Ender 5 Plus + Klipper: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:48, 10 October 2020

Purpose

I would like to unleash the power of my Ender 5 Plus(here after referenced as E5+) by removing the "bottleneck" that the weak mainboard processing power have. Klipper supposedly should do just this by moving all data processing from the E5+ mainboard on to the Raspberry Pi 4 i got connected already anyway.

First try/step will be a combo of Klipper and OctoPrint.

Later i might try the Klipper + Moonraker + MainSail combo.

Reference pages

Klipper is a 3d-Printer firmware. It combines the power of a general purpose computer with one or more micro-controllers.
OctoPrint provides a snappy web interface for controlling consumer 3D printers.
Moonraker is a Python 3 based web server that exposes APIs with which client applications may use to interact with Klipper.
Mainsail lightweight & responsive web interface for the Klipper 3D printer firmware.

Klipper + OctoPrint combo

An installation guide is avilable on the Klipper website. I will follow that now.

make menuconfig will ask for microcontroller - the E5+ uses atmega2560. See printer-creality-ender5plus-2019.cfg

Be sure to continue to Config_checks BEFORE you try to print!!

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 ''make menuconfig'' will ask for microcontroller - the E5+ uses atmega2560. See [https://github.com/KevinOConnor/klipper/blob/master/config/printer-creality-ender5plus-2019.cfg printer-creality-ender5plus-2019.cfg]
   Be sure to continue to [https://www.klipper3d.org/Config_checks.html Config_checks] BEFORE you try to print!!
+* https://www.klipper3d.org/Manual_Level.html
+* https://www.klipper3d.org/Probe_Calibrate.html
+* https://www.klipper3d.org/Bed_Level.html