Voron Trident 300 Build: Part 7
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It's printing! But it will never be done.
As is the case with many of these build logs, the last few steps are undocumented because it's too exciting at the end.
The wiring stage of the project went surprisingly well, and I think this is largely due to the quality of the LDO kit. All the wires were pre-crimped and at appropriate, generous lengths.
I got a little stuck obsessing over getting KlipperScreen to work on NixOS, but eventually decided to forego that in favour of getting a first print.
My enthusiasm did result in a printhead crash, but only because I'd forgotten to put the metal build surface onto the bed, so the inductive probe couldn't activate. Of course, I should've tested the probe before running the Trident levelling macro, but I found that out afterwards.
Since then, I've figured out the BTT 43 TFT screen that comes with the LDO kit and it's running with the Raspberry Pi 4b on NixOS nicely (I fixed the Network panel for NixOS on the way). There's much more work to do before there's an out-of-box experience for Nix users, but I hope to get there someday soon. I think it'd be really nice to have a web GUI that configures an SD card image for Raspberry Pi Vorons, and that's totally doable with Nix.
Aaaand I have a serial: VT.1967!
Now, about that MMU...