MakerbaseMKS Robin Nano 32Bit Control Board 3D Printer Parts Based on Marlin2.x Klipper 3.5inch TS35 Touch Screen with 5pcs TMC2209 uart Support WiFi Module (Nano V3)

Great board, easy to install the hardware, including the BL Touch I added to it, hardware wise was pretty much a drop in for my CR10 clone.The hardest thing about this board is setting up the Marlin Firmware, the MKS firmware is 3 years old and is in need of updating it seems, it is setup for a single nozzle but dual extruder, and the filament runout pins you have to adjust to work properly. This is why it is 4 stars instead of 5, they really need to update the firmware, 3 years and there are some annoying minor bugs that are still present, and the videos are out of date. Really a shame because so far the board itself is great, if they fixed the firmware up and their installation videos, this would be an excellent board to work with. Instead, you have to do some digging to figure out what you need to do in the firmware.

theres almost no support , and nothing works as hoped for,. ( even jumper settings would have been nice. visual studio doesnt even explain what to do and still nothing wprks, nothing. This might still be a good board but I find it would be easier to yell at a brick. I get just as much 3d printing done .....dont buy this unless you can communicate with the customer service , is my advice. and it just keeps getting worse.I never got VS code to work, so in my opinion this board(s) is JUNK.

There are tons of issues with this board. I have now spent longer debugging and fighting with configuring this thing than I did designing and building the printer it is supposed to be running.- Can't get the printer to connect over usb serial interface using pronterface or any other software. Can connect via wifi fine, but wifi connection does not have all of the functionality that a wired connection does.- Can't print from usb or sd card. It just wont. It reads the files, runs the first few lines of gcode (heating up and homing), but then parks the nozzle and pauses the print. Pressing resume does nothing. Only way I can get it to print is over wifi with pronterface, but of course the computer and pronterface need to be powered on and connected through the entire print or it will stop.- Support is non-existant- Drivers supplied on github only support win 7 and 8.- Touch screen sucks, cant press buttons close to the edge of the screen without trying 8 times- When enabling manual mesh bed leveling in the firmware, it does not compile any icons for that menu, and therefore the ui is just a bunch of boxes that says no data, so you have to remember what each button does.- The compilation process using platform IO is just frustrating. Had it working fine for a while, then i closed visual studio and reopened, and suddenly platform IO says it has no configurations and no longer lets me compile.I could go on and on with the issues I have found. The only reason this gets 2 stars is that after hours and hours of work i was able to get a print, but the entire process has been painful and convoluted. And mind you, this is not the first printer I have built by a long shot. Worst experience so far tho

Used to replace dead motherboard in a Tronxy X5SA Pro that I had previously added a Creality Sprite Pro extruder and driven with Klipper - so not a baseline configuration.Installed the board and initial checks showed everything "working" under supplied Marlin.Flashed to Klipper and noticed the hotend fan was always on - investigated and flashed back to custom Marlin to support the CoreXY - everything working except hot end fan always on.Quick message to tech support, a couple of clear troubleshooting steps and they immediately sent out a new boardInstalled the new board, flash klipper and everything is working great.Awesome customer support

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.