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jacquesm 19 hours ago

You did an amazing job. What I really like is the attention to detail that will facilitate cable management and repair. This is the weak point for most 3D printers: when you run them long enough and hard enough they'll break and you will need to replace parts. Depending on the brand of printer this can be hard, tricky or next to impossible without a complete teardown of wiring looms and such.

Consider using a slightly higher level connection to the print head: just power and a serial protocol. That way you are immediately future proof. What firmware are you running on this?

kaipereira 13 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm probably going to run Marlin just because it would be the first 3D printer I've actually made and I've heard it's more beginner friendly. I think Klipper also needs a dedicated host like a Pi which is a bit more overheard I don't want to worry about, but I'm open to exploring any type of firmware!

jacquesm 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Very cool, keep it up and I'm really curious if you manage to drive a printer with it and what kind of functionality you're going to achieve. Keep an eye on things like accelerometers and filament runout sensors in the toolhead, those are becoming more and more complex.