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In this build we’ll be converting an Ender3 3D Printer into a Recreator3D; A PET#1 filament pultruder unit, which strips and converts soda bottles into usable 3D printing filament.

Ever since I got Ender 3 v2 (review), I wanted to upgrade a couple of things. As Creality’s firmware doesn’t cover every hardware upgrade that comes to my mind, I have to resort to compiling Marlin firmware myself. Don’t be put off, behind the complex programming lingo, lays a fairly straight forward list of values to change to tailor Marlin firmware to your needs. If you follow this guide, it’s unlikely you screw anything up. Let’s build Marlin 2.0 for Ender3 v2 to enable various upgrades.

I would strongly recommend to use Visual Studio Code and PlatformIO to configure Marlin 2.0 for Ender3 v2 and build your firmware. It takes only a couple of moments to set up, and you will be ready to compile (build your own) firmware.

After upgrading Ender 3 v2 with BL Touch I ended up with an unused Z-stop. I quickly found a way to repurpose it into a filament runout sensor. You can read it all about it here. If you already have a sensor in mind, you can simply enable it by modifying config files.