xyz ReChippy

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Working up the nerve to use flashed chips and 3rd party ABS in my Uno, I decided to relocate the chip and make an easy to use system. So, here is a chip plug, a chip holder, and a base unit. Pull the chip from your cartridge and replace with a correctly wired chip plug, and run the wires through the carts filament feed hole at the top of the cart. Wire a base unit spring clip to the other end of the chip plug wires. After testing for continuity, Assemble to base unit by gluing the spring clip into the base. Make another base unit, but wire the spring clip to attach to a resetter or Arduino. Glue the chip itself into the chip holder. viola! update: At idle, the printer doesn't seem to mind hot-swapping the chippy one bit. The plan being to have a few pre-reset keys on hand, maybe with specific temps. Print out spare base/clips and attach to your spool to hold the key. You could easily build an extension cord to pull up from the art to whatever external spool holder - key on one side, clip on the other, attach clip to spool holder. This would definitely be better with some of those fancy push contacts. Maybe I'll pick some up on my next Amazon binge.