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California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers (www.theregister.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/69760899

So much for the constitution

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[–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

Hm nah this is mostly about commercial printers. As a 3d printer hobbieist I can build it from the ground up so I wouldn't care much

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago*

    Most of the hobbyist 3D printer market is not people who think that building 3D printers is fun and their primary hobby, it's people who bought them to print other stuff for them.

    It's literally the entire reason Bambu has shot to popularity so fast.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The mechanical hardware build is no problem, building a controller and firmware is a different matter. This legislation is all about the firmware.

    I have some experience with 3d printing equipment but I'm not sure I could build a controller from the ground up. To be fair, I've never really looked into it so maybe it's easier than it seems.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    You can buy a controller at any place that sells motors or Arduinos. None of my printers have their stock controller.

    The firmware most controllers run is often a modified version of one of the different open source 3d printer firmwares (klipper, Marlin, etc)

    You can even choose to compile and flash the firmware yourself (often just load bin file to sdcard and insert into board)

    But all of that is moot because the controller and firmware are not capable of that level of processing. You would have to implement it on the slicer level, and even that wouldn't work because most of them are open source.

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