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Today there was a large delivery of filament, so the stock of black, white, neutral and red filament (PLA and ABS) is back up. This stock is also on new spools, packaged each in a seperate box.

Having your printer run autonomously can have some advantages. For one, you don't need to have your PC running the whole time. Or you can use your PC without worrying to accidently cancel your print. Finally running of SD may run smoother than transferring many lines of gcode quickly over USB. In any case, there are some solutions to get your printer to run autonomously or stand-alone.

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This is our new pre-crimped thermistor wire. Still using ptfe insulated copper wire, but the leads of the thermistor are covered with fiberglass sleeves. This improvement reduces the change of failure while printing because of melting wiring. You can use kapton tape to fix the thermistor to your hotend.

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Stefan Oosterwold is building a very neat and very large delta printer. It is based on
Megatronics V3.0 and has a build volume of 300mm diameter by 600mm height. It will have
three extruders cooled with water cooling. By using larger stepper motors with direct drive
Stefan expects to be able to reach very high speeds

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I have released a new Marlin version for both Minitronics and Megatronics. Also the quick start guides have been updated. This release is to support servo motor on both lines of electronics.