Adventures into my hobbies and interests

Mesh leveling with OctoPrint

With Octoprint, Bed Leveler plugin, and a BLTouch/CRTouch/Abl, you can level your bed more accurately. This is very handy for figuring out how level your bed...

August 17, 2022 by nmoody 3D Printers

Vase with color-changing filament

My partner picked out this color-changing filament on our trip to Microcenter yesterday. It’s an Inland PLA called Rainbow 2. There was a regular Rainbow filament...

August 13, 2022 by nmoody 3D Printers

Smoother rolling filament holder

Found this on Thingiverse, a smoother rolling filament holder. The purpose of it is to reduce strain on the filament as its entering the extruder. Printing...

July 30, 2022 by nmoody 3D Printers

Account Security basics

The most important part of security is you the user, not a firewall, or antivirus software but you. Computers can only do what they are programmed...

July 30, 2022 by nmoody Computers

Switching from ESXi to Proxmox

I started using ESXi as a hypervisor at home around 2019 with ESXi 6.0 and used it all the way to 6.7. ESXi itself work great...

July 29, 2022 by nmoody Computers

Pi-hole, the network advertisement, and malicious address blocker

I have been using Pi-hole on my personal network since 2018. I originally set it up as a curiosity to see how it worked as a...

July 29, 2022 by nmoody Computers

Creality is helping and hurting the 3d printing industry all at the same time

Creality has brought affordable printers to the market that work pretty well out of the box. These printers are very capable and produce some astounding results...

July 22, 2022 by nmoody 3D Printers

Filament grinding when there is no clog

I had only been using two filament rolls of black and white Inland PLA since I got my printer. After finally feeling comfortable with my configuration...

July 22, 2022 by nmoody 3D Printers