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  1. Printrrnoob

    Printrrnoob Member

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    Well, I purchased the R1 last night, and im excited to receive it. In the meantime, I'm curious of what upgrades everyone suggests. I'll getting the LCD but not immediately. Keep in mind that I'm assuming this will be the newest version, so many upgrades will already be made. Any ideas would be awesome.

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    LCD and dual parts fans are the only upgrades I suggest these days
     
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    Oh wow. Thank you.

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    You are likely to want to modify the stock firmware if you chose to use non-standard filaments (something other than PLA or ABS).
     
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    Modifying the firmware should be the first upgrade, The temperature limits are set too low for both the heated bed and the hotend. Then enable EEPROM, and you'll need to modify the firmware when you get your LCD as it is not enabled by default.

    While you are waiting for your R1, download the Arduino IDE from arduino.cc, you will use it to upgrade the firmware. Download either Slic3r, Cura or Repetier-Host while you are at it and go through the docs. Get a feel for each app and then decide which one you feel more comfortable with and use it. You will not want to use Mattercontrol that is supplied by Robo, I am surprised @mark tomlinson didn't suggest that as the first upgrade.
     
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    I as stoopid and assumed...
     
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    I appreciate the thorough reply. I've definitely worked with repetier host a good bit. I'll probably use matter control to get familiar eith Robo and then switch.

    As far as firmware, do you know of any very specific instructions. That's a scary one for me to mess with.

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    Also, are you sure I have to modify the firmware for the LCD? It seemed to be plug and play for barnacules.

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    Depends on the LCD
    Some are, some are not.

    Do yourself a favor and don't even install it. Go with something better.
    MC is crap. You won't so much 'learn' the Robo as you will 'learn to hate it' if you start using MC.
     
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    As an example, the RepRap Discount LCD (10 bucks from China) works with no firmware changes.
    Some of the other full graphic ones do need new firmware.
     
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    I'll probably give it a quick try.

    Concerning the LCD, I just don't see that big of a difference in the full graphic LCDs and the regular ones. I was so excided when I saw one, but they just dont seem to be that much different.

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    I thought I read somewhere that the R1 accepts an SD card. How can that work without an LCD?

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    It is mounted on the RAMPS at the same spot the LCD will connect (just not all the same pins)
     
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    The way it works is that you would use Cura/RepetierHost/MatterControl to open the SD card file and tell your printer to run it off of the card location on the printer, basically (actual method varies a little for each bit of software, but that is the gist of it).

    The theory is that you could use your computer to initiate the print on the SD card and watch the progress on your computer while the printer does it's own thing, but I figured I'd go ahead and put the LCD in place and make my printer independent of my PC for actually printing things.

    So basically once I've "proven" a program for a part, I can print it over and over again without issues.
     
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    Oh I see. Thank you. How cool would it be if you could email the file to your 3d printer and then print it from the LCD

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    You could do that ... with an OctoPi and a wee bit O'Perl
     
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    That's really cool. Are there instructions though? I'm still learning Arduino, so I'm far from Raspberry pi

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