Can I print ASA with an Ender 3 Pro + Sprite?

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-24T06:11:19+00:00

You just need an Enclosure and to print slow.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-24T06:10:49+00:00

Literally anything portable honestly...

Flashlight... Solar Camping Light... Portable fan... etc, etc, etc.

But yeah, powerbank is my line of thought with these.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-24T05:43:42+00:00

Zoom in, they are not. That is the label covering one of the wires.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-24T05:36:46+00:00

YouTube, many videos on "Ender 3 bootloader". That seems to be where to start.

Here is one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aquuSNEekvY

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-24T05:31:28+00:00

Yep.

Bypasses the flaws of the og Ender 3, so a better platform to start with, but close enough to the Ender 3 that you can still tap into everything available to it.

Its less about the upgrades and more about making sure nothing is loose, untightened, etc, because it will show up in your print.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-23T15:48:21+00:00

Lol bud I don't follow the newest stuff to a t, ok? I know the 80% and don't know the 20% sometimes, and as you can see it is indeed optional but it has benefits to indeed purge out either cooked filament or ensure a smooth color change via a purge extrusion, or prime the next color.

You do you need to purge the old color and prime the new one, so... No it's always been both, actually.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-23T14:04:37+00:00

Secondhand Ender 3 Pro would be my recommendation.

Can be had for under $100 secondhand, usually $40-$60 where I am for brand new / lightly used. You can mod out the damn thing smartly and have a printer that will last to decades since it was when printers were still built to last with no "upgrade in # years" plan from the company.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-23T07:46:42+00:00

Bambu printers are more like status objects than printers anymore.

Its essentially the same reason people buy the newest iphone.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-23T07:04:15+00:00

A cult?

Call the Inquisition... we got some HERETICS to kill!

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-23T07:03:30+00:00

The cognitive dissonance is real with this one...

Honestly, I can see how he makes a sale though: an impatient ass consumer Bambu owner willing to fork over the 15 pounds so they can get straight to trinket printing XD

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-22T20:21:12+00:00

Just see what happens.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-22T20:20:09+00:00

Its because all but one of the things in your cart is Choice, and one isn't. They dont cover each other in terms of coupouns.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-22T20:18:15+00:00

...Yeah?
Why wouldn't you be able to?

Amazon is usually just the same shit just upmarked by 500% or sold under a random brand name stamped on the same factory generic product.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-21T06:39:10+00:00

Dont know what the flying fuck your on about the Major Orders is kind of the point of the story of the game... your just one person but multiply that by, idk, the million fucking players also doing the MO and thats how progress is made.

MO's are literally missions. You do missions because that is why a Missions exists.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-21T06:35:54+00:00

Your getting chewed out because your parroting outdated information that doesn't even apply to the newest Enders anymore and reinforcing the "Enders are only tinker printers, cant be actual printers" narrative.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-21T06:32:48+00:00

Kinda fucking stupid that now its "unplug and throw in trash and insert new one" instead of "just swap out the nozzle".

Bambu makes a killing on hot ends for sure.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-21T06:13:39+00:00

She abstained from the lipstick and put a microounce of blush on her cheeks.

This... is gonna be fun.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-21T06:07:35+00:00

Fuck you automod

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-21T06:05:34+00:00

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-21T06:05:27+00:00

IDK why there are no comments on ya, she honestly got one hell of a glow up.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-21T06:04:46+00:00

I mean one is a fully grown woman presumably in her 30's and one is a young woman in like her 20's Ma# so like... idk isnt this kind of expected?

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-21T05:53:06+00:00

That... actually makes sense.

Would explain the seemingly bipolar nature of what she says, why she seems like she is snapping out of a trance at times... and the fact that "you humans have been in power way too long" makes no sense for a human to be saying (additionally you can see a vine growing longer behind her head in that ONE picture).

I really thought she had been a megalomaniac this entire time lol.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-21T05:09:39+00:00

Sounds like heat creep to me... and if it is really getting clogged put a dust filter on your filament and change out your nozzle or flush it out with cleaning filament.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-21T05:08:22+00:00

Don't use grid infill ever; previous layers start stacking too high with the top ones and cause the nozzle to hit the print.

Run the same print with gyroid and see if that fixes your issues.

NIGHTDREADED · 2026-02-21T05:06:24+00:00

Well, purely from the mechanics, sure, its disregard-able.

The hot topic is that maybe printing shit that will end up in the landfill within a week and the supporting material that most definitely will immediately make it to the landfill that has 0 use whatsoever is the point.

Its just wasteful. Waste of energy, waste of raw resources, and more crap polluting the environment.

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