Monolith Gantry Updates

The heat loss through the aluminum panels is significant. Without the sheet cooling (acting as bed fans) and the extra heat from the bed, steppers, hotend, and CPAP, the temperature can barely reach about 50°C in 30 minutes…

There are 3 options I’m considering for the CPAP mounts, all of which have their pros and cons…

Zruncho and I already have these working prototypes, and our experiences have shown us better approaches in multiple areas for the next iteration. Nothing is finalized at the moment, so we can easily redo everything from scratch before involving more people. Besides, the XY gantry’s simplicity makes future upgrades cheap and straightforward…

As mentioned before, I’m going back to prioritizing the toolhead development over everything else, which entails making some improvements to the universal belt clamp design that many of us have already been using. A derivative of this will obviously go into the updated toolhead itself…

I wanted to show you guys what’s inside the box before publicly announcing that Zruncho and his Monolith Zero prototype will be there at VICE in Portland this weekend…

In contrast to most existing CPAP mufflers and silencers, I aim to focus on mechanical noise (first), rather than flow noise…

Both the 100W and 500W chamber heater solutions, along with documentation, are now publicly available on GitHub…

I printed Cbon's excellent double fan sheet coolers almost two years ago, for the Cross Zero. They are slightly modified to fit the design language and have a different mounting solution. I had to cut the duct extension from them to clear the CPAP ducts, but the whole printer is gonna be rebuilt properly for the Beta…

We hit a milestone earlier this week, as there are two working M0s out in the wild. As soon as I received my SLM parts, I got it working in no time. There is still a long way to go until the Beta, but it's been a rewarding and fun dev cycle so far…

In the last couple of days, I've been mostly working on the electronics. The best QoL upgrade ever is going to be the 40x60mm wiring duct compared to the 20x25mm that came in my original 2.4 kit…