Talk:Switching to RAMPS 1.4/@comment-80.229.224.57-20180809194103

Useful information, but a bit out of date. First and foremost because it is now relatively easy to get a replacement Tronxy Melzi 2.0 board from ebay, for probably a lot less than converting to a separate RAMPS setup. Expect to pay about 20 GBP at the moment. https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=melzi+v2&_sop=15&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC0.A0.H0.Xmelzi+board.TRS0&_nkw=melzi+board&_sacat=0

Updating the firmware, and a bunch of other stuff is here -> https://www.reprap.org/wiki/Melzi However the usual caveats apply. I haven't verified this will work (but it should), and if you brick the thing, you are responsible, not me.

Having said all that, the process looks fairly obvious.

That page also shows you how to add a bluetooth console. There is somewhere on the vast pot of random information called the internet, a similar set of instructions to add an ESP8266 (or perhaps it was an ESP32) board to give you direct WiFi access, or you could use a Raspberry Pi and OctoPrint/OctoPi (which is the route I went down).More info here -> https://octoprint.org/