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P3Steel Build

Over a period of time from July 2018 to February 2019, I put together a 3d printer.  It is a P3Steel design that mostly comes from Thingiverse thing 157303 by irobri.  This design was based on the work by twelvepros.  If you are interested in the designers, then you can look them up at Thingiverse.  I made a few tweaks to the design using DraftSight, which is a 2D CAD Drafting and 3D Design Software program by Dassault Systems.  I incorporated the lcd holder from another variant into my build.  This is basically a version 2.0 of the P3Steel.

The frame is made of 3mm steel and was laser cut by a local company.  The other parts that I used for the build came from various places.  These places include Prusa Research, Banggood, E3D, and GeckoTek.  The bolts that hold the frame together came from Albany County Fasteners’ online store.  There were also a few printed parts (like the feet and carry handle) that came from other Thingiverse designers.  The orange printed parts came from Prusa Research.

I put it together for a friend who will need to fine tune it.  I got everything working mechanically, but they will have to do all of the final adjustments for printing.  I helped jumpstart his 3d printing effort.

Here are photos that I took over that time period.

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It’s Alive!

Yes, it has been quite a while since my last post.  This blog started out on my friend’s server, but he shutdown the server last summer and gave me a backup of my blog.  Just today I created a subdomain for my WordPress blog.   My friend used the plugin All-in-One WP Migration to backup my blog.  I installed the same plugin and restored the backup file onto my subdomain.  There were a few minor issues about the restore, but only one in particular is worth mentioning.  The restore overwrote the WP database and I forgot what the passwords were for the admin and editor accounts in the backup.  I had to go into phpMyAdmin on cPanel to browse the WP database.  From there I looked at the user table.  The passwords for the accounts are in an MD5 hash.  So I can’t just type in a new password.  I need to generate an MD5 hash of the new password that I want to use.  This website has an MD5 hash generator which I was able to use.

http://www.passwordtool.hu/md5-password-hash-generator

Once I generated an MD5 hash, I used it to update the password field (user_pass) for the admin account and my editor account in the users table.  That update allowed me to logon to my WP admin account and create this post.