Anet A8 Plus customisation

Today I have been working on installing the final cables into the chains. Having everything demountable was a lot more work, but it will make later changes and upgrades far simpler.  I started by creating the LED mount itself This takes a single Neopixel LED and connects a 5V power feed and data in and out. The 5V is already on the carriage and so, now, is the Neopixel data. This mounts to the modified BL-Touch mount as The other side of the mount now has low-profile cable routing included for both the new LED and the BL-Touch cabling The modified mount uses the same fixings as the original - to the rear of the carriage. I then needed to modify Marlin to increase the number of LEDs from 46 to 47. The other change is to add the facility to have a static Neopixel LED The cabling in the chain is now complete and it needs to be re-attached to the newly modified carriage mount. I have also been adding clear labelling to each of the cables so that they make sense in a few months' time. O...

Today I have been working on a few tweaks. I have now (I think) finally completed the design for my storage trays. It now has more parts than Alec Guiness in Kind Hearts and Coronets (Eddie Murphy in the Nutty Professor, for younger readers), but everything clips together to provide for the strongest print with the minimum of supports. This should mean that it will use less material and still provide for a strong assembly.  I came up with this joint for one of the corners. It comprises three lugs which can be printed vertically.  Which fit into three corresponding slots and then locked into place by sliding along This then provides a very tight and firm corner fixing meaning that each corner can be printed in its own optimum orientation and removes the need for supports.  It's a very simple, but very positive and firm fit. Obviously these are sample cut-down panels to test the joint. I plan to print the final version of the final part for this tomorrow and install the fir...