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Skipper Flipper

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An experimental ESP32 pseudo Klipper port. (Repository and package name: esp-printhost .)

GPL-3.0 · Linux (Mint / Ubuntu) · C++17 core + Python tools · Project page

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0, see LICENSE . No warranty and no liability: this is provided as is. You use it at your own risk, on your own hardware, and the author is not responsible for damage to boards, printers or anything else.

What this is

An idea for reviving old, donated 3D printers: a cheap ESP32-S3 becomes the "brain" (WiFi, web UI, text config, motion planning) and the printer's original board becomes a simple slave running a modified Klipper MCU firmware. The full plan is in docs/DESIGN.md .

Target hardware: ESP32-S3 only for the host ("master"). Status: mostly working, needs tuning and proper testing.…

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