MickMake Mail #20: SAMG53, SAM4S & Anet 3D printer // News

Not much coming in to the MickMake studios this week so I delve in to a 3D printer I received from BangGood a couple of weeks back.

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SAM4S Xplained Pro

I bought a couple of these for a project I’m working on that relies heavily on ultra low power consumption. So, two boards to play with.

The SAM4S has:

• 120MHz Cortex-M4.
• 2M program flash.
• 160KB RAM.
• DSP / FPU onboard.
• SD/eMMC - can execute code from SD & eMMC support.
• 3.3v logic.
• SPI, I2C, USB2.0 host and device mode.
• 22 DMA channels.
• 15 ADC channels at up to 1Msps.
• RTC.
• 79 GPIOs with hardware debouncing filters.
• Peripheral Pin Select Crossbar.
• Sleep mode down to 1uA.

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SAMG53 Xplained Pro

and then there’s the SAMG53.

• 48MHz Cortex-M4.
• 512KB program flash.
• 96KB RAM.
• Similar to the ATSAM4S except without SD/eMMC.
• Fewer DMA channels.
• and only 38 GPIOs.
• Sleep mode down to 1uA. Stay tuned for some MickMake products hitting the shelves soon!

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Anet® A6 3D Printer

Then there was the Anet A6 printer that had been sitting around for some time. So, decided to put it together.

Putting it all together was pretty straight-forward. There are two videos that will last an hour. I suggest making it as you watch it.

• Video 1
• Video 2

  

  Alas, no grub screws in one of the steppers.

  

The screen was a little dodgy, but not a huge drama.

And I was little worried about the mains setup on the power supply.

But, I was impressed by the level of documentation this printer had.