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Rolling your own Marlin build

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So I wanted to have a crack at rolling my own firmware build for my Ender 3 V2.  Marlin is pretty awesome - and setup in a way that makes it pretty user friendly.  I would start with this video from Teaching Tech.  He goes through how to build your own firmware - which I 100% used as a base.  I did a few things slightly differently and probably will continue to tweak as I go.  If you just use his video and follow it you will absolutely end up with a useable firmware.  This post is as much for me as anyone else that might stumble across it - on what options I used.   So start by making sure you have  git and Visual Studio Code installed and up to date.  Open code and install the PlatformIO IDE extension: I then checked out the Marlin code and switched to the bugfix-2.0.x branch that Teaching Tech suggests in his video: git clone https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin.git git checkout bugfix-2.0.x You could skip this and just downloa...