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I was unhappy with the standard printed case that Printrbot suggests for the LCD v2 (with card reader). Moving my metal simple with hits heated bed, associated big power supply and the non-attached LCD screen was just ridiculous. Buying an extension for the power supply solved one problem (can now disconnect the power from the pigtail rather than from the board itself), but I needed to attach the LCD. I found several options and ended up remixing this case with a shortened version of the pedestal stands I found in THIS model: LCD Screen Printbot metal simple, by vincentjalink.

Because I wanted a good connection between the front foot/stand and the LCD case, I changed where the split in the case happened- it"s now parallel with the face/screen. The board affixes to the face with 4 m3 screws that I had lying around- *Note: I had to tap out the holes- consider enlarging a wee bit!

In order to print with the Printrbot Simple Metal you have to connect your computer with your printer via USB and make sure that the computer continuously sends data to the printer. If your computer crashes, your printer stops and your maybe long hour print is a piece of chunk. If your computer goes into stand by the result is the same. And there are various other reasons like energy consumption. The way to go is untethered printing.

The Printrbot Simple Metal is capable of that in two ways, both of them require a Mini-SD card inserted into the printer. The first way is to write the G-Codes generated by your Slicer, typically Repetier Host and Slicr to the SD-Card. Name it auto0.gcode, insert the card into the printer. Shut it down and on again. The printer should now start to print. But you will not know if it works for a couple of minutes as it’s first heating up. Nothing moves, etc. I tried that a couple of times and found the procedure to be very annoying.

Your Printrbot is already capable of displaying a nice LCD-Menu with all kinds of options and the option to browse the SD-card and run any print from it untethered from your PC. All that is needed is a Standard 20×4 LCD Display and a rotary encoder. A rotary encoder is a special kind of input sensor that sends signals when it is rotated.

Printrbot sells these LCDs for $65 in their store. But they still have that wood look. It does not match the Metals Design. And, as I am living in Germany you will have to wait a few days for it to arrive and you will likely have some issues regarding customs. I did not found a german distributor a few weeks ago so I wanted to built my own. A few days ago I have found 3ddinge.de selling the LCD Controller in Germany for €70. That’s a lot of money and by doing it yourself you will end up with 30-40 Euros for the LCD Controller.

As said before the Printrbot has everything built in. There is an expansion slot (Exp2) with 14 pins that allows for connecting the PCB that hosts the LCD Display and the rotary encoder. I have found an excellent resource: Ricks Blog. Rick explains the pinout of the Expension slot and has created his own PCB. Instead of building my own PCB, I just used Ricks PCB Layout he provides and sent them to Smart Prototyping for manufacturing. I received the PCBs 3 weeks later. In the meantime I ordered the BOM. Rick provides everything in his blog but just a quick tip to resistor R1 which will depend on the LCD display you want to use: Adafruit has a very detailed explanation of how to calculate the correct value for the Resistor: Adafruits 20×4 LCD Character Tutorial.

Find a nice LCD 20×4 HD44780 Display. There are a lot of different colors available. Adafruit sells them for example. I opted for a nice White on Blue Display.

The Printrboard electronic set was designed by members of the Printrbot team in order to eliminate the production and functionality shortcomings of older RepRap electronics sets. Printrboard improves upon the previous production-grade electronics set (Gen6) by adding heatbed and SD card support, reverting to 1/16 microstepping Allegro stepper drivers, and improving connectivity reliability and reducing cost by elimination of the FTDI UART chip. Printrboard also has expansion headers supporting I2C, SPI, UART, and ADC pins. All extra I/O ports of the AT90USB have been broken out to headers for prototyping and expansion.

Note: PrintrBot Simple Metal Plus swaps phases 1 and 2, and their polarities, on the X-axis, by attaching the crimp housing and wires with its ends swapped. Alternatively, if the crimp housing is attached with the same orientation as the other axes, wires from either phase (but not both) can be swapped to achieve the same effect.

Signal Input from sensor (for induction sensors like Printrbot"s auto-level sensor, this will be +5 or +12V, depending on jumper selection, when triggered)

RevB [February 2012]: First release to manufacturing (RTM), built for first batch of Printrbots. Each stepper driver IC utilizes an SMT solder jumper, MS-X, MS-Y, MS-Z, MS-E to set the microstepping ratio. These jumpers are manually soldered in production and will be eliminated in future batches.

RevC [April 2012]: (Non-Printrbot Release) Fixed manufacturability of SMT solder jumpers, MS-X, MS-Y, MS-Z, MS-E. Fixed "printrbot" logo on bottom silkscreen.

Fork of the PrintrBot Firmware to work with RAMPS, it was tested with RAMPS 1.4 - Arduino Mega (Chinese, very much Chinese) - Drivers DRV 8825 - PrintrBot Power Supply . I haven"t test the LCD Smart display that you will find in the description Below, Work in Progress.

In the file "configuration.h" you will find between line 306 and 336 all settings for PrintBot Model available at the time of publish except the new PrintrBot Simple, AND by the way is not SIMPLE at all... Just saying...

Printrbot founder and CEO, Brook Drumm apparently foresaw the demand for these larger-than-normal 3D printers begin to gain traction over a year ago. Back in June, we reported that he had been working on creating a larger than normal 3D printer. He had built it for a company called 11dy as a trade for photography work that they did for him. While we had a feeling that Drumm had something up his sleeve, more so than just creating a one-off design for a client, Drumm never mentioned anything about mass manufacturing these machines at that time. Things changed yesterday though, when the Printrbot Pro was officially unveiled.

“I have wrestled with this monster for over a year,” explained Drumm. “I buil[t] 5 prototypes from scratch and hated them all. The last one was too ambitious with servos and ballscrews… That last one printed beautifully after, oh, SO much work, but I tore it down the next day and went back to the drawing board, hacking together a totally new design in a couple days from spare parts lying around. The Printrbot Pro is aimed at those who want a very large build volume but don’t want to pay the big bucks for other options out there. “

Drumm also made two more announcements. He unveiled a Printrbot CNC router called the “Crawlbot”, which will have the ability to cut objects 4’x 8′ in dimensions, and announced that the Printrbot Play has gone on sale today for just $399, completely assembled. Orders for the Play can be placed now, and shipping will commence on June 1st.

The Printrbot Play is constructed of metal and features the all new Alu Extruder v2 as well. It is targeted toward beginners, kids and “enthusiasts”, and it has the following specifications:

Without a doubt, these two new printers and the CNC router will all bring Printrbot even more satisfied customers. Drumm has quickly built his company up from a Kickstarter baby into one of the more popular desktop 3D printer manufacturers in the world. His customers are usually extremely happy because his machines are built with such high quality.

Launch Cura. This is a good time to check for updated versions (1.5x is supported, 2.0 as of this writing is not).Printrbot posts the latest support version as part of their required downloads.

If you"ve spent time in the past tweaking your Cura settings go ahead and make a backup before doing any updates. It is always a good idea to make backup of your settings by going to Cura >File >Save Profile... and creating a copy of your Cura settings for Printrbot Play. Give it a name like "Joe User"s Printrbot Play Cura Settings March 2017.ini" so you"ll know what it is.

In Cura go to >Machine >Machine Settings and choose "Change machine name" and rename your Printrbot Play to something like "OLD Printrbot Play" and then choose "Add new machine" and have Cura create you a new Printrbot Play machine to work with.

Tell Cura to load Printrbot"s official "Play.GettingStarted.ini" profile setting. This is included as part of Printrbot"s required downloads. Mine is dated: July 15, 2015 so I don"t get the sense it is updated very often.

In Cura go >File >Preferences and make sure Printing window type is set to Pronterface UI and not basic which will give you no user control over your Printrbot.

In Cura goto >File and choose >Load Model. Go ahead and load the Printrbot 3mm text box model to see how your filament is printing. You should be an EXPERT in being able to look at this silly flat square and be able to judge what is going on.

Before you hit PRINT be sure to be ready to pull out the power cord or turn off your Printrbot with a power strip switch if the print nozzle goes crashing into your build plate (usually happens when probe slipped from not being fastened correctly or broke free from the last crash).

Use the M501 command in Cura"s USB Print Pronterface interface to see your Printrbots current settings. Look for the M212 X,Y and Z line to see the current settings.

If you"ve never used the Pronterface to make adjustments to your Printrbot"s settings then these steps may be a bit frustrating. Basically a 3D printer is a DUMB computer numerical controlled device (CNC) that follows simple machine control commands to move the extruder along the X, Y and Z axis as well as setting a temperature and amount of extrusion. M Commands are simple machine code commands written in the G-Code language used in almost all CNC machines today. It has not changed a lot since the 1950s where it was invented at MIT and became a loosely defined international standard (ISO 6983).

If you used a text editor to look at the G-Code file Cura creates for your Printrbot to follow you would find a long text list of machine commands mostly involved in telling the 3D extruder the path it should be following.

M commands are Misc commands that are specific to 3D printers and a full list can be found here on RepRap"s website. M212 is the Set Bed Level Sensor Offset command for Marlin based G-Code 3D printers like Printrbot.

If your 3D print came out stringy or you saw that the extruder needs to be a little bit closer to the plate you would enter the command "M212 Z-0.2" to tell the Printrbot to move .2mm closer to the build plate.

Do not make big Z axis changes since you can easily crash the extruder into the bed and damage it. Printrbot recommends testing in -0.2mm intervals (M212 Z-0.2, M212 Z-0.4, M212 Z-0.6, etc).

If you found that the extruder head was smashing into the last layer and that you needed a little bit more room you would think you could enter a positive value like "M212 Z0.3" to tell the Printrbot to move .3mm further away from the original Z0 build plate value, but this isn"t the case. You"ll need to go through the calibration step and physically readjust the probe higher!

Once you find the write offset amount you need to tell the Printrbot to store this new M212 value. This is done by issuing a new G-Code command "M501" which says save the current setup values to the Printrbot,ini setup file.

Bracket for centering the LCD used in the AGB IPS LCD kits from Funny Playing 09/05/2019 - More clearance for V2 ribbon 06/19/2019 - Fits more shell types 06/20/2019 - Print without supports LCD Kits are available from our store:...

No replacement for an actual LCD but it might help if you need a stand in or a model or something. ...The measurements should be accurate enough for bracket design or shell modification or such. Measured from a V2 kit (pictured). Category: Electronics

No replacement for an actual LCD but it might help if you need a stand in or a model or something. The measurements should be accurate enough for bracket design or shell modification or such. ... Measured from a V2 kit (pictured).

Battery cover for my original GBA was broken for a while, so I decided to model up a replacement for it! Works great printed off of my Printrbot Simple 1405, but YMMV.

No replacement for an actual LCD but it might help if you need a stand in or a model or something. The measurements should be accurate enough for bracket design or shell modification or such. Measured from a V3 kit (pictured with v2 button contact...

No replacement for an actual LCD but it might help if you need a stand in or a model or something. ...The measurements should be accurate enough for bracket design or shell modification or such. Measured from a V3 kit (pictured with v2 button contact...

Secure the bracket to the display with 2 small strips of double-sided tape Update July 28th 2020 - Tolerance changes to better support the 3M custom tape, and facilitate printing with less accuracy LCD Kits are available from our store:...

Thes is a remix from Ender 3 V2 left side LCD mount by asilgado September 28, 2020 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4609399 There are 3 different options LH ,RH ,LH adjustable Printer brand: Creality Printer: Ender 3 V2 Rafts: No Supports: Yes...

I didn"t like idea of using two sided tape to secure it. LCD is really thin and if if you don"t manage to center it from get go, you"ll risk breaking it. Not to...

This is a remix of my previous LCD holder, I"ve updated LCD posts for greater strength and added a tilt to the LCD holder to allow user better comfort when using. LCD Holder will need support material when printing. ...

Summary This is a remix of my previous LCD holder, I"ve updated LCD posts for greater strength and added a tilt to the LCD holder to allow user better comfort when using. LCD Holder will need support material when printing. ...

Prints with no supports. The front and back snap together with no screws, however you do need 2.5mm screws for the LCD driver PCB. ...The screen can be mounted using the 2 wings on the sides of the back panel.

* Support 15.6" LCD screens (See full list at end) * Minimal screws * Divided into parts smaller than 20x20 cm for small printers * I use "HDMI EDP LCD Controller Driver Board Module (2 Lanes 30 Pin)" from Aliexpress as LCD controller. ...(See at...

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