Upgrade bed leveling and safety for the Anet A8 by installing Marlin Firmware. It really should be the first upgrade you do. In the video I talk about more reasons why and how to do the install.
Download Links:
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
https://github.com/SkyNet3D/anet-board
http://marlinfw.org/meta/download/
Additional Notes:
- If you're not seeing your printer apply the bed leveling compensation, do the following:
- Level the bed through the menu
- Save the bed leveling through the menu
- Add "M420 S1" to your start gcode AFTER "G28"
- More info here: http://marlinfw.org/docs/features/auto_bed_leveling.html
- If you're getting an error like: avrdude: ser_open(): can't open device "\\.\COM1" when trying to install the firmware, make sure you are not connected to your printer in another way. Like through a slicer, etc. (thanks Joe Robidoux for this tip)
- If you find that the thermal runaway protections are too precautious you can change them with the settings shown here: http://marlinfw.org/docs/configuration/configuration.html#thermal-protection-settings
- A few people in the comments mentioned that you can change the name shown on the printer by changing the "#define CUSTOM_MACHINE_NAME" line. More info here: http://marlinfw.org/docs/configuration/configuration.html#custom-machine-name
- Jeerka mentioned in the comments that you can change the language by finding the "#define LCD_LANGUAGE en" lines and changing "en" to your language. You can find a list of languages here: http://marlinfw.org/docs/development/lcd_language.html
- I do not cover setting up a sensor in this video. But I have been using a BLTouch with Marlin and found most of the info to set it up here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2091529 I also took some notes which you can find here: https://gist.github.com/MatthewRayfield/37dd515aaf712bf93a5052e67f1a4ca2
- If for some reason you need to downgrade to the original firmware you can find it here: https://www.3dprintersbay.com/anet-a8-a6-firmwares-latest
And check out http://matthewrayfield.com
