Octoprint Does Not Connect to 3D Printer

Sun 22 Oct 2023

Annoying… Yesterday when I was busy with 3D printing I ran all of a sudden into issues. While printing with the Prusa Mini+ printer I lost the connection between Octoprint (hosted on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W). I noticed first on the web-frontend, that is how I monitor the progress. Raspberry Pi… I was going through the troubleshooting guide accessible from Octoprint. It did not resolve anything; it basically suggested changing the existing settings for Serial Port and Baudrate....

The Daily Print - Airduct and Cable Winder

Sat 21 Oct 2023

Today’s 3D Printing Jobs Today I am running 2 3D print jobs at the same time, a cable winder organizer on the Creality Ender 3 v2 and then an airduct on (and for) my Prusa Mini+ printer. The cable winder job on the Ender printer had a difficult start, first layer was giving issues. It was sticking OK, but the problem was that it was pushing around surplus filament on the print bed....

Working with Hugo, Markdown and HTML

Mon 16 Oct 2023

Adaptions I am busy doing some adaptions to this sites. I initially started designing it with the idea of replacing my Daily update site. But I started re-thinking that idea… How about if this could be the new IamPrinting.xyz site instead? Practical and Ideas Working with Hugo Working with Hugo and in Markdown brings some new challenges. Here below are the two ways of adding images and how to include HTML tags in Markdown....

29 Sep 2023

Fri 29 Sep 2023

Here we go, the new site with the new Hugo theme…

First Thirst

Mon 25 Sep 2023

The First Post… Here we go, I am live with the very first post for this site using this Hugo template - called PaperMod. So far, it is a very interesting theme and I am still discovering it. I will just put in some random words to test the search function: rollerblades, mountaintop, candy bar…