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 tinkering around with my printer, I keep a spare GT2560 …
Tag: 3d printing
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 next part assumes that your GT2560 board has got bootloader installed, and …
Before we begin, assuming your printer is working correctly, I would recommend buying a second control board identical to the one inside your printer, so if things go south, you can always fall back to the original board. My printer came with a GT 2560 Rev A board, (without a bootloader, but more on this later), so I got a second one off amazon, including a full graphics display for around 40 bucks. Luckily the board received came with a …
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