How do you do all of this? (Walkthrough)
I have searched all over and I can't find anywhere that explains how to "do" this. What I mean is:
-I think I have to put a new firmware on the MINI - how do I do that?
-I found a spot where I can download a .ZIP file... but what do I "do" with this? The zip contains a bunch of files that all look the same, I assume those go on the USB stick?
-Something about having to enable something in PrusaSlicer?
I just feel like there has to be a walkthrough somewhere but for the life of me I can't find it. Any ideas?
Best Answer by Canardiain:
I figured it out on my own.
For anyone else who was confused, like me, you have to:
- Go here: https://help.prusa3d.com/downloads
- Scroll down to "ORIGINAL PRUSA MINI+"
- Click the link for the Firmware
- Download the ZIP file
- Unzip the ZIP file
- The ZIP file contains many different seemingly identical files - all say "English" and then some other language on them. I think you can just pick any of them if you only need English, so that's what I did. (I picked English and French)
- Copy this file onto a USB stick. Make sure there is no other file on the USB stick with the same type of file extension
- Put the USB stick in your printer, and reboot it (turn it off/turn it on or press the reset button)
- It will ask you if you want to flash new firmware, say yes/ok. It'll do its thing
- In Prusa Slicer, you have to upgrade it to be able to use the Input Shaping. To do that you click on Configurations, and then have to go through a whole bunch of windows to re-add a new printer basically.
- You will end up with a regular printer (no input shaping) and a new printer which HAS input shaping, and then when you slice your files, you can pick from a drop-down which one you want to use.
(I feel like someone way more experienced should have/could have posted that months ago or put up a simple 2 minute video showing how to do this, rather than let people stumble around on their own hoping they don't brick their machines.)
RE: How do you do all of this? (Walkthrough)
https://help.prusa3d.com/article/firmware-updating-mini-mini_124784
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RE: How do you do all of this? (Walkthrough)
I figured it out on my own.
For anyone else who was confused, like me, you have to:
- Go here: https://help.prusa3d.com/downloads
- Scroll down to "ORIGINAL PRUSA MINI+"
- Click the link for the Firmware
- Download the ZIP file
- Unzip the ZIP file
- The ZIP file contains many different seemingly identical files - all say "English" and then some other language on them. I think you can just pick any of them if you only need English, so that's what I did. (I picked English and French)
- Copy this file onto a USB stick. Make sure there is no other file on the USB stick with the same type of file extension
- Put the USB stick in your printer, and reboot it (turn it off/turn it on or press the reset button)
- It will ask you if you want to flash new firmware, say yes/ok. It'll do its thing
- In Prusa Slicer, you have to upgrade it to be able to use the Input Shaping. To do that you click on Configurations, and then have to go through a whole bunch of windows to re-add a new printer basically.
- You will end up with a regular printer (no input shaping) and a new printer which HAS input shaping, and then when you slice your files, you can pick from a drop-down which one you want to use.
(I feel like someone way more experienced should have/could have posted that months ago or put up a simple 2 minute video showing how to do this, rather than let people stumble around on their own hoping they don't brick their machines.)