I’m wanting to heavily mod my 3D45. I basically want to use a raspberry pi to run it, but just repurpose the existing hardware. I am new to this area of 3d printing, and would love some suggestions to get started. I know of octoprint, but does it do all of the reading gcode?
If you’re going to controll your board with another board, you might want to also look at Klipper. If you decide to go this route, the Voron documentation has pretty good setup instructions, but obviously you’ll have to work out the specifics for your build. I personally really like what you can do with Klipper (macros, tuning, etc) and find it fairly straightforward.
If you go Klipper, the PI will parse the g-code, and apply things like pressure advance and resonance compensation, before sending instructions directly to your printer board.
Klipper + mainsail is truly great.
Never heard of this printer brand, but if it turns out that its mainboard isn’t compatible with what you’re trying to do then it might be an option to replace it with a cheap stepper driver board from AliExpress. You wouldn’t need anything fancy if you’re running Klipper on your RPi
This post has a little bit of age now, have you taken the Klipper pill yet?
Yup! Just got it installed on my pi. Still gotta wire it in. Any documentation to help? I haven’t found out which controller I have yet.