Working on wrapping up the adoptabot for the local Robotics club at a school my friend teaches at. It was a gracious frame donation by @Brook_Drumm and the amazing group at Printrbot. It looks to have been a prototype simple pro. But this one is rocking a printrboard F5 instead of a G2.
I will admit compiling a modified Marlin for the F5 to regain Tx/Rx serial for the LCD/WiFi control I added had me scratching my head for a day. I don’t miss Marlin after years of smoothie text editing
Then this morning I was running into jams and I was getting frustrated and blaming the equipment (some of which is new to me like the metal extruder and Ubis hotend). But then I went and got lunch, came back with a clear head, and did a nylon cold pull (see image below).
As they say… Garbage in, Garbage out.
Time to get back to tuning profiles for the robotics club to use.
Thanks to Brook and his gang for the frame. With a little TLC it made a great bot. The club is excited to get running modeling and printing. I get to see if the old adage about “those that can’t do teach” holds true. Since I can only passably “do”, does that mean I can passably teach
@Sonex128 MKS TFT28 (LCD touch screen and they have an esp8266 module that can plug into it). Just connect via TX/RX/5v or 12V/Gnd. The LCD has its own OS and can stream control commands and gcode to the printer. I like it because the graphics and configuration is customizable, including custom buttons (gcodes macros). I did a full skin mod of it for a printer design for SMW3D.
@Brook_Drumm yeah, spool location and path is one of my last things to tackle. But the blue tape is working while I come up with something. I would do a rod on the side of the handle like the regular simple pro, but my wiring on the outside of the y-arm makes that a little trickier: missing/deleted image from Google+
I also had to custom compile the latest Printrboard firmware to get hardware uart working to communicate with the LCD. To do the same, just make the same changes as j-laird did in his version of Marlin to the latest version of Marlin from the printrbot github.
I’ve ordered a screen to try it… Jeff might like this and community may enjoy it to. I’m open to all options but to ship a product, it’s gotta be tested pretty thoroughly
No Hesitations other than other peoples general community dislike with Makerbase as a company. When it comes to boards I go Pannucatt or Cohesion3D to support the community. But until we get an opensource touchscreen with wifi and SD/USB hosting… the MKS TFT will be my go to screen.
If you run into any questions or want help editing the screens or graphics… let me know.
Currently I am not planning on it. Heavy heavy design workload on me until the end of November. Kinda sad about it but super burned out on travel lately
My booth costs skyrocketed 3 years ago… smallest booth + travel w team costs about $12K… non-trivial!
Last year I went and attended… cheaper but the time lost is the critical thing. I need recovery time after so I lose a work week.
We are on a healthy track, a smarter & leaner company than a year ago, but its because of tough decisions like this
@enhydra I found just 5V was not enough power, especially with the ESP module installed. So I moved the jumper and powered via 12V instead. That seemed to be much more stable.
I would like to connect the LCD to the Printrboard.