Historical Timeline

Table of Contents

• About this page
• Timeline
  • Very first bootloader boot
  • Missing SPI Flash
  • First boot completed!
  • XYZ Cal
  • First Selftest finished!
  • Language Support
  • MMU2 Appears
  • MK404 Goes 3D
  • I Heard You Like Displays…​
  • Final 3D visuals
  • Y U NO PRINT??!?…​
  • Major milestone: First Benchy!
  • The Second Benchy
  • …​ ALL the colours!
  • MK404 tries Marlin
  • Marlin Fishing
  • Ow! Hot!2
  • MK404 Gets An Upgrade
  • Too many keyboard keys!
  • MK404 Comes to OSX

About this page

This is just an interesting page featuring some screenshots of the development process for those interested. It’s basically a showcase of how things grew over time and various neat milestones.

Timeline

Very first bootloader boot

Hello World!

Missing SPI Flash

Also shows some LCD wrapping issues that early versions suffered

First boot completed!

One of the first times boot completed, along with custom LCD chars!

XYZ Cal

XYZ Calibration completed! (after the PINDA was implemented, and with some motor visuals)

First Selftest finished!

Not long after that, MK404 completed its first self-test, and passed with flying colours!

Language Support

Langauge support took a while, due to issues with Optiboot, PTYs and flashing with avrdude-slic3r. Thanks to leptun for his work on implementing the SPI flash chip!

MMU2 Appears

Things got a little crazy when we added a second AVR and simulated the MMU2…​

MK404 Goes 3D

3D visualization was a lot of work…​ Getting the OBJ files to load and render properly was tricky.

I Heard You Like Displays…​

Eventually, it was functional, including a copy of the display!

Final 3D visuals

Y U NO PRINT??!?…​

Not long after the 3D rendering, there was a request for printed parts to be rendered too…​ so I poked around a bit with a proof of concept.

Major milestone: First Benchy!

Of course, once the print display was working, we had to print a benchy. This printer has some stringing issues…​

The Second Benchy

Stringing issues resolved, along with some better lighting and now we have something we can call a proper Benchy!

…​ ALL the colours!

because a single colour is so boring, right?

MK404 tries Marlin

Our first attempt to boot Marlin didn’t go so well…​.

Marlin Fishing

But after figuring out some underlying issues, we caught that particular fish.

Ow! Hot!2

Thanks to wavexx for his heater visualization improvements!

MK404 Gets An Upgrade

Roar!

Too many keyboard keys!

A menu addition to combat the issue of having to remember all the different key controls…​

MK404 Comes to OSX

Thanks to Bozzzzo for his work to make the code compile on OSX!