I use an old phone. It is just velcroed to the top of the enclosure. I think it’s like an iphone4
A couple people have said this, but I still can’t get mine to work. I think the difference is this; are you doing anything beyond telling the printer to go to LAN only mode? For example, are you blocking the printer IP address from getting out the firewall/router? That’s what I’ve done. I lock the printer to a specific IP address, ensure the MAC address on the managed switch can only communicate on that IP, and ensure that IP address is blocked for outbound traffic at the edge router. When this is done, the slicer software on the laptop kind of sort of looks like it works with the printer in LAN only mode, but ultimately doesn’t. I can see the printer is there, but I can’t send anything to it. I can’t get updates from the AMS on filament changes. It just seems to fundamentally break when I block it at the firewall.
I know the laptop and printer can communicate with each other because I can ping the printer from the laptop on the local network.
It’s only when I turn the firewall block off that it works, even though I haven’t changed LAN only mode on the printer. In other words, I don’t think LAN only mode is LAN only.
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Same when it comes to the Ender… Time to join the dark side and build your own printer!
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Voron 2.4 is the plan when I eventually, somehow, get the money for it. Going to print the ABS/ASA parts on my P1S, should be a fun time.
Hmm, that’s odd. I’ll play around later tonight once this print finishes (taking a second try at printing a Flipper Zero case in TPU, first time was on my Ender 3, delaminated).
I’ll pull out my spare router and give it a go.
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It needs two way traffic though from printer to your tablet though doesn’t it? I get not allowing it outside of that but I don’t think you can just allow it to receive but not send.
Another minor thing to check, someone with a similar setup said that of all things, the thing that was borking it was the Windows firewall… Apparently Bambu Studio registered twice somehow, and got different permissions. They set them correctly, allowing it access their private network, and that fixed it.
(I’m also assuming the SD card is in the printer while you’re trying it? Some people leave it out accidentally, and that also just kinda stops anything from working in lan-only mode).
So this is another piece of network technical nitpicking but the router stands between the local network and another network… usually that other network is the internet. It doesn’t block traffic between nodes on the internal local network. The tablet and printer can communicate freely. The router just blocks any attempt to route traffic outside of the local network, I.e. the internet.
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That is interesting. The windows firewall on the tablet might be interfering with printer to tablet communication. Pinging the printer from the tablet would be allowed because the firewall would recognize the outbound traffic and expect the ping response and allow it. I’ll definitely check that out. Good thinking 
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Got you. Alright your description made me believe you used something like pfsense to stop it from communicating out, but not from receiving internal traffic. So I just had assumed.
good guess it is pfSense, and it’s blocking the printer from reaching the internet but it is not blocking comms between printer and tablet. I also block my Eufy cams from talking to China;
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Very happy with this Best TPU print I’ve done probably. Printed in Overture TPU on my P1S.
Absolutely 0 stringing at all. Some slight sag near the GPIO pins, but I don’t use those for anything atm. Forgot to make sure there were supports there, there weren’t. Still hard to notice with the naked eye.
My flipper is finally protected!
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That looks great!!
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Been on a big TPU kick now, thanks to a tweaked profile for my P1S. Been further tuning it, trying to increase speed without getting a ton of stringing.
Telescope eyepiece caps b/c I keep losing them
Neat beer bottle cap design I found
Lastly, I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned it on the forum, but dropped out of college a bit ago…
I’ve had this key loop for the last 4 years, and I really like having one, very useful for grabbing and finding my keys, but didn’t really want to rep the university anymore…
Printed a prototype out of TPU.
Overall, turned out extremely well. Incredibly strong, and decently flexible. I printed this one with 3 perimeters (1.2mm), on the next revision, I think I’ll try 2, to make it a little more flexible. Even then, I don’t hate that it’s a little more stiff, it seems to make it easier to grab while still comfortable in the pocket.
I also need to reduce the width a little near the keyring, maybe add an angle or something. I measured the fabric width, but the fabric rounded the corners of the keyring a little better. Might just make the whole thing a little bit less wide.
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Made a thinner and more flexible version that fits on my keyring better, and uploaded it to printables
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I’ve got the 2nd of 4 major exams in my EMT class this morning and I’m a bit stressed about it. I think I’m going to fail it, but not because I don’t know the answers, I’ll just be daydreaming about my new printer XD
After I build it, I’ll have to get some TPU and try printing your keyring @darthdomo!
Edit: Got an 88% on the exam. I hate how the questions have multiple correct answers and freely switch between wanting the most correct and the actual correct answer.
Instructor: Well the question is talking about the airway so while your answer is technically correct, it wants this answer.
Me: What about this question, it’s talking about circulation so I picked the correct answer that talks about circulation instead of the “technically correct” answer and still got it wrong.
Instructor: Well that one’s different.
Me: Why?
Instructor: Because it wants that answer.
Me: Why?
Instructor: That’s just how the book is.
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For anyone with a P1P or P1S who was looking at the P1Touch project (to add a touch screen to the P1 series via an ESP32 touchscreen board), the dev renamed it to xtouch, and finally published the source code:
The dev was slow to publish source, but oh well, at least he followed up on his word. Makes me feel less sketchy about trusting it (previously just posted the compiled binary), I’ll probably comb over the source a little just in case.
AFAIK it uses the same API backend that Bambu Handy does (and Bambu Studio). It should make it a lot easier to do AMS filament assignments (for when I finally get an AMS), calibration, etc.
I bought the requisite ESP32 board on AliExpress like a week ago for $10 or whatever, so we’ll see how it is once it gets here. It’s entered US customs already, so should be here within the week.
Here’s a pic someone else posted, including a 3D printed mount:
Will post an update once I get mine and try it out.
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that looks so clean
Feeling like shit lately, but spent my morning making a macro pad
Cobbled one together out of a raspberry pi pico I had lying around (hadn’t used one before), and some keyswitches I ripped out of a junk mechanical keyboard I was about to throw away. They’re just cheap knockoff blues, but they do the job.
Found an STL online that worked well for the casing, although I had to modify it a bit post-print to fit the Pico.
Now I can bind it to anything, and to change the binds, I just have to mount the removable volume, edit the MicroPython code for it, save, and replug. Changing the hard keybinds, which’ll be nice since I change OS often.
Currently have the top row set to previous track, play/pause, and next track, and key 4 is bound to ctrl-alt-T to open my terminal lol, although I don’t think I’ll keep it that way.
Happy with it for less than 3 hours from beginning to end. Haven’t done a project quite like this before.
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