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It all works!

Alistair

Good news. Yesterday I managed to get everything working and a case tidied. Today I did some more serious testing. In short the hard work is done and I juts need to get the final writeup done. Yay!

imageThank you to all who have helped or participated. It has ben great working with you. I hope you are as happy with your build as I am. As mine turned out mostly software based around stock hardware I suspect it is not going to be seen as a winner, but it has been enjoyable to create. I have a device that I will actually be using in real life, and perhaps some of my work will carry forward in other people's projects and give more life to a useful little dev board. I will add that I have really enjoyed the challenge of solving all these problems. Some of the issues were so abstract I am surprised I figured it out, but that made it more rewarding when I found solution.

If anyone has any questions that I might be able to help with the feel free to reach out.

  • awesome, Winning is never the intention for me, making something i can use is. (Especially when i am making a custom PCB). though the project I am making for this Security challenge is going to be one of the few exceptions.

  • well done - looks great - 3D printing and PCB making are 2 things I am yet to bite off - and not this time round - but my own hardware construction techniques failed me this time round so I will no doubt have to look at 3D printing soon - what gear do you recommend? Bambu Lab? any other options worth considering.

    Well done on finishing! (I know I will be stressing to get only some part of my stuff working)

  • in reply to saramic

    Bambu Labs are like apple, expensive, but consistent in output, expensive to repair and has a locked in ecosystem with minimum ability to customize . But really good if you dont want the headache of fine tuning settings for reliability and quality.

    I own a ender 3 s1 pro. Using it for 4 years for now.  At my geographical location, its easier to get spares as they are quite standard. Go for creality or Prusa if not for Bambu. 

  • in reply to saramic

    If you are looking for a printer just to print on then I can recommend Bambu printers. They are good value for money. You can get lower cost for the same build volume elsewhere, but the reliability and quality is so much higher. We have a couple of P1S printer at our local hack space where I printed this. They frequently have sales, and at the last Black Friday sale they had there smaller A1 Mini for £140.

    The one hesitation I have if they keep doing things to upset the 3D printing community. They have always walked back a little to find a compromise, but one day that might not happen. For example you can still use a toolchain that is not theirs, but you can not use it alongside there mobile app, and there was a firmware release where this was not possible at all until the stepped it back. They are also strongly discouraging the use of third party hardware addons.