New AD5X

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It's been leaked
Would imagine it has more memory on board now that it's running 4 colors

[KaruroChori]

Not really, changes in filament are defined by the slicer and are just basic, slow gcode moves. There is no real difference in the workload performed by MCUs and main board.

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So as far as our kipper mod will the firmware have to be changed ?

[KaruroChori]

Best option: they ship a newer version of klipper with this revised printer; the hardware is still mostly the same, and there is no meaningful change in the architecture of their software. In this case we should be able to backport the new klipper to the ad5m/pro as well and we all get to live happy ever since.

Likely option: the "new" firmware is still based on the same old branch of klipper; as it is, the printer can already work with multiple materials; there should be only minor changes to the configuration files and macros to support the new mcu which switches filaments. Most of them would be copied and pasted from the original files from flashforge.

Worst case scenario: new incompatible hardware or some custom protocol to handle the filament changer. In that case major changes would be needed, and modding might even not be possible as we are currently doing it. Even worse, none of that effort would improve the current ad5m/pro printers.

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Fingers crossed.