I was given a set of generation 3 “Tech Zone Remix” electronics from a friend who purchased them a long time ago but never used them. I found some documentation for it here:
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reprap.org]
and here:
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reprap.org]
I was able to get the electronics all wired up and connected to my PC, and connect to the electronics using ReplicatorG by choosing “Cupcake” for the machine type - I was told and also read that it comes default with MakerBot firmware, so this seemed to be the correct choice. I wasn’t able to connect with any other machine type, but Cupcake worked and I was able to do some basic tests like jogging the steppers in the machine control panel. However ReplicatorG told me my firmware was out of date (v1.4, recommended v3.0 or newer). On the HowTo page I had read that it needs to have the firmware updated, so I followed all the instructions on [
reprap.org] and ran into problems. I couldn’t get the FiveD firmware to compile with the latest Arduino v1.0.1 and Sanguino v23r4 extensions, I believe the specific error complained about ‘Serial1’ not being defined. I spent many hours going over the configuration and code but couldn’t resolve it.
Finally after much effort, I was able to compile the FiveD firmware using Arduino v18 and Sanguino v18r2_1_4. This compiled the FiveD firmware without any errors and I was able to upload the firmware successfully from the Arduino IDE. However now the motherboard presents me with a slowly blinking red light after start up (LED is blinking 1 second on, 1 second off) and ReplicatorG won’t connect anymore.
I’ve also tried compiling the Teacup firmware using the Gen3 configuration, but I can’t seem to get past an error that tells me HEATER_EXTRUDER is not declared.
What can I do to get these electronics working? I see here [
reprap.org] that it’s possible to get the “Sprinter” firmware working on this board with some re-wiring, but I’d rather not take that step yet until I figure out what’s wrong with what I have.
Thanks in advance for any help.
