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I recently purchased the Celestron AstroMaster 130 telescope from an Amazon Warehouse deal. It's mirrors needed collimation(calibration), but otherwise seems like a great piece of kit. It's a Newtonian type telescope - if the mirrors are not properly aligned, or collimated which seems to be the tech... Read More

I have had the BLTouch sensors sitting around for my Monoprice Maker Select Plus and Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus, but have never gotten around to installing them - today is the day. We pass a lot of pitfalls on the way, as I have some trouble with the wiring, the 3D printed bracket I have selected is ... Read More

I have been meaning to try out the custom firmware ADVi3pp for the Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus, and it's many clones, such as the Monoprice MakerSelect Plus, Cocoon Create, Powerspec i3 etc., for a while now. I plan on installing BLTouch sensors in both my printers soon, and this firmware is a require... Read More

I have been toying around adding WiFi to my CNC 3018 Pro with the help of an ESP8266 since my last video. This is merely a proof of concept, but it show it's definently possible for cheap! And this could be expanded to pretty much anything that has a serial connection, such as CNCs, 3D printers, any... Read More

I wanted to take a closer look at the mainboard and controller for the CNC 3018 Pro. It's called Camtool CNC v3.3 and is running a standard Mega328P chip, cheap stepper drivers, and seems to just take gcode commands via serial from the controller board - but what if we replaced the controller with a... Read More

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