We hit a major milestone over the weekend 🎉🎉🍾🤩We finally have a moving stepper motor! It’s not fast or strong but there is lots of room for improvement.

New Substack about the Infini-Z: https://t.co/EJNPVndbhY

And the finished product. Always amazing how good a klipper print is even with out tuning

And a look from the web control and phone screen interfaces during print...

Okay, it’s not the prettiest thing but we are printing dual filament!!

Got the raft to print but then hit an out of bounds instruction, so seems the max and min limits on the x axis need to be changed

This has been more annoying than I thought it would be. Had to override the homing and bed levelling macros to ensure we are using the extruder with the probe when we are probing 🙄... Think its almost all there now.

Ah of course it's because we haven't changed the start gcode in our Cura profile, that explains it 🤬

hmm 🤔for some reason Cura dual color mode keeps making the T1 extruder the primary as it starts,which results in the printer trying to home with no probe and jamming into the bed. At least we know the emergency stop is working 🤣

Alright, fixed the camera angel and web layout. Calibration is almost done and then we can print 🤞

It blows my mind that this is all running from a $130 android phone and has full web interface, camera stream, touch screen interface and remote access via VNC and VPN 😍

View from the web control panel with streaming camera doing a extruder PID tune. Excuse the camera angle, the phone is propped up on the side of the printer 😅

Okay, it looks like all the basics are functional, lets see if we can actually print something :D

It’s alive!!

Alright not a lot of info out there on running klipper on the sv04 and idex config on klipper is a bit hairy, but just found https://t.co/1kAf8cJKz9 which looks like it does most of my work for me 🥳🎉

Finally have QuineOS building and running on Pixel 4a and OnePlus5 phones, today lets see if we can get Klipper running the Sovol SV04 IDEX from these phones 🧐

[Cont.1/1] The solution was to make the thread angle "negative". This way when the thread is loaded, the ladder and Z-screw attract rather than push themselves away. By making the threads directional, printability is ensured, and the Infini-Z printer development can be continue!

Few weeks ago an issue was mentioned where the 60deg. thread angle pushed the plastic thread "ladder" away from the Z-screw. Back then this issue was patched up with a bracket and development could continue, but we knew this was not ideal. Today we have a solution! [Continues]

Looks like QuineOS is getting a camera app 😍

[cont.4] Creating a new thread profile that is both printable and usable is a lot of work, so instead it was elected to simply make a bracket that keeps the ladder from bending. It also uses the same screw that is already holding the "barrel" in place!

[cont.3] This could have been resolved by making a new type of thread profile that has a "negative" thread angle. This would pull the lader towards the screw, and it would solve the problem. (Picture shows a positive thread angle)