Category Archives: 3D Printing

Uploading Geeetech Sanguino firmware from Mint 19/Ubuntu 18.04

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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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