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An engineer has worked out how to speed up a 3D printer by 1000% with a Nintendo Switch, though 'for most people, a…

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Klipper on a Nintendo Switch Made My Prusa MK3S 10x Faster - YouTube Watch On With the power of Linux installed on a Nintendo Switch, and open-source firmware called Klipper , YouTuber Cocoanix has figured out a way to speed up their 3D printing by 1000%. A model that usually takes 90 minutes to print took a mere eight in their latest video. Klipper is an interesting bit of firmware. Where standard 3D printing firmware like Marlin runs on the 3D printer's microcontroller, Klipper is designed to let you offload that work onto a separate device. As Cocoanix puts it, Marlin is "a bit like asking a calculator to run a spreadsheet". In this case, the Switch can handle the math and G-code processing, sending precise instructions to the printer in real time, and this not only improves speed but quality too.…

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