• GlenRambo@jlai.lu
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    13 hours ago

    I recently looked into them. They seem shit. Dodgey outdated apps to make them work and such.

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      That’s another reason why they’re kinda dead now. Closeted apps they have to maintain just to keep that garden walled, and it was a cost they decided they also didn’t want to spend.

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      13 hours ago

      Too bad it should be the simplest way to add wifi file transfer to a 3d printer

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        If you’re interested and can get your hands on some kind of SBC (like a raspberry pi) Klipper has been amazing for my printer. You can also use pretty much any computer but it’ll be much less efficient energy wise.

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        12 hours ago

        I’d rather just have an ethernet port on the damn printer. You shouldn’t have to cludge together basic network device functionality on devices that expensive

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          At least my 3d printer was so inexpensive it’s silly.

          I’m pretty happy that the engineering team that built it doesn’t need to worry about networking code and maintaining a networked device. Jappy that an open source community does it instead.

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      I tried them with a few different cameras. They sucked. They wouldn’t reliably connect to Wi-Fi, and they didn’t reliably upload images.