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Re: 1500 3D printers will be donated to teams

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Originally Posted by asid61 View Post
I wonder if it could be modified to accept "normal" filament? 3D printers are pretty simple; you could probably hack the extruder to be a certain temperature.
It's a pretty tricky hack. in the cube 1,2 and 3 (this one too most likely) they put a chip in each cartridge that keeps track of how much filament you've extruded and will disable the cartridge from being used once the filament is used up. There was a way to trick the cube 2 into not keeping track of filament use but it may or may not have been patched in the cube 3 (and this printer)
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