What Firmware Is Currently on My Mp Select Mini

Caution – THIS IS ONLY FOR V1 Printers, and only necessary for firmware revisions older than 22.41. Practice not attempt to upgrade firmware on V2 printers.

Later y’all’ve gotten your brand new Select Mini out of the box, the side by side big stride is updating the firmware. These printers came out originally with very unpolished firmware that had some serious issues.

Reading the SD card

If your Mini doesn’t show at least version 22.41 on startup, you should update the firmware before proceeding whatever further.


This means yous need some way to read the MicroSD card on your PC or Mac. Some laptops have SD card slots built in – many Macbooks do (as long equally you don’t take the newest models, damn you Apple!). If so, all you need is a super-cheap MicroSD to SD adapter (along with another 32gb card):
SanDisk 32GB Ultra microSDHC UHS-I (Newegg.com)

Simply, more probable you won’t have a reader on your laptop or desktop. Fortunately this is a dandy excuse to buy one. You lot’d exist amazed how often these come in handy, for digital photography, video, GoPros and even just routine file transfers. I highly recommend the
Kingston FCR-HS4 – $17.98 (Amazon.com)

In addition to enabling Wifi connectivity (though I don’t recommend using information technology at the moment), the newer firmware versions fix a number of bugs, improve stability and temperature accurateness and open the printer up to a number of possible improvements later.

And then lets get started! Watch the video on youtube and follow forth with the article below.

The easy way (move controller)

If everything worked the way it was supposed to, technology wouldn’t be nearly as fun right? The easy way to update the firmware is as follows:

1. The firmware is actually in two parts: The motion controller and the UI controller.
   Head on over to the semi-official Google Drive folder and grab the latest firmware revisions for each:
   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxyFI3iDaicLemUwcHZkbGtRbkU
   
   As of mid-Nov 2016, I recommend motion_v28 and UI_v42. In that location may be some rough edges to motion_v29, so best to avoid it for at present.

2. Unzip each firmware zip file and identify the .bin file for each firmware on the root of the SD card that came with your printer.

3. Put the SD card dorsum in the printer, plow it on, navigate to the print screen and select update.bin with the dial. You will come across the screen say “updating” for 10-15 seconds and so the new firmware revision volition be displayed on screen.

For even more than exact instructions, check the step-by-stride process here:
http://mpselectmini.com/motion_controller
as well equally the brusque video at the bottom of the page.

However, if, like me, yous seem to make electronics do crazy things without even touching them, this procedure may not work.

In my example, the screen would flash momentarily and put me right back on the list of the SD bill of fare contents. Subsequently nearly an hour of frustration it was time to motion on to the brute-strength method (aka the “Recovery Method”)

The viking style (move controller)

Maybe surprisingly, this is just a tiny amount more work.

1. After step two of the piece of cake way, grab whatsoever file that is at least 1 megabyte in size, copy information technology to the root of the SD card, then rename information technology to “fcupdate.flg”. Make certain you lot accept
   file extensions visible
   in Windows!

2. Put the SD card dorsum in the printer.

3. Turn on the printer and watch information technology update successfully. Revel in your abilities.

4. Take the SD card out of the printer and delete fcupdate.flg from the SD card.

Halfway done! Side by side upward is the UI controller. It’due south a lilliputian trickier, but a lot less probable to go wonky.

Updating the UI controller

1. Grab the UI controller firmware from
   https://bulldoze.google.com/drive/folders/0BxyFI3iDaicLemUwcHZkbGtRbkU
   
   As of mid-November 2016, I recommend UI_v42.

2. Unzip the firmware nil file and place the lcd.bin on the root of the SD card.

3. Turn the printer off, disconnect the USB cablevision, and put the SD card back in the printer.

4. Movement the X-axis all the way to the left (towards the tower assembly) until the endstop clicks in. Motion the Y-axis all the way back until the endstop clicks in.

5. Push button down the dial button on the front of the printer.

6. Applying light pressure level to both 10 and Y axes to ensure the endstops stay clicked in, and while still belongings down the punch button, turn on the printer.
   The hotend fan will spin on afterwards a few seconds, once this happens you can release the dial button (but continue to go on both X and Y axis endstops pressed).
   After about a minute the LCD will turn on (it will be blackness during the update).

7. Turn off the printer.

8. Delete lcd.bin from the SD carte. Put the SD card back in the printer.

9. Plough the printer back on and pat yourself on the back for successfully updating the firmware!

Again for a prissy curt video of the procedure, check out Matthew Upp’s wiki here:
http://mpselectmini.com/ui_controller

With the firmware all sorted, side by side on the listing is tuning the electronics inside the Mini. Fortunately thanks to the amazing community, this is a actually fast and painless process. Click on over to
Function 3: Slicer and Settings
(Coming presently) to keep on trucking!