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Please don’t take the following as an endorsement of Bambu. > What benefit does "cloud" offer a 3d printer? A large print can take 24 hours or more. Offering

by 542458 3y ago

Please don’t take the following as an endorsement of Bambu. > What benefit does "cloud" offer a 3d printer? A large print can take 24 hours or more. Offering the ability to walk away and check-in and issue commands remotely is useful to people. (Yes, you shouldn’t leave a printer unattended, but the basic reality is people do leave their printers unattended anyways.) > I'm leery of the whole "image recognition to spot errors" thing anyway. I don’t think it’s inconceivable that it could work well. The main issue being monitored for here is “has the print prematurely detached from the bed”, which I’d imagine should be possible to reliably detect with a known camera, angle, and print characteristics.

xeromal 3y ago
This right here. I have a crappy mono price 3d printer that I've hooked up to a belkin outlet that I can turn off. I point one of my cameras at it and check in on long prints and am able to cut the power if I notice a bad print job. It's pretty handy and helps me rest easy knowing I have one more way to prevent a fire.
- traverseda 3y ago
  I think just cutting the power like that can lead to melt zone creep and nozzle clogs, especially with higher temperature filaments. If you're not experiencing that though it's probably fine. Maybe toggle the power on and off so the hotend fan continues to work.
  - xeromal 3y ago
    I only have the switch for when there's an emergency or a print is going crazy and I'm too far away to go fix it. Pretty much the last resort option. I've never even needed to use it
regularfry 3y ago
> > I'm leery of the whole "image recognition to spot errors" thing anyway. > I don’t think it’s inconceivable that it could work well. It's been done before, although others with actual experience of Spaghetti Detective will have to chime in with whether it works well.
- Kirby64 3y ago
  They renamed to Obico. As for how well it works: the answer is pretty well. When a print starts failing, it fails quite dramatically typically. You just want to know if the print is going to waste a bunch of filament or potentially embed itself into your hotend. Figuring out if you start spraying filament everywhere is pretty easy to spot. This isn't intended to spot subtle layer shifts or something, it's more about fatal errors that left unchecked will just throw away filament or (in a worst case) ruin a printer.

by 542458 3y ago

xeromal 3y ago

This right here. I have a crappy mono price 3d printer that I've hooked up to a belkin outlet that I can turn off. I point one of my cameras at it and check in on long prints and am able to cut the power if I notice a bad print job. It's pretty handy and helps me rest easy knowing I have one more way to prevent a fire.

traverseda 3y ago
I think just cutting the power like that can lead to melt zone creep and nozzle clogs, especially with higher temperature filaments. If you're not experiencing that though it's probably fine. Maybe toggle the power on and off so the hotend fan continues to work.
- xeromal 3y ago
  I only have the switch for when there's an emergency or a print is going crazy and I'm too far away to go fix it. Pretty much the last resort option. I've never even needed to use it

regularfry 3y ago

> > I'm leery of the whole "image recognition to spot errors" thing anyway. > I don’t think it’s inconceivable that it could work well. It's been done before, although others with actual experience of Spaghetti Detective will have to chime in with whether it works well.

Kirby64 3y ago
They renamed to Obico. As for how well it works: the answer is pretty well. When a print starts failing, it fails quite dramatically typically. You just want to know if the print is going to waste a bunch of filament or potentially embed itself into your hotend. Figuring out if you start spraying filament everywhere is pretty easy to spot. This isn't intended to spot subtle layer shifts or something, it's more about fatal errors that left unchecked will just throw away filament or (in a worst case) ruin a printer.