What makes the P1 printers tick?
A control board, well actually a bunch of them to make things harder…
But at the heart it is just a flimsy SOC…
I started wondering about my early days of printing and having build the machines from scratch, having the controllers programmed and all that hassle…
I upgraded my laser engravers in similar ways, so what would be deal with a Bambu printer ?
Maybe a nice Raspberry PI with the lot?
Or just a 32bit ESP board with silent motor drivers and enough memory?
Either way the only major hurdle seems to be all these custom connectors used in the printer.
That however is fixable with cutting and soldering…
And with so many all in one controller boards for CNC use already out there…
How hard could it be ?
Not that hard actually, if you exclude the nightmare of matching one of the available open source firmwares and well, those wiring troubles.
So where is China when you need them, where are the creative tinkerers who can do these things blindfolded and did so in the past already?
Drowned out by users LOL
But jokes aside why isn’t there a solution already considering how popular these printers are?