Klipper 3d Printer Firmware - What is it? Why do I want it? 

I've just started researching klipper and so far I've been blown away by what it offers with the inexpensive readily available hardware. Cool stuff, thanks for the broad explanation.

Great video! Switched my printer over to klipper after your ender livestream. Editing config on the fly is imo the greatest feature. I've spent hours recompiling marlin to get thing right, mainsail and klipper make this a breeze!

Okay, the adding a second board seamlessly by merely connecting a usb cable and extending functionality is what did it for me, that is cool. I've always wanted to add a diy MMU to my ender 3 and I have my 8 bit board left over, that's genius.

Thanks! Everything is quite clear. I plan to install klipper on a duet 2 diy system, and I'll have to go through your 4 hours video about that. I never had the nerves to watch it till the end...

That was a great explanation on Klipper! I wish I would have seen this a few months ago when I first started dabbling with klipper! Now all of my printers will have it except my prusa mini,

Perfect timing. I I've been hearing more and more about klipper but seemed sort of arcane to me. This is a pretty much perfect rundown for those of us who are keen to give it a go but didn't know where to start. Thanks a lot!

Fantastic delivery of information. Your channel was sent to me to learn about this and I am now very curious about how I can incorporate this into my print farm. Thank you for taking the time. I'm going to check out more of your videos.

Thanks for the Klipper overview. I am in process of upgrading my old FT-5 to CoreXY and a SKR Pro 1.1 board. I was actively toying if this was the right time to look into something other than Marlin for firmware, and Klipper was top of my list to play with.

Thanks for pointer to multi-MCU ! Pulled out my old creality 1.1.4 original board, added a 2nd z-stepper and now have auto x-gantry leveling! Awesome!

Thank you for sharing! Grateful you shared this before i started going down the octoprint route. The amount of money savings with running zeros, 8/32 bit boards become better, and you can combine boards if needed. I need to learn some more about the possibilities using multiple boards.

Great information. thanks a lot. I have used marlin a lot and am now building my first Voron 2.4V2. Lots to learn and lots to work out.

Hi, firstly I'm loving the live streams and your tuition videos. They are awesome. I am very new to Klipper and in the process of building my first Voron (Switchwire). I don't know if this has already been done but would really appreciate a video on creating the Klipper printer.cfg from scratch. All of the videos so far seem to presume you already have a printer config to reuse or upload... Keep up the great content. 👍🏻👍🏻

Definitely keen to see a video on the Ender3 V2! I’ve not had mine for long but looking at raspberry pi and I think Klipper would be perfect to run on that!

Great explanation - Now I have to get a Raspi. Thanks to bringt this to our attention. Greetings from Munich, Tom.

We need more klipper RU-vid videos. Great video. Thanks.

A video on getting klipper to drive an E3V2 and coexist with octoprint is exactly what I need 🥰

This was VERY helpful and have been looking for a high-level explanation.

Excellent breakdown of klipper/firmware systems.

👍👍😎👍👍 - I would have never considered using Klipper ......... until I saw your livestream last weekend and now watching this video. Once I have the nerve to take am acceptably working printer offline, I'm going to give this a go. THANK YOU for pushing me out of my ignorant comfort zone. 🤣😃

Great overview and introduction to your other Klipper videos

I picked up a new Pi Zero 2W just for this purpose! Looking forward to playing with it! Thanks for the video!

I found many answers to my all concerns. Thank you for this clarifying video.

Very thorough video, thanks. Been using marlin for years but want to dive into corexy this helped me know what to expect

Nice video, and now a Tutorial how config/tune a printer with Klipper😁👍 best channel for 3d Printing😏

Brilliantly explained; I'm not super into 3d printing or anything, but I do have two older machines that would benefit from a leg-up in terms of their speed and configurability. I always mistakenly thought Klipper needed some custom hardware, like a special shield for the Pi so that it could directly control the steppers; I didn't realise that it would still use the original controller, but as a dumb I/O processor, that's pretty neat, and you helped clarify that. Thanks!

It's not an option for me but I like your way of explaining, it's perfect, mostly youtubers fails in this discipline ...

Snaz' intro to this FW. Impressed with some of the features. :D

Klipper is GREAT, one of very few things related to 3d printing that I've been really excited about . In fact, in my opinion, it is one of the best thing that happen to 3d printing community, simple idea but brilliant. Do all the calculations by sbc and you all your control board is doing is executing gcode received by sbc. All my printers have 8bit controller boards, after I replaced marlin with klipper, wow, they print so much faster and better now, and you have so much more control over your hardware. Lately, I've been working on designing tool changer (similar to e3d, jubilee), people think they need better board like duet to handle all those extra motors, fans, and sensors, nop, klipper can drive several controllers at the same time, if you need to control extra motors/fans just add another cheap controller, even the most expensive boards like duet can not match what can be done with klipper, or perhaps they don't want to, if you need extra IO buy extension board, if that is still not enough buy top of the line board for $$$, and extension board as well, don't know. Personally I find marlin very limited,confusing and a lot of time is wasted recompiling, RepRamFirmware is OK but I say klipper is a way to go, i love it,

Great video man. Sending this to all of my friends that I'm trying to convince to switch over to Klipper ;)

Wow! That video is awesome! Thanks a lot for all the explanations! Very well done! You explain extremely well!

Great video! What I like most about Klipper is the pressure advance, it works so much better than Marlin. Also, Marlin has a bug with the BLTouch clones on SKR1.3, Klipper doesn't!

Im stoked i discovered your channel!

Thanks for this nice overview. I've heard a lot about it before, but never bothered to follow up on the topic, i was just running Stock-FW and Marlin for now. Guess i have to think about what printers i want to upgrade next and if Klipper might be the way forward.

Thank you 🙏🏾 lol this was best explanation I’ve watched so far... much appreciated!

Great explanation. I like your more casual video formats more, though. But I understand that you have to make more 'professional' videos like this for the usual viewer. Anyhow, you are my favorite youtuber to watch, while working on my printer ;)

Klipper also runs quite well on old pc hardware. One advantage of using it is you can get stupid cheap pcs for less than what you can for a proper raspberry pi setup. You can also run multiple printers off one machine and you could also set it up to do your slicing. Kiauh installer is a really nice tool to use as well, this is what I use to install on the different computer types.

Such a great video, a lot of informations there, love that :) anyways im gonna install Klipper this weekend, got some configurations premade, i was reading a lot about Klipper, currently ive got latest Marlin firmware on my printer, works great and ive got Raspberry Pi 4 which opened my another door :)

Thank you for making the effort of making this helpful video

I really like how detailed you are at going over all the options and benefits of klipper You may want to look into scholar's cradles. Using such gestures while talking can aid in conveying information better and make it easier for your audience to follow along

Thank you this answered a lot of my questions!!

Very clear, articulate explanations.

Awesome content! Thanks for your knowledge sharing! Great stuff!

As always, you rock man!

Nero, I tuned into your livestream last Saturday, and I am super excited for all the things you're planning on doing with this channel. I think you're going to explode if you keep it up with this type of clear, informative content because I think there currently is a need for a 3D printing channel that goes beyond consumer printer reviews and intermediate-level upgrades. As of now, I think the biggest channel that fits that description is Tom Sanladerer (whom I really enjoy, don't get me wrong), and it goes down from there in terms of skill level with most of the big channels. Which is fine; there needs to be entry-level content for people to get involved with 3D printing in the first place. For however long I've been 3D printing, I saw my Prusa as the pinnacle of prosumer-level print quality. Your Voron/Klipper videos have shown me how much untapped potential there is, even with sub-$1k hardware (hell, even sub-$500 hardware with the V0). The Prusa, while still a great printer, suffers from unavoidable artifacts such as the Benchy hull line and vertical ringing, but all it would take to fix these things is a Raspberry Pi and Klipper, which is crazy to think about. You probably don't have much reason to go out and buy a Prusa, but a really clear and detailed guide for getting Klipper working on a MK3S would likely make big waves in the Prusa community. Many people on the Prusa forums seem to be in denial that there even are software limitations with the stock MK3S, but maybe a good video and a lot of community experimentation could lead to officially-supported Klipper on the MK3S. That would certainly have a watershed of effects on the whole market. Maybe that's overly dramatic, but I sincerely think more people need to see what's possible with more processing power on cheap printers. Your Klipper Ender already blew my mind, and you can only go up from there. One critique though, I think you should shut off those lights in the window before filming. Very distracting to see bright blue lights shining directly into the camera!

I'd appreciate a Klipper to Ender 3 V2 installation video. Perhaps a bit more condensed than the 4 hour live stream :)

I've returned to Klipper after seeing your video on input shaping. It improved a lot since I last tried it. The ease of configuration compared to Marlin is worth it alone. PS There is a good klipper plugin for Octoprint.

Great video - really enjoyed it, great flow sir!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge! For me it would help me out a ton if you could do the klipper installation for the Ender. Although if I invest more time I could probably get it done myself but the threshold is too high for me at this moment:)

Thanks for this amazing summary video!

Great breakdown! Please do an install video, preferably with an Anycubic Mega/S printer :P Subscribed!

Thanks. This was really informative.

Pressure advance & Input shaper. Nuf said.👍

Great content! Keep it up man!

You had me until it came to touch screen support! Klipper sounds excellent, looking forward to seeing more touch screen support in the future.

Good stuff Nero

I can't get rid of ringing with marlin, I may give klipper a try :)

Love this style of video

Despite the fact that the only G code I care about is from snoop dogg. I subscribed because you seem like a really legit youtuber. Gj

Excellent explanation.

excellent explanation and video !!! 👍👍👍

Just such a good video. Thank you SOOOOO much!

Hello, you have very good channel. I'm gonna transform my Ender 3 into Switchwire, and then someday build Voron Trident, you channel is very helpful. Subscribed.

A great video, thank you very much. Kindled my interest in Klipper that has really only been on the periphery of my awareness and attention. I would like to add a +1 vote for you to do a video on installing Klipper to an Ender printer.

Purrrrrrfect timing!

I wonder if anyone has done a detailed comparison of finished prints using the same print settings on the same hardware (aside from the control board setup) between Klipper, Marlin, Marlin+Octoprint, and perhaps RepRap. It would be great to see if there's any difference.

that apron is baller

Cant wait to have duet 6HC and 3HC compatibility ! (Or just someone to write a base config files to start from..)

Just cuz I keep hearing about it I think I'm gonna try!

It runs very well on May old tvbox

Great vid. But it would be even better if you showed how web UI looks like, and how the LCD panel works and looks like after the update.

I've been running klipper for a while but always good to see another overview to make sure I'm up to date on the high level support/ features. What kind of step rates are you running with your printers? I've got a SKR 1.4 Turbo and raspberry pi 3b and ran into step rate issues trying to run 128 for ext and 64 for 4 other independent steppers/ stepper driver. Also diamond hands baby.

Okay this is a lot of into and well presented, but I've got a couple of questions. 1. Can one raspberry pi run multiple printers? 2. If it can, what are the limits? For example, I have a pi 3b, and I've been hoping to jump into using it to remotely run my printers, but it really challenges my comfort zone (I am NOT a tech person yet) 3. How secure is it? I tried octoprint and it worked great, but I've been told that it's essentially open access to my network without some plugins. When I installed the plugins it stopped working, and I haven't reflashed it. Thank you for taking the time to put this video together.

Hey nero, are you plqnning on doing a voron legacy build. Would love to see a video on it.

Would love to hear how to connect a dedicated interface. Can I use a second raspberry pi with a touch screen?

Smooth PA and input shaping is a pretty sweet deal. Enough to warrant a switch really but what's the status on the arc support?

Thank you tremendously for this video and the wisdom you've shared. I want to build a Voron 2.4, and already own a R-Pi 3B, SKR 1.3, 1.4 Turbo and Pro 1.2, and because of the info you shared at 5:50, I won't need to also buy an Octopus. My question tho is do I also need to install Klipper on the slave MCUs?

I'm depressed and facing some time at home ... I may try klipper on my raspis and ender 3. Going to be dual extrusion soon

Simping for klipper!

hi how long are the wires from the extruder motor to the m/board thank you

This sounds like a inovative idea, having an atmega controller, this is very tempting. Two remarks: You are mistaken, when saying the raw commands need less bandwidth than the g-code, also it's much more timing sensitive, thus it has rather high demands on the communication interface. Also the native UART of an SBC provides much better latency than an uart with the whole USB communication overhead. Bandwidth itself of course is not a problem, but latency can be.

pls pls make an installation tutorial with fluidd for the ender 3 with pressure advance and imput shaper

Awesome explaination! You earned a sub 😊

Due to the current unobtainium status of RPi boards (it's just starting to let up now), I've obtained a used HP T520 thin client to use for clipper. It has 4GB of ram and 16GB of SSD (both can be upgraded via module swap), along with an AMD embedded 64 bit X86 cpu (dual core 1.2-1.4ghz). About the same as recent Rpi models.

I would love to see clipper on the end of three installed completely though so I can do it myself 👍🏼

Would you recomend installing klipper on a ender 6 with rasberry pi 4

this is all fantastic. I would like to begin the transition. I have many printers. Can you recommend a video to get started. Ender 3 or cr10 or sovol sv01. something like that. Thanks

Can you recommend an interface board that would work with a Printrbot and a RPi?

What Pi would I need to support a octoprint with a camera an those fancy timelapses?

Like that smash button or hit that like button? I'm probably one of the few to notice when you change it. Non the less, great video fellow Canadian !

Great video. Some points I'd like to make: For any mainboard running an LPC17xx, you can flash Arksine's DFU Bootloader which allows you to bypass the whole moving the .bin off the SD card and onto the mainboard - you can flash Klipper as normal via the SSH terminal. One limitation of Klipper that I (and others) have had issues with is the ability to set the Z offset. Traditionally in Marlin, you are able to tune your Z offset while the print is running or in the case of Prusas, run a dedicated script which will trace a line where you can live adjust your Z offset with the knob. Klipper has no such feature. You are able to go to the tune menu to raise/lower the nozzle to adjust your Z offset during a print however this change only applies on the next GCode command, not in realtime as you turn the knob on your display like Marlin does. In turn, this makes tuning the Z offset a bit cumbersome and an aspect of Marlin I do miss.

thanks for the video, wonder if it works on a prusa mk3

How do I configure custom thermistor tables?

What is the best place for the Raspberry Pi board if I want to use it with one printer? Should I install it inside the printer base (ender 3s1)? Or is it better to make a separate case for it and put it somewhere on the printer side like the printer's screen? Does the Pi need cooling? I can see lots of manuals on installing software but cannot see recommended scheme of hardware installation.

I'm really interested in using Klipper but having a hard time finding the proper setting for a stock ender 3 pro with BL Touch. Any help in that

Excellent, thanks!

I realize this might be off topic but I'm trying to figure out how to configure CW2 extruder in Klipper any help would be appreciated

Can you use this to make your printer have multiple extruders for multi color prints?

It is incredible how slow the 8bit boards are.

Are there any quality improvements when using klipper

I have a ender3v2 and got a ender3 s1 on the way. want to add klipper to get some speed on printing. Raspberry Pi are hard to find at fair price. Any suggestions?