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A hair-going-into-the-shower-drain-preventer of my very own.

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       I am someone who has a lot of hair. Most of the time, it is a lot of long hair. It's good for a lot of things: keeping my head warm, looking good. But something that it absolutely excels at is clogging my shower drain. I try to be careful and catch as much of it as I can and put it away from the mouth of the drain. But I'm only human and enough gets through that I have to buy a snake cleaner from the hardware store and remove a hairball from the drain every few weeks. There are plenty of solutions for this problem on the market and I have tried a few with medium levels of success. But hey! I am an engineering student with a 3D printer, the world is my oyster, so I'm going to talk about my ongoing process to make the best darn hair-going-into-the-shower-drain-preventer that I possibly can!  A twist and lift shower drain.      Firstly, this is what my drain looks like. I do realize that it is possible to remove the middle to install a Tubshro...
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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 ...
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About My Print Setup

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Hi, I'm Kathryn, a computer engineering student who is having fun with a 3D printer! Why did I decide to get into 3D printing? As cliche as it may sound, TikTok made me buy it. It was the summer of 2021 and I was scrolling through my FYP when suddenly: HIM . I saw that someone had printed out this absolutely magnificent articulated slug in a purple/pink temperature-sensitive filament. I have been trying to print this ever since, but that will be another post. 😒       I work in a university library computer lab that offers 3D printing services to students, but we only print in one material and we do not allow guests to bring their own filament. At this point, I was not totally convinced, but then I learned that it was possible to 3D print in flexible filaments (TPU) and I was SOLD.  I am a fan of Naomi Wu (She's always doing cool things check her out!) and had been watching her release of a conveyor belt 3D printer made by Creality. While the price of the co...
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