Voron Trident 300 Build: Part 1
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My LDO box arrived this week and I'm excited to get started on my first 3D printer build.
I've previously used and modded this cheapo Ender 3 V3 SE. I ripped out the original firmware and installed Klipper, and it's currently controlled from an old Librebooted Thinkpad X200 running NixOS (of course). I'm hoping to either control the Voron from this laptop too, or go and do the usual thing and get a Raspberry Pi. It'll obviously need to run NixOS too. I'm not down with that wheel-reinventing KIAUH stuff.
As is my curse, I'm choosing the hard path to begin: printing my own parts in glorious stinky ABS. One advantage of this is that I can choose my own mods as I build. The obvious disadvantage is that I'm about to get unpopular at home, and possibly very upset with my feeble Ender.
If that fails, I'll probably order the parts from the Print It Forward programme to utilise someone's well-tuned and fast printer (farm).
Unboxing
This is how the main box looks when opened. I need to get the frame together and squared, then look at printing one of those special special idler mods all the YouTubers are fussing over.
