My first printer was a cheap sub-$200 Prusa-clone from China, a Geeetech i3 Pro W. It took me 10 hour to assemble and about 10,000 hours of tuning. Yet about 6 month ago the oh-so-cheap wooden frame decided to fall apart. No matter my tuning efforts, I couldn’t get anything out of it anymore.
After I got in touch with Amazon Customer Service, I was offered a full-refund since they apparently still covered it. Yet after packing everything and attaching the Canada Post return label, **a terrible idea came to my mind: what if I could repurpose all of this wasted hardware? Most of Geeetech parts are actually very standard in the 3D-Printing world.
The same week a friend of mine told me about the fancy CoreXY printers that were gaining momentum. A quick Google Search later, I was finding stories of people turning their similar Anet A8 printers into Hypercube Evolution, a famous CoreXY design.
I was so going to unpack the parcel and so get to work.
This project is currently in progress. Some random notes are available below.
Link to the Medium story draft:
The FreeCAD model is hosted at: