The Creality Sonic Pad is a 7” colour tablet based on Klipper that connects to your 3D printer with a USB cable. It takes over control of your printer and makes it faster and easier to use.

Klipper is a powerful open source 3D printing firmware. Klipper has advanced features that can significantly speed up printing, and the tablet has built in network connectivity so you can upload and monitor your prints remotely. If you plug in a USB webcam, you’ll even get a live feed of your print job and automatically recorded timelapses of your prints.

Klipper is notoriously difficult to set up for most people, but Creality have attempted to provide everything in one package to get you up and running quickly. Although it’s worth pointing out at the outset, that this is only if you have one of their short list of supported printers. Theoretically you can connect most 3D printers, not just from Creality. But there's a lot more work involved and the advantages of a product like this might not be so clear.

I’ll run through setup and all its features, and I’ll test just how well it performs. It’s not cheap at £160 here in the UK, but hopefully I can help you decide if it’s worth the money.

If you want to skip forward or back at any time in this video, please use the chapter markers YouTube creates from the timestamps down below and in the pinned comment.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:06 What's in the box
1:34 Spec, printer pad overview
2:05 Initial setup
3:21 Levelling printer
4:28 Setting z-offset with nozzle and bed heated up
4:38 Sending first print
4:48 Print screen options
5:15 Spec and performance of printer pad
5:38 Sonic Pad menus and settings
6:44 Adding a webcam, timelapses, supported webcams, webcam settings
7:41 Accessing network web interface
8:17 Printing directly from Cura with Moonraker extension & enabling thumbnails
9:43 Slicing for the Sonic Pad in Creality Print
9:54 Setting up Cura with Sonic Pad. Fast profiles
10:32 Input shaping - measuring resonance
11:40 Measuring Y-axis vibrations - for better performance
13:00 Results for X and Y input shaping
13:10 Sonic Pad PLA print tests, including 21 minute #speedboatrace 3D Benchy
14:06 Sonic Pad PETG test
14:37 Tuning pressure advance for for better looking prints - worth doing!
15:15 Switching back to original firmware
15:44 Brief overview of adding non-supported printer
16:35 Conclusions
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#sonicpad #creality #speedboatrace