Hiya

I've got a edimax dongle you can have if you like, or probably a spare Pi3,
if that's easier.

Probably got a $GB card someplace too, I'll have a poke around in the
office.

Cheers
Andy


On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:34 PM Edward Watson <m...@edwardwatson.co.uk>
wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Earlier this month a number of space folk banded together to collect
> donations for a new space 3D printer. The printer, a Lulzbot Mini 1,
> was offered at a very good discount albeit over a tight window of
> opportunity. Anyhew, it was funded pretty quickly, brought and
> delivered over the weekend. I was asked to help set it up once it has
> arrived and I finished initial setup yesterday. As a bonus, it seems
> to have arrived with spools of assorted colour 3mm filament also.
>
> Currently, a laptop is needed to operate the printer via USB but we'll
> add a wifi-accessible webgui via a RasPi at some point soon. In the
> meantime, users can print from the Dell netbook setup next to the
> printer or their own laptop with the Lulzbot software. The software is
> on a USB stick next to the printer and is pretty user friendly.  A
> wikipage has been made-up to serve as a shared reference point [1].
> Users should feel free to update the page as they find the need. For
> now I have fitted the sample length of 3mm lime green filament over a
> 'host spool' for testing which only has a few meters left. The host
> spool is labelled UV-purple (thats white with a UV colour change to
> purple!) so thats the default next colour after the sample runs out.
> We have the most of UV purple spools (3 overall), plus light and dark
> greens (x2), pink, blue and UV red. We should aim to keep these
> air-sealed as long as possible to keep moisture out of the material.
>
> The print quality is very good and combined with the reliability the
> Lulzbot printers are known for, it should make 3D printing more
> accessible to all.
>
> Cheers,
> Nordin
>
> P.S. if anyone has a spare microSD card or an edimax nano wifi dongle
> to donate to the cause, please ping me; its for the Pi-powered webgui.
> I have a Pi v2B but only have 2GB cards which are too small for the
> Octopi build.
>
> [1] https://wiki.57north.org.uk/index.php/Projects:LulzBot_Mini_3D_Printer
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