{"id":839,"date":"2020-09-10T08:47:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T12:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/?p=839"},"modified":"2020-09-10T08:47:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T12:47:10","slug":"upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/10\/upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few days ago, I attempted to upgrade my Ender 3 3D printer from the stock motherboard from Creality to a new revision of the board. The original one doesn&#8217;t have a bootloader or the ability to easily flash the firmware, but a newer rev does. So back in October of 2019 I picked up a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3maHJ2r\" target=\"_blank\">v1.1.5 board<\/a> (mine was v1.1.4) and finally installed it this past weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After installing it, I realized the printer&#8217;s Z-axis was &#8220;broken&#8221;, in that the carriage with the nozzle\/extruder would go up but not come down. I did a bunch of troubleshooting and thought it was the new board. So, I ordered another board, but this time, decided to upgrade to a 32-bit processor and move from the Arduino-based platform from Creality. So, I got a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3m67f8R\" target=\"_blank\">BigTree Tech SKR Mini E3 v2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That arrived last night and I installed it, and the Z axis still didn&#8217;t work right. So, I started troubleshooting and found out it was actually the JTS connector on the cable for the Z limiter switch. I built and entirely new cable from scratch, and, voila! Fixed. Tonight I&#8217;m going to add new springs to the bed levelling system, and then I should be able to do a print with the new system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, I attempted to upgrade my Ender 3 3D printer from the stock motherboard from Creality to a new revision of the board. The original one doesn&#8217;t have a bootloader or the ability to easily flash the firmware, but a newer rev does. So back in October of 2019 I picked up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chewbode.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}