The success is that I actually got the thing to turn on, heat up and detect the filament and then go through a 10 minute calibration cycle. What you see at right is the stuff that squited out of the nozzle after it finished dancing around in 3D space. Obviously however, this isn't anything useful. I'm just happy I got it to do anything at all.
Now the failures.
So far, despite the fact I have it networked up on the wifi wth my computer, the computer doesn't see it. It's not in the list of available devices. I will attempt to contact support, howwever it's the holiday weekend so I'm not too hopeful there.
I ordered a USB male-male cord to try and hardwire it, which I prefer anyhow. Probably will not make further progress until that arrives. I've never had a new device for my computer that didn't have glitches and give me headaches in the setup phase. I'll work it out eventually. I know it works to do the core function of squirting the plastic onto the build bed. Just a matter off getting it to go in the right direction.
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