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MKS-Klipad50

MKS-Klipad50 v1.2

These single board computers are built by Makerbase and sold as Sovol’s “KlipperScreen”, an addon for their SV06/SV07 3D-printers that contains a preinstalled Klipper system. The boards are not sold separately and there is absolutely no information about them on either the Makerbase web site or their github repository. In well-known Makerbase tradition, they don’t offer any support or information (at least not to end-users).

Hardware components

  • 5-Inch HDMI-Display (hardwired, “Designware HDMI”, 800x480x32)
  • Touchpanel (hardwired, “QinHeng Electronics USB2IIC_CTP_CONTROL”, USB-ID 1a86:e5e3, 2048x2048)
  • 2 x USB-2, 1 x USB-3, 1 x USB-C
  • External SPI port
  • WiFi (rtl8723bs or bcm43430, 2.4Ghz, 54MB/s, 802.11b/g)
  • 2 status-LEDs (“gpio-leds” via rk805 gpio-controller)
  • System on eMMC card
  • Internal I2C bus
  • 1GB RAM

Board revisions

There are three revisions of the board (all are supported by the new Armbian images):

  • v1.0
    • WiFi chip: Realtek RTL8723bs
  • v1.1
    • WiFi chip: Realtek RTL8723bs
    • Additional fan connector
  • v1.2
    • WiFi chip: Broadcom BCM43430
    • Additional fan connector

Pictures of the 1.0 and 1.1 revisions can be found in this thread.

Armbian integration

The Klipad50 boards require the same kernel patches as the MKS-PI/MKS-SKIPR boards, but their devicetree configuration is quite different.

The MKS-Klipad50 changes are now integrated into mainline Armbian.

The devicetree definitions in the Armbian images have been reverse-engineered from the decompiled dtb of the original image for that board.

See Armbian images for details how this board is supported.


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