December 29, 2024
Description
The Ideaformer Cobees is an awful printer and if you own one, you have my sympathy. I tried to warn you, but my review never got much traction.
This never-quite-completed project was my attempt to salvage what I could from the thing and turn int into a functional printer. I got bored and frustrated before finishing it. In theory, all you should need in addition to what you see here is to figure out the controller display. I've included the stock MKS TFT24 board bootloader, but I was never able to get it flashed. The stock cobees FW is absolute trash and effectively unusable. You're probably better off just swapping out the display entirely. Oh, and there's probably some clearance issues with the part cooling duct that you'd want to sort out.
This project has been sitting ignored for several years, so I don't remember what the actual BoM is. The frame is 8 300mm sticks of 2020 extrusion held together with various off-the-shelf brackets and attached to the cobees motion system with 4 printed brackets. The hotend is a generic V6 knockoff and the part fan is I think a 4010.
Everything else, you're just going to have to figure out for yourself. If you don't think you can sus out how it goes together from the pics provided, you probably shouldn't even try.
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution
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