3D printer nightmare fuel: Bambu X1C and P1P started printing while owners were asleep

Flaky_Fish69, 8 months ago

any one have the gcode?

We should start sending it to these printers,

Avalanched, 8 months ago

After hearing this I wish I hadn´t installed those silent stepper drivers.

Flaky_Fish69, 8 months ago

For the record, you can just adjust voltage and trash your steppers.

jeebus, 8 months ago

Someone left a port open. Oopsey!

kn33, 8 months ago

We have one of these at work but we leave the cloud connection off because we don’t trust it. Seems like we made the right choice.

andyburke, 8 months ago

Why does a print queue need to live in the cloud instead of on your machine or on the printer itself?

knoland, 8 months ago

Cause then you can charge a subscription fee for your cloud service.

cassetti, 8 months ago

Totally not for spying on what people are printing......... ;-)

And I absolutely agree, for many reasons. I prefer my printers stay offline

kn33, 8 months ago

The only legitimate reason I can think of is making it easier for the software/firmware developers. The types of nerd to be really into 3D printing would have a higher than average rate of also being the type of nerd to not have a flat network. Getting two devices on the same network to communicate reliably can have unexpected issues. Mix in routing and it gets harder.

In contrast, it’s really easy to tell the software to send the print job to a server and tell the printer to connect to a server to retrieve print jobs. It’s easier than establishing a reliable direct connection between the devices, ironically.

Now, is this a good enough reason to remove the option for local control? No. But they haven’t done that. The cloud component isn’t a requirement. Honestly, I can’t fault them too much for their overall architecture.

Transcendant, 8 months ago

“Doesn’t look like anything to me…”