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There are SD cards with WiFi support (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

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 Dodgey outdated apps to make them work and such.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Nah I just want something as simple as a wifi sd card

[–] [email protected] 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

It's better to just install klipper on a pi or other SBC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

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.