Say hello to Edna

I’ve had a 3D printer around the place since 2012. A couple of weeks ago I got my second one. The decision was driven by the results that I’d seen it was capable of, and the unhappy realisation that I would never be able to get my Ultimaker to print to the same quality.

This is my favourite picture of Una my Ultimaker original. I took it in 2012 when I Una and I delivered a seminar about 3D printing. I think the image has a touch of “adoration of the magi” about it.

Anyhoo, time moves on and although Una still works fine (she’s printing something at the moment) I’ve not found a way of persuading her to print fine detail. This is almost certainly my fault. I’ve had several goes at rebuilding the print head but never managed to get the output as good as I now know is possible with one of these devices.

“Edna the Ender” is an Ender 3 Version 2 with the Bltouch auto levelling. She prints very quietly (although she does have noisy fans). She was quite easy to assemble and has produced some very nice prints “right out of the box”. I’m looking forward to finding out what else she can do.