Slowly updating models to be compatible with the 5.1 front frame rail and the available holes on the legs. Also iterating on the Jog Pendant Hanger. A few revising to make things fit multiple places. Added a VESA 100mm pattern to the Rii Mini Kepad holder so I can place it behind my monitor. Since I got the Jog Pendant I don’t use it quite as much.
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Let us know when you post the files to your Etsy. I will definitely be purchasing the hanger and the emergency stop Mount
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Josh, thank you for the photos of your early prototype jog pendant. It is interesting to see how the case progressed from there to the production version. (And I would really like to upgrade to @WillAdams graphics-embedded, fuzzy case front…)
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I will note, the changes you see on my prototype pendant vs the production version, are mine.
I broke the case and Winston was kind enough to send me the file to reprint. I don’t know if it 100% matches the final version. I added the colors because my beta didn’t have the buttons with printed markings. We have a production version for our Shapeokos at work (S4Pro and HDM V1) and I like the silk screened buttons better. I also added the logo just because. 
I understand why they don’t do multi-color printing because the failure rate is higher and colors can string and cause cosmetic blemishes. So don’t take the visual differences to be C3D’s. 
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Never had an issue printing multi colors (PLA/PETG) on my X1C. Sounds like a moisture issue to me, try a filament drier if you still have issues.
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It’s a numbers game with small features on the bed. Printing hundreds of the same part, especially in PETG, which is the proper material for this job, then you’re going to have more tiny features detatch and have more strings get embedded in that first layer. I even have a specific PETG starting GCODE that slightly squishes it into the bed to really help labeling stick and fill without gaps.
I’ve been 3D printing for 13 years and have a Bambu X1C myself, as well as 2 at work making scientific experiment parts. I dry all filaments before printing, especially PETG and TPU. Single color on the first layer is just more esthetically reliable.
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I like the jog pendent you have in your pic. I am used to using a jog pendent like this one, but a bit fancier of course on the big CNC mills that I ran in the machine shop. It was nice to be able to lean in closer to the part and tool as I was touching off and be able to incrementally move the tool one click at a time closer to my tool setting. I knew that when the increments were set to .001" movement per click, I could focus on the part and tool for touch off and feel the clicks knowing I was moving .001" at a time. Made for really fast touch offs and not worrying about crashing the tool into the part, or reaching so far away from the part.
The incremental wheel is also one of my favorite parts of the pendants I used. Of course, the pendant on the big CNC mill cost $1,000 to replace if it got broken. And of course one of the other guys dropped the pendant and broke it inside on the dial. I had to take it apart and see what was actually broken and see if we could find a replacement part for it. Of course they didnt offer replacement parts, just a whole new pendant at cost. So, I had to fabricate the part myself by melting hdpe plastic into a form on the end of the broken part, and then come back and sand it down to shape. Was a couple hours work to save the company $1000. It was worth it in my book.
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No need to admire from afar!
I’ve been kind of obsessed by mine (wasn’t even willing to wait for production to catch up and be sent one as an employee and paid full price for one from the first batch) — don’t tell Rob, but I’d’ve probably been willing to pay even more…
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I finally got my xBox controller to work and that was nice, but the feel of it is still a bit off for me. I hope the size of the pendent can fit in one hand comfortably from a size hold so it can be operated with one hand on a one or two finger hold.
Always nice to have something to better handle portable controls of a bigger machine like this then sitting there trying to look from afar with the mouse and clicking on the button on the screen to make movements. Then of course if the slightest movement happens and now off the button. That is why I worked on getting the xBox control working, which was a major pain in my arse because I had to find a good app program to interface with CM.
Now that’s it’s been almost a month, have you abandoned the Rii altogether? Or do you still find that you use it on occasion?
I still use it, just not for jogging. My mini pc has no keyboard, so the Rii gets used in that capacity.
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Did you use Antimicro to configure the Xbox controller, or another program?
I am using AntiMicroX to configure the xbox controller. I have to open the app and run CM together in order for the controller to be recognized in CM, but once it is working, I do like the portability of using the controller instead of the mouse and looking across the screen from far away.