Food Printing with LuckyBot

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The LuckyBot Food extruder is a nice piece of hardware that can be mounted on an existing 3D Printer. One of the more common platforms is the Creality Ender 3. Here is their marketing video:

I was able to get a Creality Ender 3 Pro for about $100. The LuckyBot came with Cura 1.5 along with a complicated process of running a special set of GCODES prior doing your print. It has a little information on working with different "materials" but a lot of work is needed to figure out the right settings to get the best prints.

The first goal of this project is to get a good set of LuckyBot profiles running on the latest version of Cura. These are being stored on GitHub. Right now, I only have the Creality Ender 3 Pro so I'm hoping others can chip in with their own profiles for their printer.

Files

Ender3LuckyBotProfilesVer0.4.zip

Version 0.4

x-zip-compressed - 604.13 kB - 09/24/2022 at 20:47

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Beta Version

Mark Burhop • 09/24/2022 at 20:49 • 0 comments

The first beta version (0.4) is ready.

Github Checkin

Mark Burhop • 09/04/2022 at 19:35 • 0 comments

The first set of profiles have been added to Github https://github.com/burhop/cura-luckybot

This isn't ready for production, just testing of the setup.

Build Instructions

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Adding LuckyBot Profiles to Cura 5.1

If you don't already have the latest version of Cura, you can get it here:

https://ultimaker.com/software/ultimaker-cura
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Download and unzip the Cura Settings files for this project

Beta version 0.4 of the profiles can be found here : https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1871448006768896/Ender3LuckyBotProfilesVer0.4.zip

Copy each file to your Cura Installation

The Zip file contains all the files needed to create a new "Ender 3 Pro LuckyBot" printer and extruder profile. Each file goes to a different location as follows. If you are on Windows 10/11 with Cura 5.1.0 it probably looks something like this:

copy /y chocolate.xml.fdm_material                 "C:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 5.1.0\share\cura\resources\materials\chocolate.xml.fdm_material" 
copy /y creality_ender3pro_luckybot.def.json       "C:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 5.1.0\share\cura\resources\definitions\creality_ender3pro_luckybot.def.json"
copy /y creality_base_extruder_0_luckybot.def.json "C:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 5.1.0\share\cura\resources\extruders\creality_base_extruder_0_luckybot.def.json"
copy /y creality_ender3_luckybot.3mf               "C:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 5.1.0\share\cura\resources\meshes\creality_ender3_luckybot.3mf"
copy /y base_global_standard_luckybot.inst.cfg     "C:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 5.1.0\share\cura\resources\quality\creality\base\base_global_standard_luckybot.inst.cfg"
copy /y creality_ender3pro_luckybot0.84.inst.cfg    "C:\Program Files\Ultimaker Cura 5.1.0\share\cura\resources\variants\creality_ender3pro_luckybot1.0.inst.cfg"

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Discussions

Jeremy D Gerdes wrote 02/09/2023 at 03:36

Thanks for the work, the file in the 'Files' section downloads, but in the instruction the link is dead, that needs to be corrected (maybe just point to a github release?)

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Tim wrote 09/27/2022 at 02:20

Glad I decided to search before doing this myself! Awesome work. I'll probably need to do a little tweaking as you said, but my test print worked great!

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Food Printing with LuckyBot

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