3D Printing Less Than a Week and the Warranty Is Already Gone: Installing ZMOD on the AD5X I had the AD5X for less than a week. I hadn't done a second print yet. And I was already on GitHub reading about ZMOD. ZMOD is a community firmware mod for the Flashforge AD5X. It replaces the stock firmware with something you can actually get into: SSH
3D Printer Retiring the Anet A8: Eight Years, One Close Call, and a Printer That Came Assembled Eight years with the Anet A8, from MOSFET mods and melting connectors to retirement. A look at what it took to keep a notorious fire hazard running, and why the Flashforge AD5X is a better way to spend a weekend.
Drone Upgrading the ANET A8 with Ramps 1.4 When the Anet A8's stock mainboard gave up on one stepper driver, the obvious fix was to replace the entire board with a RAMPS 1.4. A walkthrough of the swap, the firmware, and the inevitable wiring mistakes.
Raspberry Pi Squirrel Camera! Building a motion-triggered squirrel cam with a Raspberry Pi after finding the porch pumpkins under attack. A quick project that mostly already existed and just needed assembling.
