Testing the Pi substitute BTT CB1 and Manta M4P/M8P boards with Octoprint & Klipper

If you can’t get a Raspberry Pi, then these products might be for you. Bigtreetech has released a Raspberry Pi 4B substitute: the CB1. To go with it, two mainboards: the Manta M4P and M8P. The CB1 can be used to run Octoprint or Klipper, with the Manta mainboard being designed specially for Klipper.

Based on my testing, this is quite promising and most importantly more available than pi. If the CB1 becomes more popular and ready to go SD card images are created for things like Octoprint, it will become immensely more viable.

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0:00 Introduction

0:48 3D printing and Raspberry Pi shortages
Raspberry Pi website: https://www.raspberrypi.com/

2:06 Bigtreetech CB1 Pi substitute
Pi4B adaptor GitHub: https://github.com/bigtreetech/PI4B-A...

3:16 Testing CB1 as a straight pi swap

4:19 CB1 vs Pi 4B
Benchmarking processors Pi4B vs CB1: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/...
Pi 4B specs: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/...
Pi 3B specs: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/...
Kernel wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_...)

5:18 Setting up basic Debian on the CB1
Gnome desktop tutorial I used: https://www.fosslinux.com/49949/how-t...
CB1 OS image: https://github.com/bigtreetech/CB1
Raspberry Pi imager: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Debian desktop guide: https://debian-handbook.info/browse/s...

7:40 Installing Octoprint on the CB1
Manual Octoprint install guide: https://community.octoprint.org/t/set...
Putty SSH guide video:    • How to connect to your Raspberry Pi v...  

9:19 Manta M4P and M8P mainboards

10:37 Installing Klipper on Manta with CB1
M4P GitHub: https://github.com/bigtreetech/Manta-M4P
M8P GitHub: https://github.com/bigtreetech/Manta-M8P
Klipper install guide 1:    • How to convert to Klipper firmware: 3...  
Klipper install guide 2:    • How to convert to Klipper firmware: 8...  

15:07 Physical install and tuning
Ender 5 electronics case with updated M4P mount: https://www.printables.com/model/1801...
Klipper display options guide:    • Klipper interfaces: Step by step guid...  
Euclid docking ABL probe video:    • Euclid probe: Light, robust, mechanic...  

17:13 Final impressions

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