Orca Firmware Update

[Klaudia Aricas]

Ihave been using cura, but not happy with its lack of klipper support. After this video i am going to give orca a try. And it will be given a fair shake. There were so many things in it that i think will help me! The multiple trays and being able to paint supports! 2 biggies. Imagine loading up an entire lr3 on trays and print one after another! Then the fact they have a portable version (doesnt need installed, can run on usb!). Thats all for now. Havent really been in garage lately and have dual z to put on both, so maybe i can try calibration cube on both before and after to see how orca does!

I have an older version of prusaslicer I have tuned really well. I am even afraid to update. I have orca installed though. My plan is to go through the setup and then compare the gcodes from the two slicers directly.

I only updated PrusaSlicer to get the organic supports (which I am very impressed with. Never had much success with any other support type ever, but this seems to actually work.) I had a backup of the old version and all settings.

this is exactly what I did. Sat down one night with the print settings on one monitor and orca on the other. Loaded every file into one project and set each model to exactly what the guidance list called for. Then I just had to cycle the prints through the printer.

There is a steep learning curve for Cura to Orca because they are SOOOOO very different. Prusa users probably have less of a curve because the organization is the same. Teaching Tech did a couple videos on it that I found helpful.

I did some work at some point to force all of the prusa mk4 settings to work for my printer. I tried updating it and they do so much magic to make the builtins only for the prusa printers that I just reverted to the older version.

It is a little different than Prusa. So far so good, oddly the window is not working well like maximize and stuff, maybe I just need to reboot after the install. Could be anything at this point I have a fresh windows install as well.

I have to say, somehow Klipper really got me today. My host names got screwed up and it had been a while. i am lucky i did not blow the whole thing up, i was deep in the weeds, then, I finally saw that and got going. it was not a fun time, but I am having fun right now. Both printers are printing orca test cubes right now. I also have dual z that i will be putting on them tomorrow or Saturday, most likely Saturday.

So last night i decided to download and print the orca cube. All dimensions were perfect, looks awesome, butttttt, that darn screw will not screw in. My printers are tuned very well, but something did not allow either printer to use the screw! That is a bummer!

Holy GOOD God! So I just found out that Longer uses non compatible steppers from Creality. The Dual z did not go as expected! I was finally able to grab the z cable from my ender to and put the dual z cable on it, and then transfer it to my longer and get it running!!! This 3d printing thing, sometimes I see why peeps spend so much on them! My cheap printers are not so cheap anymore, but I was able to upgrade slowly instead of everything up front!

After flashing the new high speed firmware to my SV06 I am trying to set it up in either Orca or Prusa. According to the Sovol wiki steps 1. Select the high-speed printing configuration option: Click 0.20mm High-Speed @Sovol SV06. However, that is not an option on Orca. Anyone got any ideas? Cheers

Since you are using non-HPE hard drives (WD Red Hard drive), not sure if the issue is being caused becuase of compatibility. You can put in a HPE hard drive in that slot and check if the correct hard drive size is being detected. If so, it could be a comaptibility issue. The latest firmware for P410 is 6.64 (B). In case you want to update it to the latest version with no OS installed on the server, you can use the SPP (Link provided below). Its a bootable iso image that you can boot off and use to update the firmware. If OS is installed, you can download the respective firmware (OS dependent) and update it.

your printer runs a firmware that has some severe errors in its communication protocol implementation which due to the identifying string on its most widely spread variant will be called "CBD firmware" going forward.

Since so many users are affected by this broken firmware and the printer vendors in question so far haven't been very forthcoming with fixing their faulty product, there's an OctoPrint plugin you can install to work around these issues if you are affected:

If your printer shipped with this broken piece of firmware, please scream at your printer vendor to fix their product. Issues like this take up a ton of resources in support that are then directly lacking for maintaining and improving OctoPrint for everyone. Vendors should not get away with putting out faulty products and then basically abandoning them and having the Open Source Community fix them for them for free.

Please note: This list is not exhaustive. Just because your printer isn't listed here doesn't mean it has safe, well implemented firmware and electronics, it just means nobody has yet tried and added their experiences here. So please test and update accordingly with your results to help others in the future, thanks

Considering the sheer amoung of issues observed in this community with Creality stock firmware and electronics, at this point we can only strongly recommend to flash your own Marlin and either apply the 5v pin mod or better yet swap out your printer's controller.

While it already says "probably more (maybe all) models:" under Qidi, I can confirm that that "Fix CBD" plugin has to be installed for the i-mate(s). Otherwise using a USB-TTL cable with rx to tx and tx to rx works great.

I tried slicing a simple cube on Bambu Studio and exporting it as a G-code.

I did go over the whole file and tried extracting start and end parts (also double checked with the start and end G-codes that are on the software already.)

Hello everybody, after small adjustments the Start- and Endcodes are running now a while, so heres the final version ? It is tested with actual firmware, without noise reduction mode and only with Orca-Slicer (05.03.24: tested only with 0.4mm...

Now you can capture, record and process, in real time, extremely rich underwater acoustic data sets. The TR-ORCA is available in full size and mini versions, both supporting five synchronously sampled hydrophone inputs, configurable sampling rates and internal solid state storage. The TR-ORCA is easy to use, deploy and configure, and is flexible enough for almost any underwater acoustic measurement scenario. Applications include underwater noise characterization, marine mammal studies, underwater detection and localizations.

TR-ORCA was originally designed for a specific use. That was to localize passive sources over a really wide acoustic bandwidth. Through research and experience we have found that five element arrays give better performance than four element arrays in beamforming and localization applications. The fifth channel can be used in a small compact circular array as a center element, which allows for simple beamforming, and bearing estimation at moderate frequencies. While the extra element in the middle of a tetrahedral array can give excellent non-ambiguous results for time of arrival applications at ultrasonic frequencies, like those used by harbor porpoise. Below is a plot of some cardioid beamforming results with five hydrophones directly connected to our end cap in a small circular array configuration.

Yes. All of the hydrophones are synchronously sampled and the five elements allows for non-ambiguous array designs for localization. The TR-ORCA can even capture data from harbor porpoise clicks in excess of 130 kHz and localize on these common events. The TR-ORCA has also been used in digital beamforming applications with small compact arrays.

Yes, the TR-ORCA keeps its own time with a real time clock. This clock gets synced to UTC or computer time every time you connect to TRAC. Our real time buoy TR-FLOAT allows for real time wireless transmission of raw acoustic data, and also provides GPS information to TR-ORCA. It is possible to synchronize TR-ORCA time to GPS time. All recorded files are time stamped with the real time clock time.

There are two possibilities for integrating other sensors with the TR-ORCA. The user can use a spare input channel to sample analog information from another sensor, or a digital stream can be captured from an external sensor. Care must be taken to not exceed maximum input levels when using hydrophone channels for external analog information. At this time, the TR-ORCA does not support capturing a digital stream from an outside instrument, though this is planned for a future firmware release. Please contact us about any custom sensor integration requirements.

The base TR-ORCA package is very small and positively buoyant. The easiest way to deploy is over the side of a vessel, or simply anchored to the ocean bottom with a pickup buoy. For deep deployments an acoustic release may be required. Versions of the TR-ORCA with larger battery packs can be easily deployed using our elliptical float collar, or rigidly mounted to a bottom platform, or inline on a mooring. Turbulent Research also provides a real time topside buoy for extra power and wireless data transmission, this is an excellent solution for real time noise or marine mammal monitoring and mitigation.

Yes, the TR-ORCA includes a powerful, but simple and easy to use scheduler. Users can set up their device to enter an extremely low power state and wake up on a specific schedule where it can either record data, process data, or stream it live. The scheduler is an easy way to extend the duration of any deployment.

The TR-ORCA is especially useful in the characterization of ambient and anthropogenic underwater noise. This device can record and stream raw samples, while performing noise analysis processing in the form of third octaves spectrums, average SPL, peak SPL and percentiles. We are also working on a real time sound exposure level (SEL) module in an upcoming firmware/software release. This product integrates with our wireless topside buoy, TR-FLOAT, so users can seamlessly monitor underwater noise up to 7 km away from the deployed TR-ORCA, which is ideal for noise mitigation projects.

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