BigTreeTech Kraken V1.0 Motherboard – 8-Axis Controller

BigTreeTech is a brand known for taking the key features that everyone wants and building incredible controller boards that cater specifically to those features. As builders, suppliers, and avid enthusiasts of 3D printers, we enjoy bringing in a new high-tech controller board. The BigTreeTech Kraken V1.0 Motherboard is a beast of new improvements and impressive processing power. Designed to upgrade bigger-scale printers, the BTT Kraken is tailored for high-voltage stepper motors and an array of printer enhancements with its rich expansion ports. The features on this board benefit high-performance, high-speed printers like the Voron 2.4 or Voron Trident.

Advanced Features of the BigTreeTech Kraken V1.0 Controller Board

• High-Performance 32-Bit Processor – A powerful ARM Cortex-M7 chip sits on this motherboard and directs the traffic at 550MHz, which means a stable and fast system you can rely on. An all-metal heatsink ensures your motherboard stays cool and ready for any prints you throw at it.
• Onboard 8 TMC2160 Drivers – This 8-Axis controller is built for large-scale printing with power. The onboard TMC2160 drivers can handle up to 60V motor input voltage, split into four 8A and four 3A. Boost your printer’s power and efficiency with their reduced 52% heat production and high-load operations.
• Integrated Design Ready for Klipper or Marvin – Choose the best firmware for your printer. The BTT Kraken leaves space for directly connecting your Raspberry Pi or BTT Pi with a 5V 3A power supply port. The added convenience of seamlessly integrating external single-board computers makes many BTT controllers so popular.
• Dual JST Ports with CAN Support – A robust CAN protocol ensures stable, reliable data transmission and allows you to connect two EBB SB2240/2209 CAN boards. CAN boards augment your StealthBurner hotend and boost your printer with convenience.
• Ample Ports for All Kinds of Upgrades – The expansion ports on the BTT Kraken V1.0 support various modules, such as probes, CAN, 2x PT100/PT1000 resistors, LCD screens, auto-shutdown, RGB lights, and more. Add all the bits and bobs you love to enhance your printing experience. However, we must admit that the ports that we’re most interested in are the 8 stepper driver and stepper motor ports, as these directly translate to more control and more motors for your CNC or 3D printing projects.

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 to 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 how many features and integrations the BTT Kraken Motherboard has to offer.

Additional Resources:

• If you want to enjoy more technical details and documentation for the BigtreeTech Kraken V1.0 Controller, be sure to check out the BigTreeTech Kraken GitHub page.
• 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.
• For another opinion, this informative YouTube video from ModBot reviews the amazing BigTreeTech Kraken Controller and gives you a guide for getting started with it:

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.