Currently we are out of home the most part of the time, and I became to investigate how to control the printer remotely, and the best option for me is Octoprint.
The first thing is to have an internet connection at home š
Another thing that you need id aRaspberry Pi, because we will install Octoprint on it, another good thing is to buy a camera to receive visual information from the printer. Continue reading
First of all I am crazy about E3D v6 hotend. For this reason, after watching the stock hotend mounted on the Anet E-10, I decided to design my first piece for 3D Printing.
To design this object I usedĀ Tinkercad, that is a tool developed by Autodesk , is very easy to use and is cloud base, so you do not need to install any software on you computer.
The main idea of this software is to merge simple objects to create more complex things.
As I wrote you on a previousĀ post, today I am going to show how I made Marlin setup for my Anet E-10 modified printer.
First of all, you need Arduino IDE, I use currently version 1.8.5 and you can download itĀ here.
Another important thing you need is Marlin, and you can download itĀ here. Setup explained below this lines is related to 1.1.6 version.
In my case, because I use a big LCD screen I also need U8GLib to setup the screen, and you can find it here. Continue reading
After checking that stock electronics on Anet is not good enough for me, I have used a GT2560 motherbard to substitute the stock mainboard.
As you can see on the image below, Anet board only comes with one potenciometer to control stepper drivers.
This causes, for example, that you cannot set the intensity for the extruder motor, and this is the main cause of loosing steps. Continue reading
Finally Anet E10 has arrived!
The delivery date was the last planned day, 15 labour days from the purchase.
The printer assembly is quite easy to do. It comes almost pre assembled but I had some problems because it was my first cartesian printer.
As you can see on all the reviews, the connectors come looking inside the printer. To fix that, simply elevate the horizontal part of the frame and then unscrew a couple of screws, and then twist the motors in order to set the connectors outside.
This part of the assembly took me some time, because is hard to understand some things of the cartesian printer when you are used to use a delta one. To make this step properly, simply move up Z axis enough to release the pression on the bottom part of the frame, in order to align the screws with the holes. Continue reading
