[3D Printing] Introduce my 3D Printer, PRUSA i3 MK3S+ & Enclosure and How to upgrade Firmware

    About 10 years ago, Some people said 3D Printer is the core of the 4th Industrial Revolution and they assured every home buys 3d printer and prints what they needed.

    Well, If you look 3D Printer companies' (like SSYS, DDD) stock price of 10-years range, you can easily check the conclusion.

    Most of us didn't buy 3D printers and they're used only in Laboratories or Figure Makers.

    Then why did I buy something that confirmed as inefficient and expensive.


    Let's put this story for a while, What do you think about Robotics?

    In my childhood, I had been told robots are the Game Changer of Human Labor, so In the future, every people doesn't need to lift heavy stuff and free from hard simple labor. Although Robotics had made great improvement in recent years, but we can't easily call the exact company that make use of practical Robots.


    I think 3D Printing is the key to saving the wreck of Aerospace and Robotics.

    Aerospace also had been stagnanted because of absurdly high cost. Like Elon Musk said, We thrown away Boeing 747 Max after use once.


    But if we use 3D Printer, we can easily get accurate and low-cost parts and duplicate as many times as you want.

    That's why I bought 3D Printer and study 3D Printing for Aerospace Engineering.

     


    So stop talking, let's see PRUSA i3 MK3S+ and its Enclosure !

    There are lots of Enclosures for 3D Printer so it's hard to pick most proper one.

     

    While browsing the 3D Printer Communities, I was inspired by someone's idea (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4200634). IKEA's Platsa would be a good choice, but because of its height, Filament Spool had to be outside. Like that.

    MYPROTEIN is the best SPOOL HOLDER PROTEIN company.

     

     

    And after operating the printer, I was worried about the noise. It was definitely not quiet.

    So I bought noise filtering sponge and sticked it on the walls except the front.

    Noise is not dramatically decreased but I'm satisfied. (To be Honest, it's cool)

     

     

    Before assembling, I knew Prusa's Printer is infamous for its assembly difficulty, but I didn't expect it took 20 hours.

    But it didn't make me give up, it was full of fun !

     

    If you're interested in 3D Printer and want to buy one, I strongly suggest you to build one, not just buy complete version.

     

    Because 3D Printer is not elaborate nor sturdy, it actually needs hand quite frequently. So if you don't understand how it operates, how can you fix the problem ?

     

     

    Sometimes, it lays Alien from Movie ' Ailen vs Predator '.

     

     

     

    And let's find out how to upgrade Firmware for your Prusa 3D Printer !

     

    I'll show you the way how to upgrade using Prusa Slicer. 

     

     

    If you checked printer needs to be upgrade, first, connect your printer with computer and go to PRUSA website(https://help.prusa3d.com/downloads) and select you printer.

     

    Mine is MK3S+, so download FIRMWARE 3.11.0 and decompress the file.

     

     

    Then open Prusa Slicer and click ' Configuration '. Then you can see ' Flash Printer Firmware ' below.

     

     

    Then click ' Browse ' and select hex file in your decompressed file.

     

     

    Next, just click ' Flash! ' ! Now it's done !

     

    After few seconds, the printer will automatically start upgrading. 

     

     

    After upgrading, you can check its Firmware version.

     

     

     

    Thanks for your reading and I hope you got what you wanted !

    * Thanks for people who give me Inspiration and Source.

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