Haha! I had a Mini T as my first one. It was a fun little car!

Check out the Tarmo project. I’ve been wanting to put one together for a while.

If you’re concerned about durability, you could potentially add in some bolts to use as a slip-in rigid spine to further reinforce the design. I’m thinking something similar to how concrete is tensioned to provide rigidity and strength.

I’m spitballing ideas to see if I can spark something workable for you.

What retraction settings do you have? I’m wondering if maybe that’s contributing to your jamming.

No need to get a purpose built dryer actually. Your heated bed will actually do exactly what you need. Flip a plastic container upside down over the bed with your filament underneath, set the bed to ~50-60C for PLA, and let it go for a couple hours.

Hm. That’s all pretty good advice in general, thank you! Though I’m definitely not afraid to break stuff. I think that’s generally how I learn.

The current motherboard in my printer is almost 100% functional except for one specific module that I completely fried (and as a result, my parts fans run at 100% all the time). I may have shorted a couple wires as I was working on some extensions. Whoops! Though as a result of that, I have a much better handle on how wiring works on these things and it’s a lot simpler than I thought originally. The sparks were fun though!

Honestly I sorta wonder if I should document my build process and post it to Lemmy. It might be cool to have a “Here’s how to convert” guide.

Uh… Whoops, sorry, forgot which timeline I landed in. It gets a little tricky when you start hopping between 'em, y’know?