BigTreeTech Octopus Pro V1.0 Controller

BigTreeTech is one of our favourite brands for 3D Printer Upgrades that truly uplevel your 3D Making with quality features and designs. They take the key features that everyone wants and build incredible boards that cater specifically for those features.With their own line of BIQU 3D Printers, made by their sister-brand known as BIQU, BigTreeTech have only been getting better and better since their original splash into the industry. This fact is even more evident with their new BTT Octopus Pro V1.0 Controller Board which takes the powerful 8-Axis and plentiful interface design of the BTT Octopus and adds to its features with improved driver control, high voltage printing and onboard amplifier chip. This high-end but affordable 3D Printer Controller offers more ports for motors, fans, thermistors and peripherals, and even more processing speeds for true futureproofing as the industry moves forward.

What’s New on the BigTreeTech Octopus Pro V1.0 Controller?

We can’t talk about this amazing BTT Octopus Pro V1.0 Controller without mentioning the original Octopus Controller whose already incredible features are all present in the Pro version. We recommend you have a look at our description of the Octopus V1.1 Controller for a better understanding since we cannot mention everything here at once. These two motherboards support a large array of the best of 3D Printer features, including a filament runout sensor, BLTouch automatice levelling, TFT Displays, and the print resume function.

Now, a quick look at what’s new for the BTT Octopus Pro is far more interesting and informative for you, our valued customers. Without further ado, let’s dive into the surprising differences that make this Pro Controller worth the recognition as a professional high-end upgrade.

• Improved Driver Control and 60V high voltage printing – The 8-Axis support of the BTT Octopus Pro V1.0 stands apart from its predecessor with stronger capacitors and high voltage sockets. This means Makers can rely on a printing power of up to 60V! Along with this change is the improvement of the control electronics as well. This handy utility allows you to use a jumper to activate the high voltage function or leave the power input to the standard 24V used in most motherboards.
• On-Board MAX31865 Chip for PT100 Sensors – While the previous controller provided space for this feature, the BTT Octopus Pro V1.0 provides an on-board MAX31865 Chip which supports the use of PT100 or PT1000 sensors. This controller board supports up the 4-wire sensors using a micro-switch for configuration. These PT100 Sensors are high-temperature thermistors, able to accurately measure your hotend up to 400°C. This is an essential function for Makers printing advanced high-temperature filaments.
• Convenient Additional Features – The BTT Octopus Pro V1.0 also slipped in a few rather unexpected features that add a delightful touch. One of these is the inclusion of a small buzzer that warns you of overtaxing your motherboard. Fortunately, a fuse is also found in the box to help manage any dangerous voltage. On top of all this, a wide choice of firmware is available for RepRap as well as the usual Klipper, Marlin, or OctoPrint.

Of course, we only have so much space in this description, and simply can’t tell you about every single feature, so we invite you take a look through the collection of documentation on their GitHub page (Linked below) and glance through the User Manual to get a taste of precisely just how many features and integrations the BTT Octopus Pro Motherboard has to offer.

Additional Resources:

• To get more information and useful insights on this awesome board, be sure to start by visiting the BigTreeTech Octopus Pro V1.0 GitHub Page, where you can find schematics, an extensive user manual, as well as loads of other technical resources.
• Next up, this is the fantastic BigTreeTech Thingiverse List, which offers awesome STL files for enclosures and other designs that incorporate many of their controller boards, Displays and upgrades into popular 3D Printers, with designs that cater to all kinds of machines, styles and tastes.
• Finally, Ed’s 3d Tech on Youtube has a fantastic BTT Octopus Tutorials Playlist with tips and guides for working with the BTT Octopus and Octopus Pro Controller Boards.

As one of the rising stars in the world of 3D Printer Component Research and Development, BigTreeTech have certainly hit the ground running, entering the market in 2015 and spending their early stages primarily learning, researching, testing and developing, before producing some truly impressive results. From simple but effective upgrades to standard parts, all the way through to completely custom parts that no other brand offered at the time, BigTreeTech now have an incredibly diverse range, with almost no area of 3D Printing being left out.

Some of BigTreeTech’s most notable additions to the world of 3D Printing include the SKR Motherboard Range for numerous different 3D Printer models, the awesome TFT Touch Display Range with fancy features like dual-mode operation, as well as their very impressive Stepper Driver Range that cater to all tastes and preferences under the sun. And of course, to top it all off, BigTreeTech also have a sister company named BIQU, and we must admit that they have been producing some pretty impressive (and low price) 3D Printers, with the BIQU B1 possibly becoming a new rival to the Ender 3.

Of course, it’s easy to see that BigTreeTech are modern masters of 3D Printing R&D, and while we do still have a lot of different parts that we want to test out from them, so far we’ve been extremely happy with what they’re capable of producing – all while fitting into same kind of hobbyist budget that they used to operate on as Makers and Tinkerers themselves.