Hey there, just for those who didn’t hear about this amazing conversion project, a member of the Japanese Klipper discord came up with a full conversion of the kp3s 3.0 into a Voron V0.1/Tiny-M like printer.
For now, they are facing some issues as they originally released it under a commercial license (the voron being a GPL 3 based project, this means you cannot release derivatives with a different license) but that should be sorted soon, the files and the BOM have been hidden in the meantime.
The design was actually made from scratch, not copied or edited from the voron v0, however the author prefers to be on the safe side and reach out to the voron team just in case.
Since the info is all in Japanese I figured I might as well give the big lines, translated. I will also try to keep this updated with new info and the eventual release.
- The price estimation (using high quality parts mind, so it will be possible to get it done cheaper for sure) is 20000 yen, which amounts to around 150€/175usd.
- The size of the printer is 260x285x356mm.
- The print area is 170x170x170mm, so you do lose a bit of the area the kp3s 3.0 has but you get more out of it from the much higher speeds.
- The hotend setup just keeps the old parts (of the kp3s 3.0, not the old 1.0)
- The bed is cantilevered and reuses the old one, simply.
- The design also reuses a few old parts, although the main change is that the rails used are MGN7H. You will need to source three of those, 200mm length. The author is trying to also make a version that uses more standard MGN12H rails unlike the V0.
- A couple size comparisons with the original kp3s and the voron family :
