I discovered that the green plastic I recently started printing with was black light responsive. I looked up the specs for the black lighting I had installed in my PC and found it would probably run OK on the printer’s power supply. I quickly designed some clips in Sketchup and printed them off. The result is a pretty cool visual effect while it is printing:

I’ve been silent the past few days because my new jhead hotend arrived on Tuesday, from hotends.com. I have been far to busy tweaking the printer and actually printing things now to update this site. My printer is running great! Here it is as currently configured: The frame braces as well as the spool holder were printed by the printer itself in 1.75mm natural PLA. In comparison, this is how it looked after the first complete...