3DPrinting

16516 readers

205 users here now

3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.

The r/functionalprint community is now located at: or [email protected]

There are CAD communities available at: [email protected] or [email protected]

Rules

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
No porn (NSFW prints are acceptable but must be marked NSFW)
No Ads / Spamming / Guerrilla Marketing
Do not create links to reddit
If you see an issue please flag it
No guns
No injury gore posts

If you need an easy way to host pictures, https://catbox.moe may be an option. Be ethical about what you post and donate if you are able or use this a lot. It is just an individual hosting content, not a company. The image embedding syntax for Lemmy is ![](URL)

Moderation policy: Light, mostly invisible

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

My creality 4.2.7 board just crapped out. Suggestions for an upgrade? (self.3dprinting)

submitted 11 months ago by yokonzo to c/3dprinting

21 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Running an ender 5 and while my board technically works fine, the USB socket popped off and despite my best efforts the joint holders are too damaged to solder a new one.

I mean maybe it's about time, I had lost the original config file anyways. Does anyone have an idea of what's "good" these days? Not really looking to spend more than $200 if I can help it

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hi there Paf,

You are totally right, lack of power (cpu) on a Marlin firmware. 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.