, so it will be a long term review. I managed to clean out the old failures and fit the upgraded adjustment platform and FEP based reservoir. Hopefully I can this one out soon.

A BIQU thunder is apparently on the way. This is the printer that connects directly to Myminifactory for direct, one click printing.

I've agreed to do a Tevo Nereus Pro, which has a 7 inch touch screen UI and other fancy stuff. Last time I checked in with them they were having trouble with heat creep for dual extrusion.

Twotrees want to send me their Saphire CoreXY, but they also wanted to do this in the past with me jumping through hoops and doing other promotions, which is a deal breaker. We'll see what happens.

I've convinced my school to buy a K280 Delta printer, as a show off item for open days, etc. It's 1.2m tall and prints onjects 600mm tall. The students will be assembling it so I'm not sure how much I can film of that but I'll make a video on it after some testing.

Other technical things:

I've researched and fitted LV8729 drivers to the Ender 3, they print great but they're not that quiet. If anyone else if using them I'd love to know if I'm doing something wrong.

The Palette 2 is doing well and is a very cool piece of tech. I'll shoot a behind the scenes of my tests so far this weekend.

I've been testing the Astrobox box. It's super user friendly, think of it like a touch screen octoprint setup, but working out of the box. Not quite as extensible as Octoprint but a big market for it in my opinion.

Next video is most likely on Touch Mi ABL, which is a French alternative to BLtouch. It's an original solution with no English instructions, so i hope my guide will be very helpful in spreading the word.

My Ender 5 is being converted to enclosed in order to print ABS, Nylon and Polycarbonate. I've done most of the easy to fit mods for the first video on this. Part 2 is when it gets more serious with a board upgrade and heated chamber.

I have a RGB LED kit ready to test out. i think it's made to fit the Ender 3.

I've requested a metal robotic arm for testing from Banggood. I need ideas for shenanigans with it so please leave suggestions.

Plenty more floating around my head, as always it's just a matter of managing my available time to realise them. thank you all for your support, I am truly grateful!

Michael