is yours wired or wireless? maybe i was hitting the bw limit of the usb bus. mine was networked via wireless usb nic at the time.

Good idea Toby. I actually printed one out the other day and then discovered it was for the old style hot end. whoops!

you could always space the connectors at different lengths along the wire so they aren't all bunched up at one spot, but that's a tad bit more work.

Do you guys notice high cpu usage on the raspberry when viewing the webcam tab? My girlfriend had left her browser on that page as I was printing something last night, and the pi wasn't able to keep up with sending all the commands to the printer when it would hit all the curves on the outlines of t...

yeah the heat is to get it to stick to glass. not having to heat up the bed saves time and electricity though. i placed an order and will let you all know how it turns out.

Has anyone used Buildtak? It's a thin sheet of material you can put on the bed which supposedly has much better adherence. They were at Makerfair today and had an M2 printing PLA without any heat on the bed at all. It is heat resistant though and can withstand typical bed temperatures. I think I'm g...

yeah it seems like a bit too much effort when there are easier methods like the Rasberry Pi

there are devices you can buy to transport serial communications over IP. something like this should work. http://www.startech.com/Networking-IO/Serial-over-IP/1-Port-RS-232-422-485-Serial-over-IP-Ethernet-Device-Server~NETRS2321E then i got to thinking, why not usb over IP? sure enough... http://ww...

looks like it has a v3b hotend which would make it fairly new.

if your laptops are both connected via wireless, any file transfers are going to be slow between them unless all the wireless gear was purchased in the last few years (dual band, 802.11n or 802.11ac). with older hardware, only one wireless connection can be "talking" at a time, and with two laptops ...