March 24, 2024
Big Tree Tech, for hanging things from....
Suddenly reminded why I didn't mind giving my my software career so much.
I installed the new main board for my Ender 3 printer (Big Tree Tech SKR Mini E3 v 3.0, with Microprobe), and it needed firmware installed. However being a Chinese company, the stuff they have at GitHub isn't exactly well documented. I probably flashed the firmware from various versions a dozen times. (Some versions couldn't even read the MicroSD card!).
I've got it working and printing out my phone case. It's nice that it's virtually silent now except for the fans. But it's doing some odd shit too. Like deploying the probe in the middle of the print. I had to unscrew it and move it out of the way before it yanked itself off!
In any case, if I wanted to fix the configuration, I needed to download and install Visual Studio Code, a couple of plug ins, the actual source repository for Marlin (the firmware in almost all printers), run a test compile, download the configuration for the board I'm actually using, try to compile that.... notice the word Try.
This is the shit I hate, trying to track down compiler errors, I don't even know what's significant, and there was something about two different libraries with the same name, a message to pick one, and no ability to do so before it went flying on. Then a list of other errors, and suddenly it's downloading Python, which still doesn't help.
Drilling holes in airplanes is so much simpler, even if the management suite makes you want to strangle them.
Posted by: Mauser at
01:07 AM
| Comments (2)
| Add Comment
Post contains 272 words, total size 2 kb.
1
It gets stupider. Apparently the fix is to go to the Git repository for marlin, and redownload the marlin.py file, which gets you to the next batch of errors, when I don't even understand what caused the first ones....
Posted by: Mauser at March 24, 2024 01:31 AM (nk1Z+)
2
Fortunately, the Marlin Bugfix version 2.1.x just came out, and I was able to build it successfully, but not with the probe enabled....
Posted by: Mauser at March 24, 2024 07:01 PM (nk1Z+)
23kb generated in CPU 0.0089, elapsed 0.0627 seconds.
35 queries taking 0.0561 seconds, 198 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
35 queries taking 0.0561 seconds, 198 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
