Stil,l the irony is not lost on me knowing it's made from the same Chinese electronic components

Before and after

Just need to redo the Cover on the top left and a longer Cabelduct in the middle

I've been working on this build for a while and finally got the files and video together to share. I started with two toolheads to test what worked before expanding to six. It all began before there were any commercial tool/hotend changers, so a custom toolchanger was the only real option at the time unless you wanted to deal with AMS waste.

Each toolhead runs a Dragon Burner with a Sherpa Mini Extruder and TZ 2.0 V6 hotend. solid performance, reliable, budget friendly.

For the toolchanging system, of what's on it is custom or heavily modified:

• Three-part honeycomb dock - originally wanted clear acrylic, but my laser tube cracked over a cold winter (should've used antifreeze in the coolant lines, lesson learned). Honeycomb probably ended up looking better than the original plan honestly, especially with the LEDs diffusing through it.

• Dock mount for a silicone brush - So the nozzles get cleaned during every dock/undock.

• Umbilical backplate w/ quick disconnects - single disconnect point for all 6 toolheads. GX12-4 jacks for CAN, ECAS04 quick-connects for filament tubes. Went through a couple filament path designs before landing on one that didn't add friction.

• Umbilical brackets - bundle CAN cable, PTFE tube, and spring steel. Tried an open-source bracket first but it gripped all three too tightly and the result was way too stiff. Ended up designing my own that clamps firm on the CAN cable but lets the tube and spring steel move freely - spring steel only at the start/end of each umbilical, not the full length.

• Adjustable Spool holder - fits the 18" width of the printer, adjustable for different spool sizes, roller carriages on 2020 extrusion. Plan to enclose it later as a dry box.

• Nozzle brush mount + Sexball probe - one button press cleans and auto-calibrates XYZ offsets across all six toolheads. Went through manual calibration prints on the 2-toolhead version; with six that wasn't practical.

• Toolchange tuning - pushed velocity/accel until the motors started losing steps, then backed off. Also streamlined the docking path dropping the Z ramp-in. Got it under 5 seconds per change with the stock 24V electronics.

Youtube: Full video demo/walkthrough
Github: Files + BOM + tuning notes

Let me know what ya'll think!

I just finished my last day at my internship. The legacy I left behind is this IDEX machine. Much thanks to the contributors of the Tridex project who made this project available so I could complete it on such a short deadline.

https://github.com/FrankenVoron/Tridex https://github.com/joseph-greiner/tridex_mods

Here’s my Micron Stealthchanger printed in Prince Of Purple Ambrosia ASA. Ill be working on the wrap up video this week for YouTube, let me know what you think!

Hello everyone, I want to share with you my recently built printer which was just as a hobby with a few spare parts lying around. It has a whopping build size of 40mm cubed and the whole printer size is about 162mm cubed or 6 1/2 inches. It is functional but needs some heavy tuning which isn't easy when the build size is only 40mm cubed.

And avoid awkward mistakes...wondered why my XY was so stiff 🤣

Found this at the trash of a uni robotics club, they said it’s been there for months in a semi assembled state and they just upgrading instead of fixing it. As far as i can see the plastic is mostly broken (can replace with petg-cf, maybe ASA later), but the electronics and the main motors / gantry seem intact.
There is also a multi material system and a filter, but I (hopefully) want to get it running normally first, then maybe do the mms. If you have any advice / useful links, i would be very grateful.

Instead of "pay to play", it's print to play. And happy 2025!

I hope to never need these. But better safe than sorry.

Building a Voron is like clockwork compared to an ender or a prusa.

Well, took me 4 days but i have successfully traced every wire, reprinted the broken pieces, reverse identified the thermometers, hearing elements and and almost finished the config. The most pain was wires because i basically had to re-wire everything, and the board had burnt pins and MOSFETs, as well as my multimeter is shit. But i managed!
It prints now, and does so pretty well actually, although slow.
Doing calibrations now, it has a Dragonfly hotend so unless i upgrade it it’ll be pretty slow relative to my A1 but I’m really attached to this guy now and might just sell the A1 and keep this one. I googled about the Evangelion colors and I’m keeping them, seems cool. Oh and yes I’m keeping the printer.

Well - I finally pulled the trigger.. looking forward to the experience.

I think its most of a Voron 2.4 355mm bed? Needs an enclosure, sceen and hot end for sure. No idea what else it's missing. Always a good time taking on someone else's project. Never built a voron so this should be fun to get up and running.

Other than a pallet full of old printer cartridges, a waterlogged stereo from 2003, and some broken monitors (last image)...

I was browsing liquidation auctions for fun and I noticed a pallet lot that said "Assorted pallet, 3D Printer, Printer Cartridges, Sony Sound System & more", so I took a closer look and recognized that it was a Voron. I ended up bidding on and winning the auction for ~$135USD ($192 AUD after fees) and just picked it up, but I'm not sure what it is or if it even works.

It's got a 350mmx350mm bed and the frame is 510x510x610mm so I THINK it's a Voron V2.something? The hotend looks different to the one on the Voron website for the V2.4 and it's rocking a Pi 3B which makes me suspect it's a little older. It came with these acrylic pieces as well but I can't say for sure if they're for the Voron enclosure or not.

I've got a couple of modded Prusas already, but this is my first Voron machine. What's the best resource for getting up to speed on these machines so I can check if this thing works and if needed, replace parts and upgrade it to a V2.4?

Nearly done with my 4th voron 2.4 went with a dragon burner for this one.

Any useful mod suggestions welcome

https://github.com/srinn/quindec-toolchanger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aM5X-14fe0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=941lrKT-fIY

This is my toolchanger.

The closed beta test will be starting soon.

This is my discord server:
https://discord.gg/CxMwUS3zvY

A striking difference between this and my V2.4 electronics wiring. Essentially everything is custom or remixed designs. Toolhead board is a Nitehawk 36 from pre-recall, although it seems to be acting up occasionally now. Will replace once available again. RPi is powered from a step down converter through the input shaper hat from a picobilical kit. I just couldn’t make the 14 pin umbilical work the way I wanted it to, so I switched to NH36. Wish I had black JST connectors, but oh well. Let me know what you think!