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Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled de (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 14 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Ender 3 Pro is a completely offline printer. It has a microSD slot and a USB port, that's it. No network connectivoty at all. It runs Marlin firmware which is a long-standing Arduino-based open source 3D printer firmware. It's highly customizable and upgradable. I added a CR Touch bed probe to mine and rebuilt the firmware to enable the unified bed leveling features. It's not the most user friendly but it's a decent, cheap platform, fully open source, and puts out decent prints.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    You can also run klipper on them if you want network connectivity. Granted you need a raspberry pi to run klipper so there is that.

    After running klipper on my Ratrigs I can't even consider Marlin anymore. Modifying a config file and restarting is less painful than having to compile and flash a bin for every modification or update.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    That's what I switched to about 2 months after getting my Ender 3 S1 Pro. Klipper running from a RPi, lets me push sliced files out over WiFi to the printer right from Orca. So much better than dealing with SD cards.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    As another 3d printing noob, why would I want my 3d printer connected and be in the mercy of some company? Feels like this dependency makes it so you don't truly own the product.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    LAN mode. I kind of understand why they do it because it just works. I gave my Sister my X1C and it was the first printer I felt comfortable with giving her family, because it just works.

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