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--- reprap:electronics:ramps [2018/04/10 23:24] – [Why would I want to do this?] 3dguy
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   * Additional hardware. It goes without saying, but you’ll need to have some tools to make the jump. They aren’t mandatory, but if you’re serious about 3D printing—and I hope you are!—this will pay dividends moving forward. My specific recommendations for adapting your kit to a RAMPS setup are:
     * DuPont connectors. This is the name of those li’l black ends you… that… well, that… I’m bad at describing this. So, I’ll use a picture instead:
-**ANOTHER PICTURE PLACEHOLDER. FIXME **
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     * Yes, that thing. There are kits on Amazon (I’m a huge fan of theirs; you’ll learn this quickly) that sell these connectors at amazingly low cost. The one that I’d recommend is this one here, which contains 425 pieces for $10.99 USD. Hilitchi also has other kits going upwards of 1,000 pieces (which is what I got, but I’m a nerd) for $16.87 USD.
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 ====Making it Happen====
-  - Go to the Arduino website and download the Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment; link to the page giving you the choice of platforms is here). Once downloaded, install it. On Windows systems at the very least, you’ll also be prompted to install the Arduino drivers as well. Though I didn’t notice the same thing on my iMac, it may apply to other systems. Either way, this is key. You need to have those drivers installed to be able to interact with your Arduino MEGA board and upload the firmware.
+  - Go to the Arduino website and download the Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment; link to the page giving you the choice of platforms is here). Once downloaded, install it. On Windows systems at the very least, you’ll also be prompted to install the Arduino drivers as well. Though I didn’t notice the same thing on my iMac, it may apply to other systems. Either way, this is key. You need to have those [[https://softwaretested.com/drivers/|drivers]] installed to be able to interact with your Arduino MEGA board and upload the firmware.
 Go to the Marlin GitHub repository and download the latest version of Marlin (from the link provided, click Clone or download > Download ZIP). You don’t have to do anything extra with this just yet; just unzip it and stand by.
     * Though you don’t have to do anything extra, I’ve also taken the liberty of posting my MARLIN Configuration files for you to download. These files will need to be unzipped to the “Marlin” directory of the Marlin firmware you downloaded earlier, and overwrite the pre-existing files. PLEASE BACKUP YOUR ORIGINALS BEFORE DOING THIS. Also note that these files are only guaranteed to work for the Anet A8 specifically, but may work for Prusa i3 clones in general.