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.