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i keep thinking about building a new machine to try out klipper, fancy extruders, and so on. i am reluctant to mess with my workhouse prusa.
by joshu 4y ago
i keep thinking about building a new machine to try out klipper, fancy extruders, and so on. i am reluctant to mess with my workhouse prusa.
- bb88 4y agoYeah... I'm not going to do that either. I think what I'll do instead is get a good coreXY printer which runs klipper natively (like the Voron). But I think I really want is a tool changing printer a la the prusa xl. Prusa tends to do a lot of up front engineering that you just don't see. Plus the support I've got from them has been just fantastic.
- joshu 4y agoi have preordered the xl. i just want to build a separate machine for messing with other stuff
- bb88 4y agoCongrats. I'm going to wait for the reviews before I order one, though I expect they'll be spectacular. I feel like with the likes of the Bambu(sp?) X1 and their fancy shmancy lidar sensor, it's only a matter of time before Prusa is going to need to push that into their printers. E.g. the lidar could show width, heighth, and any stringing from the filaments -- ideally making it easier to determine the specs for a new filament.
- Filligree 4y agoThe XL will have official Klipper support (from Prusa) anyway.
- ThatPlayer 4y agoPrusa's firmware has a lot of features that Klipper doesn't support, such as the crash detection and the auto-calibration. It's one of my printer of mine that I have no plans to switch to Klipper on.
- joshu 4y agoyeah, the prusa is too reliable to consider messing with. maybe i could get another used prusa somewhere…