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Voxelab Aquila V1
Donated to the Lab by Pidge
Costs
See costs
Materials
Machine can handle PLA and PETG, however the temp limit for it is 230 degrees at the hotend. Anything higher will trigger a failsafe shutdown.
The bed's temperature limit is 70 degrees.
I never had the chance to test TPU with it, but it does run a Direct Drive extruder, so it should work as long as the material can be printed under the above constraints.
Calibration
The machine does Autolevel before every print using a BLTouch probe.
Filament Sensor
This printer is equipped with an Orbiter V2 Filament Sensor, which communicates with the printer via a Seeedstudio XIAO RP2040 flashed with another instance of Klipper.
The filament sensor has 2 switches that can be used to trigger different macros:
Pressing the button at the top of the sensor will trigger the Filament Unload Macro.
Pushing filament into the filament sensor will trigger the Filament Load Macro
Web Interface
You may access the web interface via http://aquila.hacklab
If something has crashed, use Firmware Restart → Restart Klipper inside the system sidebar. If this does not work try a power cycle.
Slicers
You may use whichever slicer you prefer. The machine acts as an Ender3 V2 clone, so any E3V2 profile should work for it.
Might need to tweak temperature and retractions values depending on the filament used.