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I have a New MKS Gen-L V1.0 3D Printer Controller Board Relacement Ramps 1.4 Mega 2560 R3 and a KINGPRINT 12864 LCD Graphic Smart Display Controller Board with Adapter and Cable for 3D Printer Ramps 1.4 RepRap 3D Printer Mendel Prusa Arduino.

On the second motherboard and still can not get the display to work. Using the newest marlin firmware and Arduino IDE to flash the board. You can hear the fan turn on after power up but no display.

If you want to change some function or add new function and so on, you can refer to MKS TFT source code and build it, update it to MKS TFT, Link as below:

Today I had a bit of success powering up my MKS Robin Nano V3.1 board, until the monitor presented a white screen of death. Like a white flag, I guess; we give up, MKS is saying. So I immediately when to Youtube where MKS has their own channel, and searched for White Screen of Death. MKS"s video, which had so audible narration, told me to edit the config.h file for the Robin Nano 2.0 board / I bought the 3.1 version with the 2.0 TFT screen. So, bottom line, by following MKS"s instruction, and using the Assets File and the .bin file for Robin_nano_3.0 (I think that"s what it was), which I put on a newly formatted SD card, which I put in the card reader on the board, and then powered the board on again, all went well. But that"s not exactly true. The 3.1 files for the MKS Robin_Nano 3.1 include .bin files for the 2009 Stepper Drivers and the BLTouch on them; the files from the 2.0 Robin_nano do not. It looks like I"ll be able to "program" the BLTouch and UART / 2009 stepper drivers on the little monitor, but boy, that"s going to be horrible to do. Anyway, just thought I"d let the Internet know. For $75 plus tax / free shipping, this wasn"t a "bad" buy, but it really makes me wonder what"s going on with MKS? I get it that Covid has make a lot of people"s lives miserable, and worse, but I hope we"ll all get back to a place where we"re willing to at least try to get things right. MKS makes a lot of products that interest me. They"re a big company based on their internet presence. Language is an issue (I"m and english-speaking person) (not that it matters, in my humble opinion), but product support would be appreciated? Thanks, MKS, I hope you"ll answer my question on youtube.

UPDATE: I"ve posted a variety of questions on some of MKS"s Youtube videos. So far, ZERO RESPONSE. I get it. This board is ANCIENT. I paid $75 for it, and a monitor, and 2209 steppers. Let"s just ignore the fact that the WIFi us USE-LESS. There"s ZERO infrastructure to support it. MKS is proving to me that they have left the building, and I"m thinking I should to. I have NO PROBLEM requesting a return on this product. NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER. Will I ever buy another MKS product? Will the world come to a crashing stop? It"s possible, especially if you-know-who gets back to the you-know-what, but even then, no, I will not spend a dime on a company that does not care. Frankly, Amazon should refuse to sell MKS products until MKS gets themselves together.

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MKS Robin Nano V2.0 have many highlights and key upgrades compared to the MKS Robin Nano V1.2. It"s firmware is based on marlin 2.x,support uart/spi drive mode,support TFT35/12864 with box header connector,with onboard 4k EEPROM...and so on.

Robin series motherboards adopt 32-bit ARM chips, support TFT touch screens of various sizes (2.4 / 2.8 / 3.2 / 3.5 / 4.3).Can achieve a variety of functions, such as breakpoint recovery, filament detection, Auto-off function, wifi transmission and other functions. The hardware has been open sourced, supporting makerbase’s independently developed firmware and marlin 2.0 open source firmware. Based on customer needs. Innovate our products.

Compared with FDM technology, LCD SLA technology is favored by the market due to an order of magnitude improvement in accuracy, but the market coverage rate is far inferior to FDM technology. Of course, there are various factors such as high cost, few solutions, and consumable limitations. To this end, MKS independently developed the MKS DLP motherboard and its supporting software to advance the development of LCD SLA 3D printing in terms of cost and solution.

Compared with FDM technology, LCD SLA technology is favored by the market due to an order of magnitude improvement in accuracy, but the market coverage rate is far inferior to FDM technology. Of course, there are various factors such as high cost, few solutions, and consumable limitations. To this end, MKS independently developed the MKS DLP motherboard and its supporting software to advance the development of LCD SLA 3D printing in terms of cost and solution.

Makerbase has always introduced high-performance products in the field of motors and motor drives. For example, those that focus on heavy currents, focus on ultra-quiet, cost-effectiveness, anti-lost steps. Always innovating and improving to launch more high-quality products.

Since I started to “play” in the world of the 3D printers, about 4 years ago, I have always worked with electronics from MakerBase company. There has only been one exception, in the first printer that I bought and that introduced me fully to this world.

This printer mounted a proprietary board “Made in Spain”. In the rest of the machines that I have designed and assembled, I opted directly for electronics of this brand.

The quality of the board and soldering convinced me, the distribution of the components, the support for 5 motors, 3 available 5-volt outputs and of course, the “infinite memory” of it were strong points in its favor.

However, these boards are based on 8bit and as many of you know, the electronics are moving to new 32 bit architectures. So since MakerBase is a brand that builds my confidence, I’ve decided to try the recent MKS Robin Nano v1.2 on one of my machines. And as I usually do in 3DWork.io, share here my experience when working with it.

When I opened the package that I received these days ago I found an electronic board much more compact than the 8-bit ones of yesteryear. Certainly now almost all the electronics that are manufactured are reduced to the minimum possible, that is clear, but for me that I come from the 8 bits it did not stop surprising me.

In a first visual inspection you can see that they have removed 2 of the 6 connectors for the endstops (or limit switches) that usually mount all the boards. Specifically, the X + and Y + connectors. Something that seems perfect to me, since I usually use 3 of the 6 that my electronics have. And honestly, I think with having an extra free enough.

They have also vertically separated the thermistor from the heatbed (printing surface) with respect to the normal thermistors (E0 and E1), which I appreciate since you do not have to remember which one is each when it comes to plug the different cables (as in previous boards).

In addition, as it has been quite common in other boards such as SKRs, they have added specific connectors for BLTouch / 3DTouch. This greatly facilitates the installation of these servo leveling sensors. And if you need help with its configuration and modification in the Marlin firmware, you can always consult our article Install and configure BLTouch / 3DTouch in Marlin 2.0.x

Finally highlight the possibility of installing a Wifi module based on ESP12-S, something that also begins to be indispensable in this type of 32-bit electronics. Otherwise, it has the rest of the components and common sockets for this type of boards that support dual extrusion (E0 and E1).

One of the aspects that has most excited me about these boards is the latest firmware update that MakerBase has made available to its users. In previous TFT touch screens (TFT28, TFT32, etc.) the possibility of configuration and control on your machine was quite limited.

Certainly, you could add commands to the TFT display, in its configuration file for that purpose, but it was still a patch, with a command limit, and very little flexibility.

It seems that MakerBase has taken a step forward with this new update v2.0.0, which adds innumerable options for managing your printer. Now you can access countless parameters, which you could only access before by modifying and compiling Marlin.

If you are a restless Maker like me you can always install the official firmware on your MKS Robin Nano. For some time now, Marlin has officially supported this type of TFT screen, as you will know if you usually make compilations.

These new TFT35 screens have a resolution of 480×320 pixels that does not get along very well with the Marlin firmware (for now). I have made compilations with Visual Studio Code and then uploaded the firmware via SDCard and the initial result was blank screenshots.

In this video you can see how to install Marlin 2.x on an MKS Robin board without any problem. Korbinian Heel, an internet blogger, has made them work and has published all the information about it in an interesting article that you can visit at this link.

What advantages can this bring us over the official MakerBase firmware? Well, it is very simple, having any available Marlin function at the same time that a new firmware is released, without having to wait for any kind of update from the manufacturer, is that not enough?

In the following days, and if time permits, I would like to prepare a complete article in 3DWork.io on how to compile this type of firmwares for Robin Nano 32-bit boards. And of course, how to upload them to our electronics, since it gives for a complete article. If you are interested, do not hesitate to visit us periodically