u/Severe-Health-2328

Hi guys

I bought a BNIB anycubic vyper off a local seller on eBay, who had bought it for a project at the start of the year, but never even unboxed it.

I brought it home yesterday and assembled it this morning, but I think it's faulty - just wanted to run things by this sub and see if there's anything I've obviously missed or am doing wrong

Assembly went great, followed all the instructions up until inserting the SD card and printing the test file. Screen works, self levelling works, bed and print head heat up fine. But the unit won't read the SD card, or apparently connect to a computer.

I've tried:

Power cycling (many times)

Cleaning the SD slot with air duster

3 different FAT32 formatted SD cards with the files copied to them (2 full size SD cards, and a micro SD with adapter, all 16GB or under). The factory SD reads fine in my PC.

I've tried connecting via USB to my Windows 11 laptop and to my wife's MacBook, downloading drivers for both. Neither computer recognises the printer when plugged in, and it is not visible in Ultimaker Cura on the windows PC

So - it's cooked, right? There's nothing simple or obvious I haven't done? Is there an easily accessible internal connector for the USB port/SD slot that might have come loose that I could reconnect?

The vendor's been really good and is happy to accept a return, but I can't raise a return case with eBay til tomorrow for some reason, so if there's anything else I might reasonably try before attempting to pack it all away again then I'm all ears

Thanks

Does anyone know if it's still possible to download the audio pods from the patreon for offline listening? I (tried to) do my due diligence in this very subreddit searching for answers to this, and found a number of posts saying that it was indeed possible.

I subscribed this morning, but after a head-scratching hour or so I've been unable to find a way to do it despite trying two or three RSS readers - and a bit of light googling suggests patreon might have disabled this ability a few years ago? If anyone knows a way I'd be chuffed to hear about it

Edit: I should have said I'm trying to do this on laptop. Still struggling but I'll have another crack later

I'm on month 4 of 6 trying to not use a smartphone.- still own it and have to plug the SIM in for the odd day here and there for trips out but it's done wonders for my concentration levels (and getting shit done round the house levels). If I can only get it to work on mobile then I'll take it with me