How to fix Tenlog TL-D3 Pro Squashed Prints
This isn't one of my rambling blog articles; it's about one specific problem that took me four months to realise was even an issue. Eventually, after printing yet another two-piece item that didn't fit together, the penny dropped that all the prints from my Tenlog TL-D3 Pro were being squashed.
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The next hardware issue I had was after a filament run out. It was a print I had only started because I knew how empty the spool was and I just wanted to test the best print orientation on a model that was quite intricate. After the filament run out sensor halted the print I just abandoned it.
It wasn't until the next time I tried to print that I found out the first layer wouldn't start. The printer kept freezing while doing the Cura primer line and just sat there with "Processing" on the screen.
Convert a Date to Unix Format in a Flow
I had to learn about Rest APIs at work. Quickly. Oh and Azure as well, never having properly used either before.
Without going into unnecessary detail, I needed to extract data through a Rest API in order to build up an SQL table and to be efficient my requests were going to need to use a unix style date.