Comment on My creality 4.2.7 board just crapped out. Suggestions for an upgrade?
yokonzo@lemmy.world 6 months agoThis was a very confusing comment I’ll be honest, I wasn’t talking about bed levelling or surface quality my man. My board is no longer able to connect to octoprint through USB so I’m looking to upgrade it
VinS@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Hahahaha, sorry about that.
The board you chose will limit what you can do due to memory space limitations or raw power.
The original ender 5 board didn’t had enough memory to activate auto bed leveling without removing other things.
In this world we have 3 firmware usable I know of:
The board you choose will limit the firmware you will use that will limit what you can do with it.
Take a look to what resonance compensation is by example. I’m not sure it’s available on Marlin due to lack of raw power of the boards.
But with kipper firmware offloaded to the pi, with a compatible board, you can unlock resonance compensation that gives a way better finish to your prints and easier config changes like Reprap (duet3d)
As you can see it’s a rabbit hole 😁
yokonzo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ah okay I see where the confusion was, this is good info
paf@jlai.lu 6 months ago
Not OP but have a question if you don’t mind as I just swapped to Klipper and everything isn’t clear yet.
When you say “due to lack of power…” isn’t klipper doing all the work meaning that board don’t need to process anything and is basically in a “reader” state?
VinS@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Hi there Paf,
You are totally right, when using klipper, the board doesn’t do any processing anymore. It becomes dumb and transfert the input signals to the pi and output signals to the motors etc…
A board not powerful enough for anything can do evrything under klipper if compatible. (some cpu was not compatible last time I checked 2 years ago, it may have changed). The awesome thing with klipper is that it can be compatible with the original motherboard and you can add resonance compensation just by plugging a pi. But that’s not OP problem as he needs a new board.
For me, Klipper had been a great discovery and I can’t think to go back simply due to the easy way of changing the config files compared to recompiling everything in Marlin.