Category Archives: 3D Printing

Geeetech Prusa i3 Aluminium axis calibration

Posted on August 23, 2018 by james

My first step in calibrating the printer was to check the filament feed rate. There didn’t seem much sense working on anything else if filament wasn’t getting to the nozzle at the correct rate. So once again I removed the … Continue reading →

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Uploading Geeetech Sanguino firmware from Mint 19/Ubuntu 18.04

Posted on August 21, 2018 by james

This evening I dared to hit the “upload” button after compiling Geeetech’s firmware. I was immediately faced with a huge number of timeouts and other errors that all looked quite horrible, but somewhat reminiscent of a baud rate mismatch. Enabling … Continue reading →

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Compiling the Geeetech Sanguino firmware with a recent Arduino IDE

Posted on August 21, 2018 by james

As I have posted previously, trying to compile the Geeetech Sanguino firmware with a recent version of the Arduino IDE results in the following errors: In file included from sketch/SdFile.h:27:0,                  from sketch/cardreader.h:8,                  from sketch/Marlin_main.cpp:44: SdBaseFile.h:38: error: using typedef-name … Continue reading →

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Mint19/Ubuntu 18.04 configuring arduino IDE to work with Geeetech Sanguino

Posted on August 21, 2018 by james

Before I start work tuning my Geeetech Prusa i3 clone I thought I’d best get to the point where I can rebuild the firmware supplied by Geeetech. Their firmware appears to be based on an early version of the Marlin … Continue reading →

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Geeetech Aluminium Prusa i3 clone: 3DBenchy

Posted on August 20, 2018 by james

I should perhaps have taken some time to do some printer “tuning”, but look, it works! So clearly I want to print stuff out, not play with the innards even more! 3DBenchy (or BenchyMcBenchFace as it is now known in … Continue reading →

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Geeetech Aluminium Prusa i3 clone, first “upgrades”

Posted on August 20, 2018 by james

A couple of things niggled me during testing that were simple to fix so I thought I’d make a note of them here… First, the USB connector (where the controller board connects to a PC) means that the supplied USB … Continue reading →

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Geeetech Aluminium Prusa i3 clone build review

Posted on August 20, 2018 by james

I posted a while back that I’d bought one of these to build with the children as a summer holiday project. As it turned out my son didn’t seem that interested, but my daughter has got involved with the build … Continue reading →

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Plastic is the new ink

Posted on May 23, 2018 by james

Yesterday a box of goodies arrived at our door, somewhat sooner than expected (and not as large, either): This is the aluminium-framed Geeetech Prusa i3 clone that will hopefully be an interesting project for myself and the children to get … Continue reading →

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