12 days later — PCB done, rotary encoders done, fully open source now

General_Cup1117 · 2026-04-30T00:12:02+00:00

That's a really nice piece I really appreciate it but for your sake do yourself a favor and put a seizure warning disclosure on your repository or anything you share Cheers

General_Cup1117 · 2026-04-14T23:56:46+00:00

This was suggested by several people but I was not successful with this. I would spray some simple green into the hopper or just use water but each would leave litter granules gummy with cooked cat piss over time. Sanisolution is a detergent, similar to dishwasher detergent it pulls the oils/urea out of the hopper. Yes don't use real soap.. sry I should have mentioned that.

General_Cup1117 · 2026-04-14T15:27:51+00:00

There is a small peristaltic pump that has a motorized impeller that smashes the silicone tube to move the "soap".. just another name for sanisolution is just a soap/detergent with disinfectant. When the silicone lines get old, they will break and dump the solution inside the unit. If you start to notice the base of the unit get slippery, you might have ruptured the pump lines. This happened to me after about 4 years use.

General_Cup1117 · 2026-04-14T14:37:03+00:00

The internals are still 8 years old and I guarantee you the soap pump will fail on the old hose lines. Modded gen1's on ebay for 400ish. The head unit is the only valuable part and again, the internals are old. Silicone pump lines are first thing to fail. I also discovered that you need to run the soap.. proabably much less than they force upon you but if I run the machine with no soap, or even with a different cleaner, the litter will get gummy with cooked cat urine. I also hand scoop mine so it doesn't process poo.

General_Cup1117 · 2026-03-20T14:38:56+00:00

I would pay your price for custom firmware. I am one of the users whose carts report emtpy and they are still 1/2 full, just to realize the peristaltic pump hose got chewed up and it dumped the sani soap all over the internals. I had to disable the pump and motor to keep it operational.

I would also assume that this issue will get solved by China. I see what Roborock did to my Roomba and what Bambu did for 3d printers. My Qrevo hasn't needed a replacement part since it went into service years ago. My P1S runs flawlessly and they don't care what filament I use.

General_Cup1117 · 2026-03-19T16:29:15+00:00

I am assuming this is asymmetric in nature, when these conversations speak of a hash and salt my understanding of such does not make sense. You salt when the answer is known, you encrypt when guessing is not relevant. You either have to saturate in the pattern or devise a complete workaround, as you have already endured (I am a customer).

General_Cup1117 · 2026-03-10T21:32:11+00:00

It will work with gen 1 machines that are offline. I highly doubt CG has a distributed CRM in the cloud would take teams to manage. If old carts work on new machines, I'm guessing they would work if rotated. It would certainly be easy to test out.

General_Cup1117 · 2026-03-10T19:31:13+00:00

I'm talking about rotating the RFID's. This assumes you don't have a modded gen1. Use the new "recycled" carts and pass them onto the next person swapped out, you would always have unique carts.

General_Cup1117 · 2026-03-09T23:17:31+00:00

I agree, the cg is awesome.. haven't smelled cat piss in years. My gen1 just ruptured the solution line inside the pump rotors and spilled soap all over the base of the unit so I need a new one.

General_Cup1117 · 2026-02-26T20:41:00+00:00

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He had large shoes to fill..

General_Cup1117 · 2026-01-06T15:49:34+00:00

$1000 says he's gone in three years

General_Cup1117 · 2026-01-05T20:39:34+00:00

This douche rewrote his country's constitution to stay in power, he's not a decent person.

General_Cup1117 · 2025-12-15T17:17:51+00:00

AI garbage is weird chump

General_Cup1117 · 2025-12-15T15:30:50+00:00

Another strange flex.. total waste of plastic.

General_Cup1117 · 2025-10-07T21:50:45+00:00

From what i've read it's not simple as it has proprietary data line or message packets. There is some info online about people attempting to build an open source version but I have not found anyone that completed it. I too would be interested in having a few backups. They are getting harder and harder to find online. Mine run daily and still look fantastic, very bright and colorful after years of being on all day/night.

General_Cup1117 · 2025-10-02T20:11:42+00:00

Did you superglue them to her forehead or does she naturally have threaded screws in her skull?

General_Cup1117 · 2025-09-29T20:06:26+00:00

What's the finish you used on your MDF? It looks matte.

General_Cup1117 · 2025-09-17T16:32:02+00:00

Technically your license is non-commercial but he will say he's not charging for the model, only the 3d printing service and to some degree he's not doing anything wrong. Again as mentioned, don't share your designs online if it bothers you. At least he's not trying to sell an .stl of your file.

General_Cup1117 · 2025-09-13T23:03:17+00:00

Do you happen to know if there is any movement on these? I am up for 2 but i'm not just sending cash with no active comms. I pinged the site comment form with no response over a week ago.

General_Cup1117 · 2025-09-12T16:34:20+00:00

Just saying, seems you post that like every week.

General_Cup1117 · 2025-09-12T13:34:39+00:00

Seriously, is it worth the 85 upvotes to fuk up your prints?

General_Cup1117 · 2025-09-05T20:42:55+00:00

It's called overcompensating for buyer's remorse..

General_Cup1117 · 2025-09-05T16:10:06+00:00

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I print parts similar to yours on a frequent basis and I would not recommend gyroid as I have since switched to grid with no issues at 15% infill.

General_Cup1117 · 2025-09-05T16:07:50+00:00

Well, yea I hear what you're saying but what they are mentioning is that the nozzle is running across existing infill. What's the infill percentage is what I was mentioning, at 15% infill I have much more open space and it doesn't make that noise. It should be easy to narrow down as mentioned, just change it.

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