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T250 Launch Incoming

Hey everyone,

Over the past three weeks, I took some time off—not just to relax, but to prepare. Prepare for what’s ahead. Because the T250 is finally ready to be shown to the world.

Updates from the Software Front!

Over the past week, I've mainly been focused on making improvements to Klipper. I absolutely fell in love with the real-time bed-level scanning that the BDSensor provides. Seriously, when it works,...

Small Details matter....

Over the past week, I focused on enhancing the resolution and quality of fine details in certain prints. Printing Minatures on an FDM Printer is hard. You're facing issues like:

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Adaptive Z-Offset Measurement

Hey everyone! Sorry things have been a bit quiet from my side this past week. I was still recovering from COVID, and trust me—running a loud CPAP printer right next to you with a pounding headach...

Printing and Printing and Printing....

Last week was Carnival in my hometown, so productivity took a bit of a hit—too much celebrating, and I ended up getting sick. But that didn’t stop me from printing!

For the next few weeks...

Optimizing Input Shapers for High-Speed 3D Printing: Insights & Best Practices

Today, I want to share some of the insights I've gained over the past few years about Input Shapers and their impact on high-speed printing. And to make things easier, I’ve prepared something for...

Why the 3D Benchy Isn’t the Best Test Print for Tuning Your 3D Printer

Many people in our community showcase how they achieve a high-speed, high-quality 3DBenchy. While I genuinely appreciate seeing these fast Benchy shredders, I’ve learned that the 3DBenchy isn’t...

Why do we need Sideblowers?

Over the last four or five weeks, I’ve been asked twice whether the side blowers are truly necessary for the T250, or if removing them would be a good way to save some money. The answer isn’t a...

AliExpress Gem of the Month - February 2025

A new month brings another confession. I seek forgiveness for spending numerous valuable Patreon euros on low-quality Chinese products. However, I have found something that might be intresting for ...

Enhancing Thread Scheduling of Klipper

One of the most frustrating issues I’ve faced over the past few years is the “mcu: timer too close” error. It occurs sporadically whenever a high enough CPU spike happen...

THEOS 1.1.0 Release

Dear Supporters,

Over the past four weeks, I worked on integrating some pretty advanced klipper features into THEOS. Some of them you already saw here on Patreon in Action. Below is an overvi...

Toolhead Cable Management

Last week, my productivity took a hit as I spent most of my time nursing a Covid infection with tea and binge-watching shows. However, by the weekend, I began to feel better and was able to resume ...

Tuning... and tuning... and tuning... and non-linear pressure advance

Over the last days I was struggling getting non-linear pressure advance working on my T250. For those who don't know about it it's basic a way of defining a PA value that behaved stronger at lower ...

Always use proper Filament!!!

About a week ago, I calibrated my T250 to a level where I felt confident fine-tuning a quality profile for it. I began my initial prints and noticed a fuzzy orange skin effect along the outer perim...

Printing an new Set of Z-Joiners on my T250

I was incredibly lucky with my Z-Motors—the embedded leadscrews were 100% straight, resulting in flawless prints without any print bed-related artifacts. However, some of my alpha testers weren�...

AliExpress Gem of the Month - January 2025

Today, I am starting a new series where I will make a confession and seek forgiveness for past mistakes—especially for the numerous valuable Patreon euros I spent on low-quality Chinese stuff. Bu...

Finding the Ideal SoC Board for Pushing the T250 to Its Limits

Over the last 3-4 days, I’ve run into 2-3 sporadic MCU shutdowns with the Error Message: MCU shutdown: Timer too close. The reason for that error is in most situation a bottlenec...

Tuning Pressure Advanced at 1200mm/s

Today I want to share with you one Step of my tuning process of my new T250 3D Printer.

One of the biggest headaches we all face: achieving consistent extrusion—or any extrusion at all—wh...

Working on an Integration of Dmitry Butyugin Advanced Klipper Stuff

After more than a day of programming, I successfully ported Dmitry Butyugin's advanced Klipper features to my own Klipper fork. It was somewhat challenging because his developments were based on a ...

Enhanced THEOS Documentation

Over the past few days, I've received several private messages on Discord regarding THEOS, and I like to share some important updates that address your feedback:

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