Hi everyone, I am new to 3D printers and 3D printing in general.

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Hi everyone, I am new to 3D printers and 3D printing in general. I am, however, not new to building stuff and programming, automating. So I decided to build my own printer. I saw a tutorial on Prusa I3 Mk2 Clone by @Thomas_Sanladerer , and I started building it. Tutorial is very detailed but I still have some questions:

  1. Can I put toothed idler for Y axis instead of smooth one(smooth one was used in building stream)?
    2 @Thomas_Sanladerer mentioned (a few times during the stream :)) that Ramps 1.4 board is not quite good. I found BIQU BIGTREETECH KFB2.0 on aliexpress, can I use it instead? Problem is that I am from Serbia and sellers tend to not ship here, any advice on the matter is welcome.
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  1. Yes, toothed ones will actually help with longevity of the belt and result in slightly smoother operation.

  2. I’d suggest staying away from any of the 8-bit boards that use Marlin, etc. The cohesion3d board is good, the smoothieboard is good, etc.

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Thank you for the reply , i’ll go with the smoothieboard then.