I spent yesterday messing around with the new Bambu H2C 3D printer I purchased earlier this month. More on that in a bit.
I have also been shopping. I need new clothes (sigh, groan), and also pocket camera accessories.
I’m heading to a media event later this month, and for the first time in years, I won’t be bringing my regular full-size camera. I have a pocket camera and just ordered a new action camera. Neither are ideal for a mostly-indoors media event, but I think it’ll be okay.
It’s not that I don’t want to bring my typical full-size camera, but we’ll be going to a stadium on the last day and there are clear restrictions about sizing. The options would be to leave the camera in an unsecured holding area at the hotel along with my luggage, or bring it to the stadium where the 5.5″ lens length might not pass the 6″ restriction.
It should pass, or at least the internet says it’s “unlikely” to be a problem, but that’s not always the case. My typical media event lens is a zoom lens that does extend.
So, we’ll see how things go with the pocket cameras.
I’ve been shopping for accessories to make my pocket cameras more versatile and convenient to use. Online reviews have not been helpful, but I guess every frustration I experience is a lesson on what not to do. Why does researching product reviews have to be so grueling?
But at least it’s not as bad as clothes shopping.
Alright, so I decided to run a test print on the Bambu H2C – a copy of the mock electronics enclosure that I modeled a few months ago. I might have forgotten how I designed it, but that’s something I’ll have to work on too.
It was warped only one corner. Why? According to a quick search it could be an adhesion problem. I wiped the plate, set it to print again, saw the same, and stopped the print. That’s not good.
The issue was in the corner with the seam, and it happened where the bottom ends and the enclosure cavity begins.
I changed the infill pattern, relocated it to a different spot on the build plate (but did not wash it with soap and water), wiped it again with a blue shop towel, and printed it again. It looked alright.
I then set the printer to print another part with the left nozzle in blue-grey, and a repeat with the right nozzle in yellow, which was still loaded via the AMS filament switching system.
If it persisted, it’s so faint that I can’t tell if there’s a defect or not.
The blue print was from my X1C a few months ago, the yellow are from the nozzle-changing Vortek system in the H2C, and the blue-grey part is from the left nozzle.
I’m going to clean the plate when I have a chance and then start printing out parts for a project.
Maybe there’s a different issue, but cleaning the plate and trying it again at the same spot should provide some insights. I’m guessing it was a very minor issue that was just exaggerated by the geometry of what I was printing.
*shrug*
My garden needs tending, new review samples just landed, and I’ve got a bunch of gift guide content that I need to wrap up. Maybe over the weekend.
What are you guys working on?
