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Drone trials in Chitwan

In 2013 we went to the Chitwan national park in Nepal to do some trials for autonmous landscape mapping missions with fixed wing drones.

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Drone trials in Odzalla

In 2013 we went to Odzalla national park in Congo to do some trials for autonmous landscape mapping missions. I am uploading some memories from that trip to share with you.

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Does it ring a bell 🔔 ?

Here is a collection of things that improve printing with clipper when using Cura 5.5. This is the 2nd installment of a series of articles documenting my journey in “upgrading” an old (2019) Creality Ender 5 with Klipper.

The current problem while printing is, that I get a lot of ringing. Let’s find out what causes it.

The printer has a few hardware modifications installed:

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Better Ender 5 Cooling

I have always seen the extruder fan more as a problem than as help. The fan does proounce warping and seems to make the 1st layer to detatch.

However, with access to a Sovol SV07, which is an insanley fast klipper printer, I was suprised to see that they are using a quit noisy and strong fan. So it was time to check if it really makes a difference.

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Cura 5 has Tree Support?

I just figured out that Cura-5 has introduced tree support structures (probably has for some time) and this makes so much more sense. Gone are the times of the massive support structures.

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Cable Management

With a BL-Touch and an accelerometer on the print head, I suddenly need more wires to the extruder (this is stil la bowden drive Ender 5). So working with what I have at hand, I stripped the plugs from an old Kat5 cable and use it as sensor wire.

So I designed this completely not over engineered BL-Touch and and ADLX-345 holder for my Ender 5.

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Cura -- reasonable Anti Warping pad Settings

These settings seem to produce a reasonable result for the

plugins.

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Ender 5 + Klipper + Mainsail

Upgrading and Ender 5 3D Printer with Klipper.

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Create Website Banner with Midjourney

Midjourney is an “AI” system for image generation. It used Discord as user interface.

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macOS action on network change

macOS – with its Posix roots – does come with a couple of useful network services auh as autofs and sshfs to name a few. When moving around, I join different networks and in each network, I ant to have different resources available. The following collection of scripts makes it possible to mount and unmount resources depending on location.

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