9/21/2026 - 12th Update!

You couldn’t build a printer in a week. You can’t build a printer in a week.

Yeah, I know.

You’ve got eight or so days left. And you spent the last three grinding Geometry Dash.

Yeah, 158% on nine paws, woo!

And you’re not at all concerned about the time?

The what?

welcome back! it’s 12:08 AM on the morning of 9/22/2026, and boy did i realize the entire weekend and the extra day off disappeared in a blink of an eye. yes, i finally beat the level, now moving on to something way more difficult, but first, it’s time to address the bigger issue in the room. yes, technically fermion, but also time. pause the music, it’s getting a bit serious here.

we have a solid 8 or so days left. we didnt spend the weekend well, i didn’t spend the weekend well. but hey, we can’t get that time back. what a mindset, instead, i gotta start actually spending my time efficiently. yes, i beat the level, but now, i need to take a break. not because of exhaustion, but because we literally don’t have enough time to play gd at the same time. its just not able to fit there.

It’s not meant to be easy, you know.

who is that guy in italics? idk, they’re kinda weird. anyways, question is, what now?

8 days. lock in.

if we cant get this done by the end of stardance, id probably look into exporting this to a similar ysws, hopefully to finish it there in time for the winter season, because that’s a pretty fun time to build stuff before build season starts, and when college applications are mostly over! that said, back to the cad…

ok, we need to sort out the motor support first, one second. ok, that should be good,

ok, ive got a plan. but it requires the tool head to be both unbalanced, weirdly shaped, and quite low. of course, that’s if we’re still going with the small tool idea, we can always just slap three extra motors and call it a day, but thats too easy and probably more sane. theres no avoiding it, gotta get designing that now

mfw 8.8cm for the available tool space (horiziontally)

at that point might as well just have two tool heads that swap out with the motor and all at the front

im thinking of a ton of possible configurations, lets write them out

• idea 1
  • z motors are in the front, belted to the lead screws
  • corexy motors move to the side
  • still doesnt solve the issue that the tool head areas
  • front does look cooler
  • no neat place to put the tool head
• idea 2
  • similar to the first idea in the the z motors and lead screws are belted together, but the z motor is above, facing backwards, belted to the lead screw, so that it can be at an angle (getting this to the other side would be wonky, but perhaps doable)
  • this should move the lead screws closer to the sides, giving more space! (also look into different things that move on the t screw that are smaller, perhaps smaller than T8 lead screws?)

huh. i seem to have forgotten to add yesterdays log to the website. oops. well, that just got added, some weird time stuff but yeah.

well yeah, it’s 1:17 AM, and i think i like the second idea. checking the cad, it’s probably possible to fit this (its gonna be close?), so thats cool! anyways, yeah, good night!