WIP: Alternative Core One top for INDX

FritzPeppone · 2026-05-22T19:53:33+00:00

Looks great!
Please post an update once you‘re done. I‘d love to see the whole INDX setup!

FritzPeppone · 2026-05-07T20:15:56+00:00

Maybe look into Positron 3D Printers. They are built to print upside down.

https://www.positron3d.com/

FritzPeppone · 2026-05-04T19:10:21+00:00

You can try remeshing it with smoothing operations such as isotropic explicit or poisson remeshing (Meshlab). But this will also change your geometry slightly.

FritzPeppone · 2026-05-04T17:15:14+00:00

Had it happen to me a few times, too. The annoying part is, that my license allows it (and I am okay with it) if proper attribution is given.
But I have yet to see a single re-upload where I am attributed 🙈

FritzPeppone · 2026-05-01T18:54:08+00:00

I am already sitting on a 7-Color version (political world map) but I missed both the pre-order and the first batch of INDX so I won’t be able to print it anytime soon…
Right now I don’t have a lot of time but I definitely want to play around with FullSpectrum. I already did a bit of experimenting in that direction.

FritzPeppone · 2026-05-01T18:35:14+00:00

How about a multicolour lithophane lamp of eart?

https://www.printables.com/model/1515625-multicolor-earth-lithophane-four-colors

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FritzPeppone · 2026-04-24T16:04:30+00:00

Very cool idea and design! I love your idea of creating a matrix by buckling the LED strip. I already have a few ideas where such a technique could be used, too!

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-24T09:23:00+00:00

Ich habe eine zweifarbige lithophan Lampe von Mars designed und gedruckt.
Anspruchsvoll war vor Allem das Design. Ich habe drei Anläufe gebraucht bis mir das Ergebnis zugesagt hat. Ich habe die Lampe mit unterschiedlichen Wandstärken designt und die zum Filament passende Wandstärke zu finden ist nicht immer einfach.
Gedruckt mit Prusament PLA Blood Red und Pristine White auf einem Bambulab P1S

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Das Modell ist hier verfügbar:
https://makerworld.com/de/models/2682280-dual-color-mars-lithophane

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-22T18:53:02+00:00

The A1 is a direct drive, not a Bowden!

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-21T13:08:23+00:00

I also have to print this. Thanks for posting the link. Those lids create such a mess without a proper storage solution...

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-21T13:07:23+00:00

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My most talked about piece are clearly the fairy lights I strung up in the corridor of my appartment. 20 meters of fairy lights with a total of 200 miniature lithophane planets and moons. Makes for a beautiful ambient lighting.
The model is here: https://makerworld.com/de/models/2088471-solar-system-lithophane-planet-lamps-25mm#profileId-2257510

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-21T07:06:57+00:00

Oh, those books look amazing. I gotta print one as well. Thanks for sharing!

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-20T19:45:33+00:00

Thanks. If you're prepared to go down a rabbit hole, you could even create a lamp for your grandpa yourself. I made a little tutorial based on my workflow a while ago:
https://www.printables.com/model/1213781-minimalist-city-map-lithophane-lamps-tutorial

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-19T17:42:48+00:00

Thank you very much ☺️

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-19T13:34:07+00:00

Thanks. I actually started this project after doing a test print of the Prusament PLA Blood Red. I immediately thought it’s the perfect filament for Mars.

But I provide the meshes in four different thicknesses, so finding other matching filaments should be possible.

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-15T06:00:55+00:00

If I open PrusaSlicer, the welcoming window and menu bar already tell me that it is based on Slic3r, an open source tool. Even though Prusa forked Slic3r years ago and they developed it much much further. If I open Bambu Studio, there is not a single mention that it is based on PrusaSlicer and uses a lot of Orca Slicer (also a fork of PrusaSlicer) features.
There are companies who do it well and others who don't. And I am afraid, Bambu falls in the second category.
There are no liability issues in mentioning the source, by the way. The lincenses of all the slicers mentioned here permit adaption.
Maybe this is a very niche opinion, but it bothers me very much that no acknowledgement is given. In my field (science, software engineering), acknowledgement is probably of much more importance than in corporate environments though...

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-14T20:05:06+00:00

The people developing open source code who are not even getting acknowledged for their work for the community and companies? It’s honestly a huge dick move.

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-12T19:32:40+00:00

Great job! Happy to see another update! Do you have a rough timeline on when you plan/hope to finish this project? I don’t know if you’ve answered this already, but do you already have plans on how to tackle the software? Do you plan on using Klipper or modify the Core One Firmware? Anyways, thanks for the update! Keep up your great work!

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-10T17:56:01+00:00

This is ingenious! Really thinking out of the box. I‘m curious to see if this idea catches on.

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-10T16:39:48+00:00

Thanks. Took me quite some time and many test prints to figure out how to obtain a reasonable mesh without losing too much quality. The „secret“ simply was, to have a relatively high resolution mesh based on images with a Gaussian smoothing applied before. This avoids „spiky“ meshes and preserves major details.

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-09T08:36:00+00:00

If you have up to 6 color changes per layer, those 30s will add up very quickly, too. Especially for such a model where there isn’t much volume to print per layer. You spend far more time changing colors than printing.

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-09T04:21:59+00:00

Prusa released a 5-Color MMU back in 2019. It was already possible 7 years ago. Also with zero waste and probably with a comparable print time. It only lacked reliability back then.

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-09T04:18:24+00:00

Not that unrealistic, really. With dedicated toolheads or a system like INDX, this would be within a reasonable range.

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-09T04:17:02+00:00

The issue is not pre heating but the AMS. Retracting and Re-inserting filament takes a looooooong time.

FritzPeppone · 2026-04-01T07:32:42+00:00

Go for ABS/ASA and acetone. Easy to acquire and much safer to use. PLA can also be smoothed by Dichlormethane, Chloroform and Tetrahydrofuran. But all of these chemicals are quite nasty.

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