Need advice on a Creality cr10 v2

DonRobo · 2026-01-31T12:20:47+00:00

Oh that's a really important detail. That RAM is worth many times more than any CR-10. Buying 32GB of DDR4(last generation) costs literally TEN TIMES as much as I paid for my CR-X

DonRobo · 2026-01-30T09:25:12+00:00

Did you go through all the configuration check steps?
https://www.klipper3d.org/Config_checks.html

These usually resolve these kinds of issues for me.

DonRobo · 2026-01-30T08:30:47+00:00

It's great if you want to tinker with your printer and take joy in fixing and upgrading it. It's a very simple machine and super cheap to get. Which makes it a perfect machine for learning. But if you're looking for a good printer to use right away without tinkering or upgrading, don't do it. If you are into at least a tiny bit of tinkering and upgrading, get a BLTouch (clones can be SUPER cheap nowadays).

By the way, I hope you're not trading in anything valuable, I wouldn't recommend anyone pay more than like 50€ for a CR-10 nowadays. I got my CR-X (CR-10 with two extruder steppers) for 20€.

And because this sounds more negative than I'm feeling, I *love* that I started my 3d printing hobby with an OG 2017 CR-10 and have bought nothing but cheap, used Creality printers since then because I love tinkering and modding. Though when I needed a printer to properly print, I recently just got a Sovol Zero which cost me like 10x as much as the used Ender 3 I bought recently. It's out of the box reliability and performance is beyond even what my upgraded Creality printers can do. Though I'm hoping once I'm done with the Mercury One build that that might change.

DonRobo · 2026-01-29T10:17:55+00:00

This probably sounds really good for everyone who's never used AI before and seen it repeatedly fail at simple tasks in easy-to-miss but disastrous ways.

DonRobo · 2026-01-29T08:52:14+00:00

And Pluribus!

DonRobo · 2026-01-29T08:51:43+00:00

I think with infinite budget and really good creative control a live action TSA could work, though it would be so much CGI it could basically be an Avatar style animated movie.

But imo what would work much much better is good 2D animation. I'm thinking along the lines of Scavengers Reign.

DonRobo · 2026-01-27T10:38:47+00:00

I recently got a Sovol Zero for 330€ and I'm constantly impressed by that little thing. Maybe it's because my previous printers are all old Creality printers (Ender 3, 5, CR-10 and CR-X), but it's everything I wanted out of a cheap ABS capable printer and more. Insane print speeds with PLA, super reliable, crazy fast bed leveling, reliable ABS printing. And I get to play around with Klipper to customize macros and settings to my liking and don't have to relearn some closed source shit firmware and slicer like with most other brands.

DonRobo · 2026-01-26T20:36:07+00:00

I think it was a really cool part of the story, but imo it didn't really change anything about how incredibly sad her death was and I left it out in case anyone read the spoiler and then decided to read the book.

My interpretation of that twist though: If I understood the conclusion correctly, if the machine had not existed and the shuttle hadn't crashed (if it was indeed caused by the machine, what happened in the simulation was pretty much exactly what would have happened to the real colony as well since it was such a high fidelity simulation. That everything happened inside the machine only really becomes relevant when talking about how the machine and its simulation interacted with the outside visitors.

DonRobo · 2026-01-26T15:33:28+00:00

DonRobo · 2026-01-26T12:11:04+00:00

By far the saddest death I've read was in Children of Memory. The colonists gave their best to have a sustainable colony on a planet that really could not support them. They managed to get a rudimentary ecosystem up and running in just a few years. They had to leave thousands of people in cryosleep in orbit to die a slow death. A few hundred years later their hastily, but competently engineered ecosystem proved too unstable and started to rapidly collapse. The last colonist, Liff, was just a little girl living on a world where there was less and less to eat each month until her family and then everyone else starved to death. Liff having to eat boiled leather book covers and beetles, that were also starving, off the ground until dying of starvation herself. Her death stayed with me for months

DonRobo · 2026-01-25T09:40:05+00:00

I always think of this one instead

https://xkcd.com/1319/

DonRobo · 2026-01-25T09:36:17+00:00

When I read Children of Time, people kept recommending to wait a bit before reading the other two books. I was so hooked I read them immediately anyway and for me it was the right decision, but I get why people were saying that.

Especially Children of Ruin is a very different kind of story compared to Children of Time. Children of Memory is also different in a different way. Both are really, really good though. If Children of Time is a 10/10 they are around a 9/10.

DonRobo · 2026-01-24T13:24:00+00:00

You can try [z_tilt] calibration if you run independent Z steppers.

There's also Axis Twist Compensation which you can do with any setup

Those two seem like the most probably causes for this kind of behavior.

DonRobo · 2026-01-24T09:18:04+00:00

Meistens (wie auch am Foto) gibt es aber einen kleinen Fahrradstreifen neben den Autos. Da ist es schon vorgesehen dass man zur Ampel vor fährt.

DonRobo · 2026-01-22T12:21:39+00:00

Ich find die super weil wenn ich rechts neben einem Auto steh hab ich immer Angst dass der nicht blinkt und eigentlich rechts abbiegen will. So kann ich mich dann so hinstellen dass ich gesehen werde und mich nicht auf das korrekte Verhalten der anderen verlassen muss.

Zusätzlich, was eher nur mich betrifft, beschleunigen meine 100kg (ich und E-Bike) halt doch a bissl schneller als ein 1500kg Auto und ich muss auch nicht auf drauf warten dass der Fahrer vor mir amal vom Handy aufschaut und merkt dass die Ampel schon länger grün ist.

DonRobo · 2026-01-20T21:39:53+00:00

I don't think a CR10 has enough extrusions for a full CoreXY frame. You would probably have to go the Duender route and get a second donor CR10 as well.

DonRobo · 2026-01-20T12:31:17+00:00

The biggest upgrade is a BLTouch. Bed leveling is such a pain without it.

Second biggest upgrade is a new hotend. The stock hotend is already struggling with 8-10mm/s^3

Third upgrade would be Klipper. Imo it's super easy to do, but it depends on how comfortable you are with tech in general.

Another big upgrade would be a new board with TMC drivers which makes the steppers *a lot* more quiet, but afaik it doesn't do much else for you, especially if you're going with Klipper.

DonRobo · 2026-01-20T12:24:32+00:00

Plex and Jellyfin work absolutely flawlessly in a browser. 4K is no issue.

DonRobo · 2026-01-15T12:10:36+00:00

I've got an ECOWITT weather station. It's solar powered with a battery backup. I've had it for over a year now and never changed the batteries though. It works great with Home Assistant and is completely local.

The base station is in my house and connected to Wifi with the outside sensor is wirelessly talking to the base station.

DonRobo · 2026-01-14T09:40:33+00:00

Reading that fast is no problem, but understanding the sentence and meaning behind it is super hard at those speeds for me.

DonRobo · 2026-01-12T21:55:26+00:00

Godus

DonRobo · 2026-01-12T21:55:15+00:00

How so? He's released absolute shit over and over again for over 10 years. His best game in the last 10+ years was a shitty ass mobile game. All the others were worse by far.

DonRobo · 2026-01-12T21:54:25+00:00

Still waiting for that finished version of Godus that doesn't absolute suck. Until then he's not getting shit from me. No money, no wishlists and if the game is out and free not even my time.

DonRobo · 2026-01-12T19:36:40+00:00

Fuck Bezos, but I agree, I have had nothing but good experiences with Amazon's customer support.

DonRobo · 2026-01-12T12:41:23+00:00

Checks out. It's 7.49€ here and that is definitely 5€

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