Hello and welcome to this week's this week in this week's 3d in week.
I am ....and let's just get straight into it because there is loads.
Graphables (Now with added trees!)
"Prusa leaks obvious fact and says to keep it secret"
OK the headline here is that printables have added statistics to their interface look here's
mine, I have some...statistics..
I mean if I ever made anything of value then I guess I could have more statistics, but
this is big news for anyone who uses printables because now you can actually see how many
other people use your printables too.
Get over there and have a look!
While they were revealing this in their live stream they also happened to reveal tree supports
before telling everyone to keep it on the low...right so just 12 thousand people, hey
what's another 3 thousand that will watch this.
I called it though, I just want to put that out there, called it, last episode.
Confirmed.
So I gotta tell you about the paint on cat faces coming to cura next release, you can
just paint cat faces.
Legit.
I have my sources.
AI in octoprint?
Spotting print errors so you don't have to
"This section is somehow called why has it taken me this long to discover octoeverywhere.
Hmm.
If you use octoprint with any regularity then you probably either have heard of octoeverywhere
or you absolutely need to.
It's been on my radar for a couple of months now, but I spotted an announcement just as
I was preparing this episode about a new functionality as you can see about AI detection, so I had
a chat with the developer about it.
The AI detection is about to be unleashed within potentially hours of this episode being
released depending how quickly I finish, and I've been actually playing with it as I have
a sneak preview, haha youtuber perks or what, and I had some preliminary questions answered
too, on how it detects failures, to give you the news version that isn't too in depth,
it continuously monitors the view on camera and looks for it changing in a way that "doesn't
look right", which is kind of mind blowing really, given how different various prints
could be, it seems quite smart even now, it's had over 6 months of development from the
one guy who makes it, including training data to this point, but, I quote, it is capable
of processing 3 million images a day, and once released will continue to learn - as
you can see you can report missed failures which I assume is a way to train the AI yourself,
so it will improve not just as you use it but as everyone uses it.
I know there's other AI based solutions but this one is currently completely free, and
the developer is very keen to keep it that way although you can support the project and
raise limits on some functions that require servers, I can't believe the whole thing was
created by one developer, and I think it's fair to say I'm kind of kicking myself for
dragging my feet on looking into it.
I mean, look, it emails you when your print is finished even, with a photo, of your print.
...So don't be like me, check it out, like, now, if not before.
3 New machines this week- we have the neptune 3 Pro, and yes, I have it, I just showed it
in the octoprint section a moment ago.
I would say it was announced on the uh...but it hasn't actually been announced yet, its
not often I get to break the news about a printer but this one I have been using for
a few days now, I actually really am digging it but i'll save the shilling part for the
review.
It's shiny though, i mean, look at it.
So shiny.
Oh and I've been told a price of $230 by the way for those wondering.
But more on that when I do the review.
It is still otherwise rather quiet on the new machine front, I don't even have any machines
I can't talk about at the moment, the neptune 3 was the only outstanding secret pre release
one I had, so we'll talk about filament instead.
This was announced a few days ago from fiberlogy the almost unpronouncable company whose reels
look like they fell out of portal 2, disappointingly the cool look is purely aesthetic because
the donuts just clip on, look.
But PVB is a thing, it already exists, but I need to look into it, I think, It smooths
like ABS but with IPA instead of acetone so it makes it a compelling choice over ABS because
it's a lot easier to use, potentially.
I also found some PETG that looks almost exactly like poo..chocolate, and couldn't help buying
it.
I don't know why I'm telling you this.
Anyway it arrived and here's some uh, ice cream.
What do you think.
I'll link below in case you have any um...chocolate things you need to print.
Artillery finally takes a moment's pause Filament changes!
While we're on the topic of machines, its absolutely not a new machine but if you have
an artillery X2, genius, that's a machine, I'm not being sarcastic for a change, if you
have an artillery X2 OR genius then you will probably want to get the new firmware that
enables M600.
M600 being filament change, I'm not sure why they are calling it colour change.
But yeah thought I would drop that in because I know a LOT of people run artillery printers,
self included.
If you don't and your M600 doesnt work then seriously consider building marlin youself,
whats the worst that can happen, right?
Oh Geee.
"GEETECH decides to sell suspiciously familiar leveling device."
Okay this has been dominating the 3d twittersphere for the last week, authoritative youtuber
and subscriber to this channel..Chuck hellyebuck AKA Chep noted publicly that one printer manufacturer
Geeeeetech who I'm sure we're all aware of on this channel had "allegedly" copied his
design for the ever popular bed levelling thingy.
Now I can't speak to the chances of whether they would organically arrive at the quite
remarkably similar design by accident but you can't deny the .... similarities.
3d printing twitter is...unsurprisingly..not impressed.
I will say that to my view, CHEP's bed leveller is half the product, the other half being
Chuck himself, so I can't hugely understand why Geeetech and also others it turns out,
why they would think they stand a chance of selling an equivalent product in enough numbers
to make it worth the apparent ire they have inspired on social media.
I mean, if you need assistance levelling your bed and don't want to buy a chep levelling
tool then it's surely easier to just, you know, follow one of CHEP's many bed levelling
tutorials using, you know, CHEP's levelling template that he provided, I made one too,
use that either, neither of us charge for these.
To play devil's advovate for a moment though, I think if we take a few steps back, is it
appropriate to overly criticize a manufacturer for seeing a good idea and making their own
version?
They didn't clone it, it seems like they made it from scratch to me, and Chuck is not in
possession of a patent, but let me know what you think about that.
But anyway this ties in with a wider discussion we've all been grappling with on twitter for
a long while now which is one of manufacturers kind of repeatedly shirking license compliance
with slicers and marlin firmware, and so on.
When I say wider I mean everyone, even Jo Prusa and the cura devs have been involved
in the dialogue.
If you want me to go into it let me know in the comments and I'll consider whether I want
to go down that rabbit hole.
Yes once again, called it.
It's here although it's not here here.
But coding for input shaping is now in the current bugfix branch of marlin which means
that we're hopefully going to be seeing it in builds pretty soon, again you can make
it yourself if you are so inclined.
Will I cover it?
ffff I'm quite up to my neck with stuff at the moment but if I get chance then sure.
It doesnt use an adxl sensor so as I understand it, works in the same way as the equivalent
non sensor version in klipper, but this will be very interesting to see in action at some
point.
That's probably enough news for this "week", a week being an amount of time specified by
the distance since the last episode, I will see you next time and meanwhile go watch my
rambling episode on TPU, I'll even link it on the end screen.
I hear it's excellent to fall asleep to.
Anyway, see you next time, I've got something good coming up.