I toyed abit more with PinkyPi last night and printed out a slightly modified case as well as started to mix some colors from my 3D printer.
Check out the progress in our forums!
PinkyPi v1.1b – New Cases
3D Printing with wood filament?
With a typical blend of 70% polymer and 30% wood fibers, these exotic filaments will push your printers capabilities.
Have you printed anything with wood filament? What brand did you use and what were your settings?
PinkyPi 1.1 is on the hot bed!
I made just a couple very small changes to the case layout for PinkyPi 1.1, a small groove to line up the sections abit better and closing up the micro USB and HDMI ports a little.
I do still want to do some more design to the inside of the base, to hold the battery charging module firmly in place, another notch or two to help secure the layers / sections together, some possible bracing in the middle layer and a possible redesign of the A and B buttons.
Building my Christmas light display
I’m working on a walk through of all my Christmas lights and Props I used in last year as well as this years show. This can all be found in our Community Forums.
My Christmas Light display and props
Fix stringing on your Ender 3
I came across this video and wanted to share. Having stringing issues on your Ender 3? Try this in your slicer settings!
Creality Ender 5!
Creality has announced the Ender 5 as a new addition to their lineup, with a larger build volume of 220x220x300, magnetic bed and the bed moves only on the Z axis where as the X and Y are at the top of the frame.
OctoPrint-TFT for Raspberry Pi Touch Screens
Setting up OctoPrint-TFT on your Raspberry Pi can be found in our community forums.
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PinkyPi v1 together!
I finally got PinkyPi v1 put together and booting! I’ve played a few games on it so far to test everything out, though I am having audio issues. I fear I broke the negative wire going to the speaker during assembly.
Check out the build log in our forums!
PinkyPi
My Arduino based WS2811 RGB Christmas light show setup.
I’m working on a full write up of my Christmas light show from 2018, my second year doing Christmas lights.
You can find the article in our forums.
I’ve also provided the Arduino source code I used in my setup, for both Relay control as well as WS2811 RGB LED control.
This software interfaces with Vixen 3 running on a computer in my garage and allows Vixen to talk to the Arduinos and control my display.
My Thingiverse Profile
Find me on Thingiverse, and get all the files I’ve made in my various projects.
I’m still new to the hobby, but adding items as often as possible.
My Thingiverse Profile