Hello everyone, recently I found a “feature” (or flaw) in Android which made my life miserable for the past week. Let me preface what happened first so you understand what I am talking about. For a while I have been wanting to get a new Android phone. For the past 2 years, my main device […]
Fixing The Sleep/Wake Up Issue On Antergos Mate Edition & Theming SDDM
Fixing Sleep/Wake Up Hello everyone, As you might know from my previous post, I was able to purchase a new Lenovo Thinkpad T430. I decided that Windows 8 was too dirty and evil to leave it in installed in this gorgeous computer, so I decided to install Arch Linux on it. I went with Antergos […]
How To Fix The Invisible Fonts Issue In Antergos With The Mate Desktop.
Hello Everyone! So, not long ago I installed Antergos in my new Lenovo Thinkpad T430. I wanted to install Arch Linux on it but didn’t really want to bother with configuring every single bit of it. However, when the machine finished installing, all my applications looked as if there were no letters in places where […]
RBG LED Driver Board for Your 3D Printer!
Hello readers, today I want to show you guys how to add RBG LEDs to your Marlin Firmware powered 3D Printer. This should work with most boards which are compatible with the Marlin firmware and have free PWM pins (it could work in other ones with a little bit of tinkering as well). Not long […]
3D Printed PCB Electrical Circuit Vice
Good day readers, in today’s post I would like to show you my new custom made mostly 3D Printed PCB vice. I made this vice because I have always wanted to have a PCB vice in order to de-solder and solder components into circuit boards easily. Now that I am getting more into electronics, I […]
Upgrading Folgertech Prusa i3: New Leadscrews
Good day readers, in today’s article I will be showing you how I upgraded my old Folgertech Prusa i3 Acrylic to use T8 Leadscrews instead of the stock 5mm threaded rod included in the kit. So. you might be asking yourself, “Why should I upgrade to leadscrews?”, here are some reasons why you should make […]
First Layer Of Your Prints Always Too High? You Might Want To Read This.
Hello Everyone. For a while, I have been facing some issues with my first layer height being always too far away from the bed. Even after leveling properly leveling bed it will always about 3mm away from the bed, which did not allow my prints to stick at all to the bed. Today I have […]
The New Site!
Good day readers, as you can see this is the brand new “The Tinkering Corner” website. The reason why we have created a new site is because we are moving away from using free website hosting Weebly to a self hosted WordPress instance. This WordPress instance provides better performance, flexibility and control in comparison to the old […]
Best Image for the Orange Pi PC
Hello everyone, sorry that I have not written anything in the past months. I have been mostly focusing on my Youtube channel and school, which took most of my time, and did not allow me to write more often. Today I want to write about something other than 3D printers. I have been doing some […]
Heimdall 3D Printer Files Now On Github
Hello readers, I just wanted to let all of you know that the files for the Heimdall 3D Printer are on Github. You can go through them, make changes, or even contribute to the project. You can also now build yourself one, and modify the printer the way you like and then contribute the changes […]