Easiest way to make timelapse of your 3D prints

Easy tutorial to create nice timelapses of your 3D prints

Now you have a shiny new 3D printer. You start printing parts at considerable rate and haunting thingiverse for things to make. What about making a magical video of the thing that grows into reality (almost) instantly ?

This tutorial will...
3d printer timelapse MJPEG
Swappable hotend for your 3D printer

Detach and swap your hotend on your 3D printer

Sapphire Plus swappable hotend

If you have read my previous posts about replacing the hotend, you've probably already realized that changing the hotend is a tedious work.

Most of the difficulties comes from:

  1. Wiring the new hotend and sensors...
3d printer sapphire plus hotend connection
Installing Neopixel on your 3D printer

Installing RGB leds strip on your 3D printer

This post contains a small tutorial to describe how to install a strip of RGB(W) leds (typically WS2812B) on your printer. If you don't know what a led strip is, it looks like this:

RGB LED strip powered on with rainbow colors

It's a long flexible PCB with many RGBW (red/green/blue/white) LED...

3d printer ws2812b Marlin
MKS Robin Nano35 - Advanced debugging

Advanced debugging of MKS Robin Nano (STM32) board

If you need to debug your printer's firmware, you've probably read my previous post already. If not, I advice you to read it.

This post is about solving the remaining issues and/or shortcomings with the debugging so that a debugging session is...

3d printer sapphire plus mks robin debug software Marlin
Errors to avoid while replacing 3D printer hotend

Common error to avoid while choosing and replacing a hotend

If you have followed my previous post, you know how to replace a 3D printer hotend.

Yet, I've made it multiple time and I'm now able to list the common errors to avoid, in the hope it'll save you time and money.

Error 1: Buying the

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3d printer hotend upgrade