After a lot of hair pulling, thankfully I’m bald, the filament sensor and the pinda 2 temp sensor are working on stock marlin and the SKR V1.4.
I’ll put up a how to video ASAP. I’ve already shared a PDF wiring guide and basic firmware video but will double down here soon.
2020-02-08 02:49:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Gotcha covered! 0.4mm and 0.6mm nozzle profiles with all the fancy stuff to work with how stock marlin does it’s start gcode goodness.
2020-02-06 21:49:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to Keith Bennet for helping me along the way and of course Chris Riley for introducing the world to better Marlin 2.0 videos. Watch his to get the basics down but I think I went over everything slowly enough.
Hope this helps humans setup their printer!!!
2020-02-06 19:14:08 +0000 UTC View Post
After a ton of testing with my first SKR V1.4 build it’s time to do it again.
The first build is awesome and thankfully is working like a workhorse without any bugs. Motor and stepper driver heat is well within range. PSU temps all within range. Features all work but I haven’t programm...
2020-02-04 04:00:24 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s clean. Very very very clean. Cleaner than when I had duet installed.
Some notes. This was my Duet Bear so 0.9 degree XY, geared bear extruder with LDO geared motor, plus some nice parts. Still has stock PSU, e3dv6, and bear parts.
Now that I have this working I’m going to r...
2020-01-31 02:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I spent forever crimping on all the connectors, making sure to follow all the pretty diagrams. I thought I was going calm it a night but then I decided I’d test a firmware. Spent some time making it happen and now it should work.
What’s been enabled:
Looking for a few brave souls with a MK3/s Prusa Bear upgrade who want to test alongside me the SKR V1.4 upgrade.
Specifically need this setup so we aren’t jumping around too much. You can have whatever extruder you want I’ll have the bunny bear gearbox attached to a stock Bear extrude...
2020-01-29 19:00:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Bed PID tuning sounds weird right? Most of us have done a nozzle PID tune since it’s in the menu or we’ve done it manually but it’s something we may have heard is important. But what about the bed??
After a long time of testing I can tell when a print has a bad PID tune. Normally the...
2020-01-28 04:14:10 +0000 UTC View Post
SKR V1.4 and incoming TMC2209 for upgrading a Bear and a Sidewinder. Now to wait for the goods and see if all the good info Keith taught me has stuck so I can get these printers up and running. Stay tuned!
2020-01-27 18:42:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve beaten this planetary motor as much as I can. It had some great things going for it.
It does have one downfall.
Now that I’m content with PLA it’s time to dial in some 0.6mm nozzle PETG goodness at 0.3mm layer height. First print is okay. Stringing is sadness and my overhangs are baaad but I’ll have this dialed in soon enough.
Btw... part strength is incredible with fat layers. I mean incredib...
2020-01-24 23:25:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Tuned for LA1.5 but I have one for regular ole Linear Advance 1.0.
It prints great, it prints fast, it’s actually pretty awesome. Layer heights from 0.2mm to 0.4mm are safe but you may need to increase base temps so it doesn’t chug.
Have fun and don’t forget to share some imag...
2020-01-24 18:48:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of you may have seen images of this printer in the background of my other printers. I’ve also called it my secret printer. It has a name and it’s called Abrams because it’s a tank.
Designed and made by Barry Danks aka RC-CNC as a prusa on wheels on my request. It runs the MK52 m...
2020-01-22 02:57:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Still many kinks to work out but it’s printing. The checklist is as follows for our todo:
I did a little more tuning and it works. I’ll share a profile here soon as well roger new profiles. I’m still knee deep in BTT002 bird testing. The one Keith got died so it’s back to sending Keith bugs via messenger and figuring them out the hard way.
I’m going to bed and hopefully...
2020-01-21 04:42:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The beta test team is growing. Olof is running the BTT002 along with me while Keith works on making the board and firmware run JUST like your stock MK3S but with cools features added.
We have made headway but debugging is becoming a slow and difficult process. As marlin updates things and ...
2020-01-20 01:27:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Such a struggle with this printer. It prints beautifully and is feature rich but it’s been an adventure to keep running.
For the longest time I thought I had a firmware issue. Nope. Keith made me a firmware and it didn’t work. Tried motors tried testing voltages and so on. Nothing. 2020-01-19 21:17:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Well the box says Hermès but we all know what really in there.
My Sidewinder has been in and out of commission mostly cause I dislike the stock extruder. Well goodbye stock extruder hello fancy new extruder.
I’ll bust out some profiles soon enough but until then I did quick therm...
2020-01-18 01:28:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I tried the exact ABS profile I recently made BUT I noticed that ASA is a little pickier. While the part is very strong I can break the parts along the layer lines which means I’m not getting enough layer adhesion.
Overhangs and bridging has been great and the surface finish is very simi...
2020-01-15 23:40:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Done with regular tests now to check if it handles regular prints with difficult areas like bridging, supports, and overhangs.
2020-01-14 21:38:35 +0000 UTC View Post
What have I been printing? What did I print with? Who designed it? I got you!
Share away and hopefully we get a ton of viewers!!!
2020-01-13 23:21:21 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s not perfect but it’s not bad. Thanks to Keith the first working firmware is stable enough to print with. The motion is smoother and the printer runs a notch quieter.
What issues? Even though I’m getting a thousand times less vertical banding due to the better drivers there is st...
2020-01-13 16:35:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Slowly but surely the fancy unreleased BTT002 board will work as a direct swap in replacement for the stock Einsy board.
It’s just past 1:45am here and I’m exhausted but thanks to Keith we’ve got the foundation to a working firmware for this board. So what is it?
A 32bit direct...
2020-01-12 08:03:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I've made some headway and they work! This is a first run so I need others to test and provide feedback. Appreciate the help in tuning these profiles!
Basically 0.6mm nozzle profile is 0.65mm wide layers with 0.3mm layer height and same speeds as pretty PLA. The V6 kept up the entire time s...
2020-01-11 15:30:31 +0000 UTC View Post
It took forever but V0.4 of Purple Bear is ready for tests. I’m trying out the stock Bear extruder with the LDO planetary geared extruder motor first. I’ve been itching to test it so I’m going to run a whole bunch of prints with it. The only issue is I’m completely out of clean stock nozz...
2020-01-11 03:59:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Mmmmm. So I have a nice enclosure but I wanted to see if the IKEA lack was worth it since it’s technically cheaper. It’s more work for sure but it looks nice.
I printed all the stock parts for the Prusa Lack enclosure in Atomic Dark Cherry Red PETG and snagged the Printed Solid Acrylic...
2020-01-10 19:24:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I have a custom printer built for me by RC CNC aka Barry Danks and I’ll have a stream on it once I upgrade the board and firmware but I wanted to chat about retractions.
Using some of the same settings in a stock marlin machine using different drivers and extruder I can produce such clea...
2020-01-10 04:11:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I do not have any Ideamaker skills BUT I will one day. So far nothing has crashed on my test printer and the bed leveling is happening. Wish me luck!
2020-01-10 00:18:25 +0000 UTC View Post
For those of you rocking the Mosquito Magnum and want to push a bunch of plastic??? I got you. Setup for LA1.5 if you have the Bondtech extruder but if you use LA1.0 change the K value to 30 in Filament Settings > Custom Gcode.
***Slice 50W heater cartridge is a must for the larger nozzl...
2020-01-08 02:45:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Made specifically for a stock or slightly modified Prusa MK3/s.
Someone had mentioned they couldn't find the CF PETG profile. I added a couple things and it should be a touch better. Enjoy but make sure you have a hardened nozzle of some sort before you go printing.
If you are u...
2020-01-06 19:55:25 +0000 UTC View Post