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Holiday Break 2021 Upgrades and Issues

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 Howdy! I hope you all had a nice break for the Holidays. I personally am back in school and looking forward to my last year as an engineering student! 🎶It's been a long road gettin' from there to here🎶.  Over my holiday break, I made it a point to include the updates to my printer that I mentioned in my previous blog post: FLASHBACK Future Upgrades As you can see from the screenshot above, my print bed is pretty scratched. This is largely from my difficulties in setting up the direct drive extruder system that I talked about earlier. So, I will be getting a new print bed very soon. I am not quite sold on the glass ones, so I will likely just go for another magnetic print bed.  Additionally, I have a BL Touch bed leveling system. However, with all the issues that I ran into while upgrading to the direct drive, I had to uninstall the BL Touch to help troubleshoot issues. I will likely install it again soon, I think the addition of the Raspberry Pi will make the BL touch ...