Teknic/Clear Core - Raspberry Pi Desktop Virtual Machine - A 3D Printer Like no Other

General Discussion
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Hello - My Team at D3 labs has constructed a Large Scale 3D Printer (10FT x 8FT x 8FT), and were running into a couple of Config Issues on the Klipper Side - Yet we’re really close, and maybe this forum can push us in the right direction.

This is what we’re doing:

Teknic Example
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Klipper Has Multiple MCU configs
Example and Sample Configs that can be combined to identify our printer.
This is the Board: (Real similar to the Duet and uses Bossac as a Flasher as well)

https://teknic.com/products/io-motion-controller/clcr-4-13/

We constructed our Raspberry Pi on our computer (derbian) - Configruged a generic Printer Profile - Identified the Pin mapping (Could use more help here) - Currently attempting to Flash the Board using

bossac --port=/dev/serial/by-id/usb-teknic__Inc._Clearcore_3XXXXX -b -U -e -w -v -R out/klipper.bin

This results in Sam-BA Operation Failed.

Previously we used the:

Sudo Service Klipper stop
make flash FLASH_DEVICE=/dev/serial/by-id/usb-teknic__Inc._Clearcore_3XXXXX -b -U -e -w -v -R out/klipper.bin
Sudo service Klipper start

And it said error Flash Bossac…

I think were close… Could I get some guidance?

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See attached - A photo of our Print Head

Multi Axis Testing
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Were Using our Server to Host a VM copy of Raspberry Pi to allocate more storage, ram, and Memory.

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Did you managed to put klipper on the ClearCore. I am looking about doing the same. I would like to know how you compiled the firmware and what was your config for the clearcore.

Thank you

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We figured out how to get the clear path motors to work with the Bigtree Octopus / Pro board - but were unuseful in using the actual clear core board (MCU) with klipper. It can be done I belive but requires a series of libraries. Though i still plan on using the Mcu for another task on our printer - Heres are some updated photos

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Thank you for the reply.

After looking at the Clearcore, I kind of came to the same conclusion, it can be done but requires some work.

I am planing to use the ClearPath motor with an SKR3 board.

If you ever manager to get it running, give me a shot, I think the ClearCore will be more robust than a standard board in long term.

You printer looks pretty good ! I am working on something smaller …

Have a great time printing !