oh this is so weird. so very weird. look at this picture in particular. Look at the layers weaving up and down well before you get to the big ridges, when they still are... semi-normal. It's not corner curl, it's happening where the bottom is actually still flat. What the actual fuck.
solarbird
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Yeah, exactly this.
You could also make it more colourful safely for the moment by filling the letters with different colours of play-doh.
There are a lot of places you can get usable PCs for stuff like 3D printing for a lot less money. For most of this stuff, most decent-quality 10-year-old machines are fine - it doesn't require a lot of computing power.
And if you're near a Microcentre, you can often get Ender 3 (very entry level) printers for as low as $80 plus tax. It's in-person only though.
But I think I very much like the idea of checking out your local libraries, which generally have computers and sometimes have 3D printers you can use for free or nearly-free. You'll most likely have to supply your own filament, but you can get started on that for $20, so that's something to think about.
Yeah, if you actively like to tinker, the Ender 3 series will give you every opportunity. And sometimes will require it. xD (My 3V2 hasn't really required it, but holy shit is it not stock anymore and I have learned a lot making it that way.)
Seriously though, the Ender 3 community and mods availability is unsurpassed. These things are truly the Model T of printers for both better and worse, and I'm glad I started here, it's been educational as hell and that's part of what I wanted. And it's a bit of a hotrod at this point! Because I made it so. :D
Yeah replies are being a little odd for me too, sometimes I can reply from mastodon sometimes I can't, I can generally reply from kbin, but kbin is super-new so I kinda expect it to be kinda flakey for a while? but I like it's interface and can be patient.
Anyway, good luck!
If the extruder is clicking, it's able to grasp the filament. It's that it's trying to move it forward, literally can't, and it slips and makes that click. That also grinds down the filament at the wheel as well.
I've printed fine with eSun PLA+ on an Ender 3 V2, it's a very straightforward filament in my experience. Not my favourite, but it's fine. (Their cleaning filament by contrast is excellent and I recommend it highly.) I would take apart the entire filament path and make sure it is incredibly clean, because this really sounds to me like a recurring clog issue caused by some particulate matter, which can include extraheated filament hat no longer wants to melt right.
I build everything (including our homebrew media server) but for a NAS I still just bought a Synology box. Part of that is the main purpose of the box is to be a RAIDed repository for automatic workstation backups and I was willing to pay for a known-good turnkey device that talks to everything in the world right out the gate.
I haven't regretted it once.
People are seeing that get reverted too, according to several reports on Mastodon. It's reverting back to old versions of posts, comments, etc.
Oh yeah, great tools. The old mechanical ones, though?Just as good. According to people I know, anyway. The cheap digital ones in particular are still great for 3D printing stuff but not necessarily actually as precise as a high-quality old analogue caliper.