Having bought a number of parts for my home made Geeetech GT2560 controlled 3D Printer, about a week ago, while browsing the web, an advert of an item some A.I. thought "I would like" came up on my feed. I looked at the specs, and 10 minutes later it was in my shopping basket. The item, a BIGTREETECH TFT35-E3 V3, arrived a couple of days later. Since I am always … [Read more...] about “BIGTREETECH TFT35 E3 V3.0” Touch Screen with a GT2560 Board
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Setting up Marlin 1.1.8 on a Prusa i3 Clone, and upgrading the Z-Axis Lead screw (Part 2)
In part one of this blog post, we dealt with download of the marlin firmware, along with the configuration of the Arduino IDE to be able to compile it. In this second part we will deal with configuration of the marlin firmware for our printer, along with another of necessary configuration changes to the IDE which will enable us to upload the firmware to our GT2560 board. The … [Read more...] about Setting up Marlin 1.1.8 on a Prusa i3 Clone, and upgrading the Z-Axis Lead screw (Part 2)
Setting up Marlin 1.1.8 on a Prusa i3 Clone, and upgrading the Z-Axis Lead screw (Part 1)
I have recently purchased a very cheap 3D printer off ebay. A couple of days later, the box was delivered to my door, so I took a day off, to assemble it, and try it out. Assembly took around 4 hours, and after a couple of days of tinkering I was managing to print a decent, but far from perfect 20mm calibration cube, it was evident that although for the investment the printer … [Read more...] about Setting up Marlin 1.1.8 on a Prusa i3 Clone, and upgrading the Z-Axis Lead screw (Part 1)