It’s been a week or so that I installed. the SKR in my MK3S. I’ve done a few things since then. Chris Warkocki the person who started this project has been constantly updating his firmware over at his Github. I’ve been using his firmware as a foundation for my own. Not really adding too many different things or changing. much other than adding. a few features he hasn’t enabled yet although it will be coming down the pipes as he’s talked about them.

This is a fairly short update, I just wanted. to make mention that I am now able to print constantly and without too many issues. I get a bit of warping on the bed but nothing too crazy, most of my prints have been coming out well and I’ve not had a chance to do anything huge to compare quality of the SKR vs Einsy. At the moment I’m just putting the printer through the paces to see if I notice anything drastically different in terms of quality or performance.

Here are two mods I’ve done on the MK3S since I’ve changed the board out for an SKR v1.4:

Added Neopixels

Added the BTT TFT35 V3.0 (I’ll do a post later)

Here’s a fairly short write up of what I did to. get the Neopixels working:

Neopixels

I did some research on what kind of LEDs I needed to get this going. I found out that the SKR v1.4 supported Neopixels which allow you to individually control each LED diode. The Neopixels that I bought are here: ALITOVE 16.4FT 300 Pixels WS2812B. Any LEDs that are WS2812B will do, but I decided to go with these ones since there were 30 LEDs per meter and I planned on using these as the main light source.

At first I thought I was going to need to down step the pins on the board to get the Neopixels working but discovered that the SKR V1.4 actually has dedicated pins and it supplied 5V, so no step down required. I also soldered a 1000uF capacitor and a 330 Omh resistor, this is to help with stabilize the power and signal lines on the Neopixels. Some say these are optional, but from practice it seems like this helped with making the Neopixels light properly. Makers Mashup’s video talks about this.