Installing & Testing the MAKERBASE PAD 7

hey you guys today we have this big display from maker base it's beautiful and fully loaded with features you want to know more stay tuned hi guys welcome back but before we start please don't forget to hit like on this video and if you are not a subscriber yet please click on the subscribe button so you can follow all our work and if you like our work and wish to help the channel please join our patreon page or click on any of the affiliate links posted below in the video description so a few videos back we talked about octoprint and explain how you can install it using a small Raspberry Pi and use it with your printer today we will show you a slightly different approach introducing the pad 7 from maker base it's an Android platform with a 7-inch touch display and includes many features such as g-code visualizer remote control internal slicing and more the package includes the pad the touch panel a USB cable a flat cable and a small heatsink and here is the main component at the front we have the big 7-inch display but it's at the back where all the magic happens the mainboard is the small one located near the center of the pad and it's equipped with an arm quad-core cortex a7 CPU there are many connectors all around the pad but unfortunately many of them are not yet ready to use here at the corner we have the input power connections we can use the black connector if we decide to use a power brick to power the pad or this green screw type connector if we decide to use the printers power supply to power the pad if you decide to use an external power supply make sure it can provide between 12 to 24 volts and three amps next we have a couple of switches switch number one is the reset button and switch number two is for power off and here we have the USB connector to plug in an external camera if we want to connect the pad to the printer using the flat cable this is where we connect that cable next we have the speaker connector a couple of filament run-out sensor inputs the power detection input and the power off connector here at the right side we have a small area for a backup battery normally is included but due to transportation restrictions they could not include the lithium battery inside the package we can buy one locally and solder the positive and negative leads here the battery will allow the pad to keep on running during a power cut at the left we have a Type B USB connector that we can use to connect the pad to the printer and a few extension connections at the top we have a type a USB connector that we can use to connect a flash drive or to connect the pad to the printer we also have the memory card reader and a small micro USB connection also at the top you have the Wi-Fi antenna there are two ways to connect the pad to the printer by USB cable or with the flat cable if your printer is equipped with a USB connector use this one instead okay enough talk let's connect the pad and test it out to test the pad we will use our TiVo neros and we will use the printers power supply to power the pad to make the power connection we need some electrical wire and some Ferrell's pay attention to the polarity on both pad and printers power supply on the pad side the plus and minus are written on the board next to the connector to secure the pad we designed a support mount we will share this one and also a stand-alone version on Thingiverse so check the link in the description below to secure the pad to the mount we need 4 m3 screws and nuts next is the touch panel the small flat cable goes through the top side and to the back of the pad be very careful when handling this small flat cable at the backside of the pad we carefully connect a small flat cable to the pad don't forget to push in the lock on the connector the small heatsink needs to be glued on the main processor which is the big one with the a3 marking on it and now we can act up our wires to the printers power supply again pay attention to the polarity the printer stock display can be disconnected and removed if you want to all around the touch panel is some double side tape that we will use to secure it make sure the display and panel are clean before you glue the touch in place we also need some m3 screws and T nuts to secure the mount to the printers side profile with the display installed you can now peel off the displays protection last but not least connect the USB cable to the printer and to the pad and the installation is now complete all we need to do now is turn on the printer a few seconds later we see the main screen before we can play with all the buttons and menus we need to set up the connection between the pad and the printer and define some printer parameters so to do that we press on toolbox and then settings here we have all the machine settings first is the printers volume in our case we will define 320 for the length 320 4th width and 400 for the maximum height next is the nozzle size 0.4 is okay X offset is 0 and it's okay and now we have the connection type we choose to use the USB cable so USB is okay next is timeout let's leave it like that extruder count is 1 for this printer heat bed yes it has a heat bed next is bad shape circular for Delta printers or rectangular for the other and the baud rate this must match your printers baud rate for the neros we know it's 115 200 you can check this value in your printers firmware or keep changing the value until you get communication running next is y offset we will leave it at 0 and the server we will also leave the default one light is the displays light intensity and if you move the screen down you will access the rest of the settings which includes the extruder and the bad max and minimum temperatures and access speeds at yen we click on save the pad also has slicing capability which means we can load up an STL file and print it directly in here you can set up the slicer settings you have settings in the basic tab and some more in the Advanced tab the last tab is for the start and ng code if you wish to edit them just touch the line you want and a keyboard pops up when done close the keyboard and hit save next is the Wi-Fi menu where you select your Wi-Fi and enter your credentials the bine menu is to establish a connection to a smartphone if you decide to install the app for it in the about menu you have the information about the system and you can also upgrade the pad software in here to update the software just copy the upgrade files to the root of the pads memory card and hit upgrade after each upgrade the pad will ask to reboot and finally the language where you select the language you want for the menus if we go back to the console tab and if the pad is communicating correctly with the printer we will see them communicating back and forth we can also send our own G code commands to the printer through here in machine control we have buttons to move the axes home the axes control the temperatures and push filament in and out one thing that is missing is a button to disable the motors and in the start printing tab we can start a print there are several inputs that we can choose such as USB local which is the pads memory SD card the printers memory card and the cloud so let's insert our memory card and run a test print we select SD card and the following one to print for the first test print we use the ripple cube STL file once loaded we can see the model preview and some of the basic slicer settings to start hit print in the printing screen we have the sliced preview with all the layers and the already printed layers will turn red if you prefer to use your own slicer you load the g-code files instead it's also possible to access the pad inside your network with your computer or smartphone to do that you need to type in the pads IP address in your internet browser most of the menus are exactly the same as the ones on the pad there's an additional tab called camera and we believe it's to get image feed from a webcam when connected to the pad but we couldn't get the ones we have to work with the pad the toolbox tab does not include the settings that we have on the pad we only have the about button and the language button the language option in here will only change the language of the remote menus the pad uses octoprint as base and you can access octoprint by typing - backup one two three after the IP address you can login by typing MKS in the username and password the version installed is 1.2 point 11 which is a very old version and since the operating system does not have the p IP command which is used to install packages we cannot update octoprint or install plugins on it we also tested the pad on a cree allottee under 3 regarding the print results we printed a bench e using the pad slicer and using as 3d the printing quality of the pad slicer is inferior as we suspected since we have just a few parameters available the ones that we can use we started with the same values that we have in our S 3d profile and this is the best we could get for the camera octa print and plugins installation we hope maker base can fix all that in future software updates so guys overall what do you guys think about this pad from maker base let us know by leaving York comments down below and that's it you guys thanks for watching and if you liked the video please give it a like also don't forget to hit the subscribe button if you are not a subscriber yet and also follow us on Facebook Instagram and Twitter we will see you guys next time bye

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Keywords: makerbase, mks, mks pad, pad7, 3dprinting, 3dprint, octoprint, impressão3d, impression 3d, impresion3d, imprimante 3d, 3d druck, drucken, 3d drucke, 3ddrucker, raspberry, creality, tevonereus, ender3, ender5, homers, installation, review, tutorial, howto, impressao 3d, impressora 3d, 3d printer, 3d printed, stampa3d, stampante 3d, stampanti 3d

Id: -D5JO3dypUI

Length: 14min 50sec (890 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 14 2020