Ender3V2S1 VS Marlin

Compare Ender3V2S1 vs Marlin and see what are their differences.

Ender3V2S1

This is optimized firmware for Ender3 V2/S1 3D printers. (by mriscoc)

Marlin

Marlin is an optimized firmware for RepRap 3D printers based on the Arduino platform. Many commercial 3D printers come with Marlin installed. Check with your vendor if you need source code for your specific machine. (by MarlinFirmware)
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Ender3V2S1 Marlin
1,272 755
2,397 15,874
- 1.0%
6.3 9.8
12 days ago 7 days ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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Ender3V2S1

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ender3V2S1. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
  • How do you find out what type of lcd_type you have?
    1 project | /r/klippers | 10 Dec 2023
    See https://github.com/mriscoc/Ender3V2S1/wiki/How-to-update-the-display
  • Help interpreting Auto Mesh results.
    1 project | /r/Ender3S1 | 10 Dec 2023
    This looks like "professional firmware", you'll find it here. https://github.com/mriscoc/Ender3V2S1
  • Firmware & Slicer
    1 project | /r/Ender3S1 | 10 Dec 2023
    binary
  • Help !
    2 projects | /r/Ender3S1 | 10 Dec 2023
    I can’t upload pics in comments , just realized lol but if you go to this link https://github.com/mriscoc/Ender3V2S1 and go to the release page and scroll down to assets .. the F4 version is not there 😭
  • Firmware update.
    1 project | /r/Ender3S1 | 10 Dec 2023
    I would strongly recommend against creality firmware and instead get this https://github.com/mriscoc/Ender3V2S1/releases
  • Help!
    1 project | /r/ender3v2 | 10 Dec 2023
    Try to search on YouTube. If you have problem with 3d printer not detecting se card, try to use some other sd card that didnt came with 3d printer and change the name of firmware files (3d printer won’t install files if you don’t change name). Follow tutorial for formatting sd card and what firmware you would need. And I would install this firmware, it is better than stock one.
  • What does this mean, is it fine?
    2 projects | /r/ender3v2 | 9 Dec 2023
    Custom firmware, I think this is what I used, https://github.com/mriscoc/Ender3V2S1
  • Question about the klackEnder
    1 project | /r/ender3v2 | 8 Dec 2023
  • Professional Software
    1 project | /r/ender3v2 | 7 Dec 2023
  • Plug and play my a$$
    1 project | /r/3Dprinting | 7 Dec 2023
    Some of the s1 have a warped bed I had one like that. Swapping to professional firmware with UBL helped. I don't recommend any of the ender machines except the ones from this year anymore https://github.com/mriscoc/Ender3V2S1/releases/tag/20231202

Marlin

Posts with mentions or reviews of Marlin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-26.
  • Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023
    There is _a lot_ wrong with Marlin. It is a complex codebase, full with ancient artefacts, litterred with preprocessor ifdefs every 2-3 lines of code, dynamic includes in the middle of CPP files, etc[1]. It's about as unreadable as C++ code gets--well, I guess it's not template metaprogramming.

    Klipper by contrast is a breeze to read through[2].

    I am very grateful for Marlin, for all of reprap, and everyone who has contributed to it. But saying there is nothing wrong with it is straight up misguided.

    [1]: https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin/blob/bugfix-2.1.x/M...

    [2]: https://github.com/Klipper3d/klipper/blob/master/src/lcd_hd4...

  • E steps way off.
    1 project | /r/ender3 | 6 Dec 2023
    I think you are mistaken. I can't speak for implementations preceding the Ender 3 V2, so what you're saying may have been true at some point for other machines. However, here you can see Marlin developers confirm that there is an EEPROM on the stock E2V2 board using diagrams from Creality and photographic confirmation. Here is the datasheet for the EEPROM. Here is a thread discussing this Marlin release, and also the then-recent release of official Creality firmware which resolved the same issue. Since the stock firmware is based on Marlin, and at the time Marlin did not support this type of EEPROM, the EEPROM was not usable at launch. Any mainstream firmware (official or third-party) from the last three years will be using the onboard EEPROM unless the user intentionally specified otherwise.
  • FYI: Marlin 2.1.2.1 on Sapphire plus v2
    1 project | /r/TwoTrees | 26 Sep 2023
    pull latest Marlin from github: https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin
  • Ender 3 Pro + Octoprint = Thermal Malfunction, system stopped! Heater_ID: E0
    1 project | /r/Ender3Pro | 25 Aug 2023
    Also, checked the following discussion but seems like I need to update the firmware to be able to comment that like right? Temperature variance monitor tweaks by zeleps · Pull Request #23571 · MarlinFirmware/Marlin · GitHub
  • Marlin DACAI Screen Bug
    1 project | /r/ender3v2 | 6 Jul 2023
  • Anycubic Kobra Marlin 2.1+ based custom firmware
    4 projects | /r/anycubic | 30 Jun 2023
    i spent some time and successfully rebased Kobra 2.8.2 OG firmware from an unknown Marlin ~2.0.8 frankenstein to a clean latest (as of now) release (not bugfix) 2.1.x -- v2.1.2.1 + 1 commit
  • Digraphs and Trigraphs
    3 projects | /r/arduino | 28 Jun 2023
    As an example, check the macropocalypse in Marlin - but the actual trigger for me to start was Reprap firmware doing a floating point divide in interrupt context while targeting AVR8 core…
  • Need advice on intermittent thermal runaway (Ender 3 V2)
    1 project | /r/FixMyPrint | 27 Jun 2023
    Any change of thermistor or to a PT100/PT1000 will require recompiling the firmware, because every type has different characteristics. Marlin uses an internal table to calculate the temperature for whatever reading it gets from the CPU's analogue-to-digital converter. It has many tables for different thermistors, but only one is ever incorporated at compile time. So you have to specify which type you're using. You can see the commonly-used types in the list in Marlin's Configuration.h file, in the section headed // @section temperature. The tables themselves are in Marlin/src/module/thermistor.
  • Marlin ramps1.4
    1 project | /r/AnetA8 | 23 Jun 2023
  • Has anyone actually edited Marlin source code and added a new feature?
    1 project | /r/MarlinFirmware | 22 Jun 2023
    FWIW It IS open source but the GNU General Public License v3.0 rules apply. https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/Marlin/blob/bugfix-2.1.x/LICENSE

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ender3V2S1 and Marlin you can also consider the following projects:

Marlin - Marlin is an optimized firmware for RepRap 3D printers based on the Arduino platform. | Many commercial 3D printers come with Marlin installed. Check with your vendor if you need source code for your specific machine.

MKS-TinyBee - MKS TinyBee is a mainboard for 3d printing, based on ESP32 module

Marlin_Ender3v2 - This is an optimized firmware for Ender 3v2 3D printers. [Moved to: https://github.com/mriscoc/Ender3v2]

SKR-2

BIGTREETECH-SKR-mini-E3 - BIGTREETECH SKR-mini-E3 motherboard is a ultra-quiet, low-power, high-quality 3D printing machine control board. It is launched by the 3D printing team of Shenzhen BIGTREE technology co., LTD. This board is specially tailored for Ender 3 printer, perfectly replacing the original Ender3 printer motherboard.

klipper - Klipper is a 3d-printer firmware

Special_Configurations - In this repository there are the configuration files and releases for the Professional firmware with several features enabled. You can use the Configurator if you want to compile your own custom set of features. You can also request a pre-made binary for a small contribution on the Patreon site.

Marlin-2.0.X-MKS-Robin-Nano - Marlin 2.0.X for the MKS Robin Nano 1.1/1.2

Ender3S1-Standard - This is an optimized firmware for Ender 3S1 3D printers.

DWIN_T5UIC1_LCD - Python class for the Ender 3 V2 LCD

Ender-3 - The Creality3D Ender-3, a fully Open Source 3D printer perfect for new users on a budget.