Hi allAs a community we are all dependent on a couple of core technologies, one of which is the printer’s firmware.Chances are the firmware your printer uses is Marlin, an open source project organised by Scott Lahteine. Marlin is used by Prusa, Ultimaker, LulzBot, Anet, Creality, PrintrBot and many others.Amazingly Marlin development runs off less than $1,500 a month despite it being used on millions of printers.https://ift.tt/2P7w0kt can help support Marlin’s development to make our printer smarter and do more stuff by supporting the project on Patreon. If we can increase the fund by just $550 dollars per month Scott can:Improve documentation of Marlin (less than $70 needed to reach this goal). Also better documentation will allow more people to take part in development making Marlin even better and adding all kinds of fancy new things.Work with developers to improve support and allow support for custom boards and closed platforms (very probably making them better) ($560 needed to reach this goal).There are over 209,000 people subscribed to r/3Dprinting, if even 1% of us supported Scott with $1 he would reach this goal and a lot more, allowing him to do even more cool stuff. I’m going to put $5 in a month because if better documentation saves me a few hours of looking for help its paid for itself, I hope you will kick in a few dollars too. It took me literally 2 minutes to sign up, just click ‘become a patron’ and enter your details and you’re done :)Thanks https://ift.tt/2MJns1B