I recently had to upgrade a 32bit board (MKS Robin Nano de MakerBase) to install a Marlin firmware, specifically version 2.0.1. I usually use sublime and the arduino IDE, but this time I set about doing it with Visual Studio Code and its great extension Platform.io IDE. I had previously heard of it on our Telegram channel, but had never ...

Since I started to “play” in the world of the 3D printers, about 4 years ago, I have always worked with electronics from MakerBase company. There has only been one exception, in the first printer that I bought and that introduced me fully to this world. This printer mounted a proprietary board “Made in Spain”. In the rest of the ...

About a month ago we published an interesting article about The 10 most interesting Octoprint plugins (and how to install them). Among all the plugins that we mentioned in this article, there was one quite interesting that allowed us to visualize a 3D mesh of our printing surface. Its name was Bed Level Visualizer and it was certainly illustrative when ...

A few months ago, exactly in June 2019, the development team behind the Raspberry Pi devices announced its new version, 4 specifically. These new versions brought important updates and benefits, especially in the performance of this devices. However, different users began to report different issues with these Raspberry Pi 4 boards. From intermittent WiFi connections, USB-C port cable and charger ...

Timelapses are a widely used photographic technique in which we try to capture events that usually occur at very slow speeds, through numerous photographic images. The results are usually impressive, it must be said. The main idea is to take these photographs with a certain time interval (configured by us) between shots, and in this way represent any type of ...