Firmware&OS

1. Firmware

1.1 Rev 1.0

We use Cheetah v1.2 motherboard (github) for our Voron-0 rev1.0 kit. And we use Klipper firmware. You can get the pre-build firmwares and printer.cfg files in folder rev1.0 next to this README file. In the kit you should find an sdcard with octopi system flashed. After you build your Voron 0.1 machine, you can insert it to the raspberrypi and power up the machine, the machine should work. Remember to connect ethernet cable to raspberrypi and connect Cheetah board to raspberrypi with USB cable.

1.1.1 Klipper compile

We use the following make menuconfig below to compile Klipper. You can check more firmware build information in our Cheetah board github page here.

1.1.2 How to flash

Well, i don't recommend you to use our pre-build firmwares as klipper firmware always update. I recommend you to compile klipper yours, follow it here. The prebuild firmwares below just for beginners.

You should power up Cheetah board with 12v/24v power supply first.

klipper.bin

If you use our pre-build klipper.bin firmware, you can flash the firmware with the command below. This command is also for those who compile klipper yourself, but you need to cd ~/klpper/out first. Remember to connect RaspberryPi with usb cable to Cheetah.

stm32flash -w klipper.bin -v -i rts,-dtr,dtr /dev/ttyUSB0

klipper.hex

This is our pre-build firmware in hex format, you can flash it in windows system.

You can follow the following steps to upload the bootloader.

• Download the flash software in our github https://github.com/FYSETC/STM32Flasher
• Power the board with power supply and connect the board to your PC with USB cable
• Double the click "FlyMcu.exe" software

• Select Reset@DTR low(<-3v),ISP @RTS High
• Click "Port" to select the port of your USB
• Select Bootloader-STM32F103.hex in the Code File For Online ISP: edit box. There is bootloader file named Bootloader-STM32F103.hex beside this README file.
• At last, click Start ISP(p) button to upload the firmware.

1.1.3 printer.cfg

We provide you an example printer.cfg in folder rev1.0 beside this README file.

1.2 Rev 1.1

We use Cheetah v2.0 motherboard (github) for our Voron-0 rev1.1 kit. And we use Klipper firmware. You can get the pre-build firmwares and printer.cfg files in rev1.1 beside this README file. In the kit you should find an sdcard with octopi system flashed. After you build your Voron 0.1 machine, you can insert it to the raspberrypi and power up the machine, the machine should work. Remember to connect ethernet cable to raspberrypi and connect Cheetah board to raspberrypi with USB cable.

1.2.1 Klipper compile

We use the following make menuconfig below to compile Klipper. You can check more firmware build information in our Cheetah v2 board github page here.

1.2.2 How to flash

Well, i don't recommend you to use our pre-build firmwares as klipper firmware always update. I recommend you to compile klipper yours, follow it here. The prebuild firmwares below just for beginners.

klipper.hex

This is our pre-build firmware in hex format, you can follow the instruction here to flash it.

It is hex file, you don't need to set Start address option when using STM32CubeProgrammer.

1.2.3 printer.cfg

We provide you an example printer.cfg in folder rev1.1 beside this README file.

2. Octopi OS

In the kit, you should find an sdcard pre-flashed Octopi system. We also provide you this Octopi system image for you. If your kit version is rev1.0, then your cheetah board version is 1.2, you can get the responding Octopi system here(1.Dropbox 2.百度云盘 提取码：1357) . If your kit version is rev1.1, then your cheetah board version is 2.0, and you can get the responding Octopi system here(1.Dropbox 2.百度云盘 提取码：YYDS).

2.1 how to flash

Before flash, you need an SD card , minimum requirement of SD card capacity is 8G. Please prepare that first. And then you can use this software here to install. Well that are so many OS flash tool that you can use. And there are a lot of tutorial if you google how to flash os image.

2.2 OctoPi

You can login in Octoprint with the following account and password.

Account: FYSETC
Password: 12345678

OS SSH account and password

Account: pi
Password: raspberry

3. V0_Display

If you want to install V0_Display to the machine, you should update its firmware first. Please follow README in github or gitee.