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I have built a Rostock Delta mini and I am having problems coding the firmware, because I don’t know anything about coding, can someone help? It is using a Ardiuno mega 2560 board. The kit is from Geetech.

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I had similar problems, there are some useful videos on this topic like

and information at RepRap.org

some patience is required though (at least in my case it was)

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Can you be more specific about the problems you are having?

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Thank you very much!

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sure, I had the problem that, after uploading, I couldn’t get a connection between repetier Host software and the Arduino Board (the printer). Although it seemed like it was connected, but all commands on the manual control I tried to send to the printer were adding to the “commands waiting”-list. I asked on Repetier- / Arduino- and on Smartfriendz (the DIY-kit manufacturer of my printer)-forums around, but the usual problems other people had I seemed to avoid like same baud rate in the firmware like in repetier, same COM-port (I use a pc).

But the upload was ok, I saw the in/out LED on the arduino blink during upload and also there was the confirmation “upload successful”. But also in the serial monitor of the Arduino Software I didn’t see anything hapening.

Until I made a firmware upload where I did NOT specify the COM-port in the Configuration.h - tab, I left it 0 (zero). And all of a sudden, I saw the firmware “talking” on the serial monitor, and the connection also worked, no more commands waitin.

That’s maybe not even a coding problem. fortunately smartfriendz have a customized marlin-firmware for their models in Github.

maybe that exists also for the Rostock?

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Hi

what problems do you have

you need to configure marlin basically to suit your setup . in case you find it difficult let me know

i own 2 x prusa i3 rework and steel …

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I have the complete printer built with everything hooked up, I have downloaded and installed Repetier Host on my computer. My problem is that I don’t know anything about coding the board to install the firmware. To upload the firmware the printer says to use arduino code writing program, which I have, but the actual part of code is what I am lost on since I don’t know what I’m doing. Can anyone give me any helpful tip or something like what PhLib did with the video links, maybe a article or something. Possibly somewhere to find the code?

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Hi

so you have repetier host installed , arduino ide installed , now you need marlin firmware , get a copy from github - GitHub - MarlinFirmware/Marlin: Marlin is an optimized firmware for RepRap 3D printers based on the Arduino platform. | Many commercial 3D printers come with Marlin installed. Check with your vendor if you need source code for your specific machine. and open it in arduino ide.

then configure the sections which meet your printer , when done upload it into your arduino mega board and test it by connecting with repetier host .

you should go on yt and find videos there , there are a lot of tutorials there !