The ender 5 pro is a decent printer to begin with these were just tweaks that I’ve made to address things that annoyed me… so far here’s what I’ve upgraded:
Purchased: * Creality Glass Bed(not 100% necessary, but it’s a noce surface to print on) * BLTouch * ENOMAKER Near Direct Drive Extruder Conversion (moves the stock extruder above the hotend, allowing you to almost remove retractions)
Printed: * Bed Strain Relief Bracket * Control box cable protector * X Axis End Stop Switch Bracket This was needed because the direct drive kit shifted the hotend a little bit, so I needed to move the switch. * Dry Box (more of an accessory, but my printer is in the garage and the filament was not having a good time with the humidity)
Planned: * SKR 1.4 Turbo with Stepper Drivers (I want to enable cool things in Marlin but I can’t, because the stock board is out of room, plus 2209 drivers… this will be here tomorrow) * Bed Super Struts due to the cantilever design of the bed, it can wobble and sag, this is supposed to help… I failed a number of times trying to print it, but plan to revisit soon…) * Cable Management (haven’t decided on a solution yet…) the only included cable management is a few zip ties.
Other: * Marlin 2.0 (BugFix) firmware to allow the BLTouch, I couldn’t figure out the Creality version…
I’ve also purchased various hardware components (screws, nuts, t-nuts, Bowden tubes, nozzles, etc) and reused a raspberry pi 4 running octoprint as a controller (it’s pretty amazing lol) and some tools that I didn’t have handy (calipers, metal ruler with MM, tap and die set). In honesty, I’d be fine with out a lot of it but it’s given me something to do lol. My personal advice… don’t even bother if you don’t add a BLTouch… my bed was/is a little bit warped, the BLTouch and upgraded firmware helps adjust that.
Here is the full kit: https://www.amazon.com/Creality-Upgraded-BLTouch-Leveling-Accessories/dp/B07WK3T7S7/ref=sr_1_9?crid=2E1J5MPSM97NF&dchild=1&keywords=bl+touch&qid=1597888359&sprefix=Bl+t%2Caps%2C209&sr=8-9
The Teaching Tech video linked above is great. Suggest you also get what you need to reflash the bootloader (Teaching Tech video). It is common to overwrite the bootloader during the firmware upgrade given the limited space on the 8-bit board, so the Arduino Uno board would come handy to reflash the bootloader if necessary.