4lan @ 4lan @lemmy.world

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Yeah that is pretty cool how Bambu is dealing with it too, but not the same as having full root access to the Linux computer that runs the printer.

I can SSH into my K1 and change things, install programs, etc. I even changed my Start_Print sequence to stop doing all the time-consuming calibration for every print. Sometimes I am just prototyping and dont want 10 min of calibration for a 3 minute print.

I don't think you'll be disappointed. The size of the max has been useful already. did 298mm tall print that would be impossible on those printers. Literally printed myself some small trash cans lol

no, this was a print for myself to test the Chameleon. I don't sell any multicolor prints as of now.

I prefer non-proprietary parts and unlocked software you get with a rooted K1. I can edit my klipper configs directly.

This is not my multicolor-specific machine. It will be used mostly for single color regular prints

Just don't pay MSRP! They often go on sale for $700. Got mine for $680 before tax!

If you do pull the trigger, here is my Creality slicer profile for quiet, yet fast, printing

good question, this was just a test print honestly. My main use case will be doing TPU and PLA for phone cases for my store. Soft inside, hard outside. The tests I have done have the two materials completely fused together and are promising.

most full color prints can, and should, be printed separately and assembled later. I totally agree there, but there are times that isn't ideal.

I made a print that was a dial and small numbers with markings. This would have been a pain to glue 1.5mm wide pieces onto the main part. Multicolor printing made it super easy and the result is clean looking.

I'll probably print mostly single color, but I love having the flexibility

You can use any slicer you like. I have mine connected to Cura, Creality and Prusa slicers with the ability to send and start a print right from the slicers.

I never once set mine up with their Creality cloud app, you can skip that during setup and just do LAN and USB prints.

The key is to root it, which is really easy, then you can install Fluidd and have way more control during prints. You can even change your pressure-advance on the fly. There are tons of mods you can do after rooting such as these

from the looks of this post you can now use octoeverywhere on K1 printers

Overall I love it. If you are into tinkering, which it sounds like you are, you'll like it.

My K1 is about 4x faster than my modded ender 3. I print at 420mm/s max speed on my K1 with 20k mm/s2 max acceleration. It is amazing how fast things finish. Overnight prints are now day prints.

You can get near-perfect prints out of the box, but will want to do some calibration to get better results. There are built in calibration tools in the Creality slicer. There is a VFA problem, but it seems to go away if I print walls above 220mm/s. Printing with polycarbonate is now fully possible and I love it. I print most replacement parts for the printer in PC.

being able to use volcano nozzles is way better than anything proprietary. They are dirt cheap and you can get them in all different sizes.

This thing is fully able to be modded, which I love about it. I've added:

• second side aux fan
• lighter printed hotend housing
• side-spool mounts
• tramming bed knobs
• 270deg door hinge
• lid-riser with LED strips inside

Yeah it's not the prettiest lol. This is 75% size, and 0.25mm layers, which doesn't help. (I just wanted to shorten print time)

I had to use Prusa Slicer because of the custom GCode features, so my settings there are not perfect yet. It also isn't controlling the aux fans properly like Creality slicer.

My normal 1 color benchies are 22 minutes and absolutely perfect, using my finely tuned Creality Slicer profile.

very. I spent the last 3 weeks fiddling with the timing. If you are not willing to troubleshoot and work on it I'd go for a ready-built solution like the AMS. I like the challenge, but definitely underestimated it

Most of it was me not fully understanding what was happening in the filament swap gcode. Once I understood that I was able to tweak settings to make it work. Once I found out certain filaments are just trouble I have had better luck. Still working on getting it to be less picky.

the updated version in April is going to have sensor-less detection of where the filament is in it's path, which will make timing a non-issue. Any Chameleon sold until then will have the hardware needed, and can be updated for free in April. can't waiit

fair point, I swapped my boards and don't regret it

Klipper is the way. No more compiling firmware to make changes, you just edit a config file and restart, which takes 3 seconds.

Are you sure you need a different board though? Might be able to flash klipper with your stock board

Love this app so much. Sonarr, radarr, BitTorrent, etc all accessible in nzb360

I never buy apps, but this one was worth it

Walmart's Onn 4k Android TV box is perfect IMO. Costs $20

You can't game on it, but I never had one issue streaming video

cant tell if this is sarcasm...

Android TV has freed me from watching ads at all, ever.
When I visited family I was shocked how much ads people watch, even on services they pay for

Since it's android you can make it work how you want it to.

Install a different launcher, like Projectivy and you can make your homescreen exactly what you want, no cluttered mess of ads

Get SmartTube for youtube

change what your buttons do with TVQuickActions

My dirt-cheap $20 walmart Android TV box now looks nothing like it did when I first booted it. Completely customized to how I want it to work. I even have it set up so my Disney button makes my livingroom lights dim for movies.

I just got this and it is amazing I love that you can create 'channels' for your apps

being able to select from my subscriptions via SmartTube, or my media categories in Jellyfin, or whatever I want!

The original homescreen was cluttered with essentially advertisements, this is way cleaner

the sponsor-block feature is so dang nice if you watch a lot of podcasts. Sometimes it's like 30 min of ad-reads total

Oh for sure, I figured it would be too specific to me and my chargers so didn't offer

Here is the STL

Good to know!

I use SmartTube, but if they ever block it's functionality I'll switch to local downloads of YT videos using this