RFID chips…Yes, RFID chips. There are many filament providers and sources for our filaments and it’s not a secret to Bambu that we are sometimes using other filaments other than Bambu brand in our AMS. It seems that if Bambu wants to be the top brand in their field, they could research and incorporate the most common RFID readers in the AMS to be able to read other brand filament RFID tags to inform our Bambu Lab printers who’s filaments we have loaded. Just saying…
This is not as simple as it sounds.
All the companies that use RFID in their spools have different standards they are going off of.
The most common filament brands don’t even use RFID. It is a nice feature to have, but I don’t need my basic polymaker filament to cost more than it already does.
The best solution is to have programable tags, but that would take away the convince of having RFID in the first place.
Exactly.
I might also add that RFID on material is one of the things that Stratasys is suing Bambu over.
One standard protocol that everyone used could mean that Stratasys would have an easier time shutting it down as opposed to a bunch of different protocols.
I dont want to turn this into another patent thread, but I linked the relevant patents above if anyone wants to read into them.