**updated Dec/1/19 – Forum, New instruction site. OctoPrint, CNC.js, Raspberry Pi, CNC control from your phone… any of those pique your interest? It has never been this easy to try them out. Jeffeb3 (El Heffe) has taken it to the next level of ease, v1pi....
If you bought a bundle or electronics boardĀ from this site, this is already done. Firmware Firmware is the program or software “embedded/burned” into the electronics board, this is what translates the gcode into motion in the stepper motors. ...
So if you have read this already no changes but having to link to it several times a day I need to bump this back up.If you don’t want to read everything below. Due to some awesome software updates our machines should now run so much more reliably and...
Mark walks through every step on how he does a tool change and some of the other methods out there. I really appreciate his perspective. No electrical endstops or z probes needed. There are so many ways to change a tool, this is his method and reasoning behind it. My...
Choosing an Image Grey scale images do not translate well on to mirrors because either the surface is reflective or it is not. So straight 2 color images with no gradients are best. Just plain old black and white. The higher the resolution the sharper the edges....
Mr. Christian Knuell has outdone himself and has began the porting of his firmware over to the Ramps stack that is most commonly used with the Mostly Printed CNC. This means you can now use his software instead of repetier-host if you so desire! Lend a hand, give it a...
This is an intermediate walk through on 2.5D routing with ESTLCAM. You should have a firm grasp on the basics before trying this. This is how to manually set up a 2.5D cut, the alternative would be to import an STL file and let ESTLCAM choose the paths. The...
http://www.estlcam.com/ EstlCAM is for generating GCode. This software seems to do everything I want. It also seems to be translated into every language I’ve ever heard of, if not you can add translations in the software. The installer is in German I think but...
Assembly of my all metal version of the Mk8 import extruder Click on the images for more detail. I ship these partially assembled. These are not assembled by me so a few extra minutes starting from scratch can save a lot of headaches in the end. Start by screwing the...
