My custom Anet AM8

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I'm finally collecting all the sources that went into my customized Anet AM8. I've been running a RAMPS 1.4 board with Marlin 1.1.8/9 for a year. All printed parts were printed on this machine. Most before upgrading to the AM8 frame. I'm very happy with the print quality I'm getting. I've been playing with printing tabletop miniatures. The picture of two minis represent my best results so far. The only thing I'm unhappy with right now is some issues with the DuPont connectors coming loose from the RAMPS board. But, I'm planning to re-work all my wiring soon anyway. The nozzle-cleaning brush usually pushes the cooling ring slightly out of alignment, but I'm planning to redo my entire print-head soon anyway. For most things, the stock duct works fine and doesn't have this problem. I've been focusing on printing tiny, detailed items though, so I want the better cooling right now. Planned upgrades for the future: * Bowden with a E3D-v6 clone hotend. * An external RAMPS enclosure with cleaner wiring. I'm looking at using ribbon cable to bring all the signal wires to the frame and some sort of quick-change head system... * A quick-change head system. I'd like to be able to be able to swap out heads easily to allow me to quickly switch between, dual-head, very small nozzle and direct drive. * Dual extrusion with Chimera and Cyclops clones. I've got both on hand. * A direct-drive head specifically focused on flexible filament. Almost all parts are from the things listed in Remixed Sources. I may have tweaked an STL here or there, but I don't remember. I'm switching between the two fan designs listed in the remix sources. Both work well, but they have slightly different clearances and one or the other fits better every time I adjust the hotend/nozzle for whatever reason. The only parts I designed were the two for mounting the PSU. I'm using some nameless 30A PSU from Amazon and the dimensions are taken from it. It seems to be fairly close to the S-320 datasheets I've found online. The endcap was inspired by various A8 PSU covers I've looked at. It takes a XT60E-M connector that leads to the printer and C14 power connector/switch/fuse. The printer is driven from an OctoPi that I can access from anywhere to check on prints. I've also got a Sonoff Basic in the power-supply line so I can kill power remotely if needed.