anyone ever had a touchscreen that stopped 'touching' ?

[curious aardvark]

I set up the esp 12s with the basic mks firmware.
So I know it works.

the aerial is not good enough to connect to my router, but the esp generates it's own wifi network - it's a clever little chip with a full router built in.

I could connect both the pc and my pocket computer (mine is used for that much much more than as a phone) to it's own network with no problem.

But that's almost all you can do with the stock firmware. It's pretty useless.
There is a custom firmware that apparently adds all the stuff you actually need.
ie: uploading a file via wifi to the sd card. And monitoring temps and starting and stopping prints.

The firmware setup process looked a bit fiddly, so I've yet to try it.
Plus i can't remember what it was called and will need to do a forum search - again lol

Plus all you do is drop the esp firmware on the sd card and it just hoovers it up on printer boot.
I do like that about these boards. No buggering around.

halfway through changeover:

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esp chip

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Ribbon cable clip

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I should really have made it from pla - but alexa's got petg loaded and I couldn't be arsed to change it over.
Plus the petg is a bit more flexible, so more robust for this particular use.
Anyway it worked, and that's 99% of what counts :-)
When you're dealing with something 0.5mm thick, tough is often better than hard lol

If you're wondering about the little 'teeth' at the ends. I didn't leave a big enough gap between the arms and the ribbon press - so had to clip a bit off each side with the side clippers.