Thursday, January 10, 2019

How to exit Status: Disconnected and flash firmware for MOD-t Newmatter

The reason MOD-t printer ultility show Disconnected is because it's in DFU mode.
To exit, we can reflash the firmware


1. First, if you just get the printer, we need to install newest software and firmware for it.

https://github.com/tripflex/MOD-t You can find both software and firmware at the link above
I'll use the newest one because the developer said that it will improve the printer speed
https://github.com/tripflex/MOD-t/raw/master/firmware/1.0.0/firmware.dfu

2. After downloading the file, you should rename it to "firmware_modt_override.dfu" and move to C:/

We also need to download flashing tool: https://github.com/tripflex/MOD-t/blob/master/firmware/dfu-util.exe And put that in C:/ directory

3. Before flashing the firmware, we need to put MOD-t into DFU mode

if you use Windows, you might need to install libusb-win32 here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb-win32/
after installing the software, click Install a Device Filter and Choose MOD-t
Run the enter_dfu.py script (it can be found in tripflex repo)


4. Now we can flash the firmware

press: Window + R > type cmd
type: cd C:/
type: dfu-util.exe -d 2b75:0003 -a 0 -s 0x0:leave -D firmware_modt_override.dfu
Done!
You can try your first print now.
Good luck!