MKS Robin is a powerful 32-bit 3D printer control board with STM32F103ZET6 . Support Marlin2.0. Support MKS Robin TFT24/28/32... Screens. The motherboard integrates 5 AXIS interface, hot bed, 2 heating heads, 3 NTC100K, 2 MAX31855.Support MKS Robin WIFI for cloud printing.Supports firmware update by SD card…
First, I want to say that I'm quite keen on your hardware, so you can understand why I'm disappointed and how I hope that I'm mistaken.
So : I bought a brand new Robin from a friend who actually never used it. I understood why.
First absolutely no doc, and on top of that as it's closed source (I'll come back to the open/closed source aspect a little later), no way can I dig into the src to understand what goes wrong.
Bugs. Features are wayyyyy minimal. Leveling ? No probe offset, no mesh, more points algo hits the wall past endstops... Max power for bed ? Damn you're dreaming. NC endstops, ok, but for X you have to set it to NO in the config... And wait what... M503 is missing. List goes on (and on and on). OK ! Is thermal runaway protection and other securities even implemented ? How can I know ? Just makes me wonder if anyone actually uses a Robin.
Now opensource : I don't mind an attempt to do a closed source, I don't mind selling opensource stuff. But : Displaying the reprap logo at startup of a closed source thing is already strange. The "PID Autotune finished ! Place the Kp, Ki and Kd constants in the Configuration.h or EEPROM" message seems oddly familiar to my eyes too.
Now don't hear me wrong : the hardware is neat, idea is great and I happily used several of your boards.
But, why ? How ?
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First, I want to say that I'm quite keen on your hardware, so you can understand why I'm disappointed and how I hope that I'm mistaken.
So : I bought a brand new Robin from a friend who actually never used it. I understood why. First absolutely no doc, and on top of that as it's closed source (I'll come back to the open/closed source aspect a little later), no way can I dig into the src to understand what goes wrong.
Bugs. Features are wayyyyy minimal. Leveling ? No probe offset, no mesh, more points algo hits the wall past endstops... Max power for bed ? Damn you're dreaming. NC endstops, ok, but for X you have to set it to NO in the config... And wait what... M503 is missing. List goes on (and on and on). OK ! Is thermal runaway protection and other securities even implemented ? How can I know ? Just makes me wonder if anyone actually uses a Robin.
Now opensource : I don't mind an attempt to do a closed source, I don't mind selling opensource stuff. But : Displaying the reprap logo at startup of a closed source thing is already strange. The "PID Autotune finished ! Place the Kp, Ki and Kd constants in the Configuration.h or EEPROM" message seems oddly familiar to my eyes too.
Now don't hear me wrong : the hardware is neat, idea is great and I happily used several of your boards. But, why ? How ?