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[–] [email protected] 11 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) (2 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 minutes ago

Does the printer need to be runing custom firmware for klipper or is it just on the external device? I have been running octoprint for a while now without much issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 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] 3 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.