Hi all! I just finished reading through the thread. I'd really like to pick up a Troodon. They're on sale at the moment! I had been looking to get a Voron or clone but want to order one "thing", be it a partial assembled printer or whole kit, and assemble it as opposed to ordering parts from vendor X and other stuff from vendor Y. I figured that the Troodon would be the closest I could get.
Anyhow, I stumbled on this thread while attempting to perform some due diligence. As others have noted there is no firmware download located on their website. This concerned me and Googling for "Troodon Firmware" presents this thread as the first result.
I thought I would add my voice in for wondering about where the current situation is with respect to newer firmware versions appearing on this machine. I obviously do not expect the Duet3D project and maintainers to be investing a large amount of time or effort supporting a cloned product, and I applaud the helpful questions and answers that are here. I am more wondering: Is there is any active work trying to debug it or the situation is more in Vivedino's court?
One last thing, for those of you who have this printer, what is your perception on the level of difficulty in changing the current controller out to an official Duet setup? I had hoped that if the board with the Troodon was a clone that they would at least have used similar connectors to the point where it the only hassle would be mounting the required two Duet boards.
One thing about these "cheaper" printers is that they use these clone parts. It keeps the price down and I don't mind it so much. However, as I get accustomed to the printer I almost always replace the cloned parts for the real deal. For instance, I'm not going to bother with their Mosquito clone. I'd much rather get the real one from Slice Engineering and support them. Suffice to say, I hope to do the same with the board regardless of the ability to get Vivedino firmware updates or make my own. My large concern is that I'm now seeing that the version of firmware on this printer is a major revision old. I'd like to at least be able to get to a later version before I introduced the change in hardware.
Thanks again for everyone contributing to the conversation!