BambuScribe, a software designed to safely turn your Bambu Lab printer into a pen plotter without slicer hacks. Stream G-code directly over your network, ensuring your hotend stays cold and extruder gears stay off.
As a prize for your great work, look out for a bonus prize in the mail :)
1h 59m 30s logged
Wohaaa, so this was hectic… I had only had a very, very limited time to complete this update as my periodic tests start from tomorrow (hence the very minor bump). So this update was more or less a backend one where I just tied some loose ends here and there and added some little cosmetic updates (like a clear button for the images). My intention was also to add multi-color printing, but the time I had was far too little for that, but not for a lack of trying :( Anyway, I won’t be shipping it right now as it was just a minor update, so see you after my exams when I come around to pushing v1.2.0!!
So long story short, I built BambuScribe; an open-source suite that safely turns your Bambu Lab printer into a precision 2D plotter without any slicer hacks!
As for what was challenging, a considerable amount of time was spent on failed plots and fighting the printer. Getting the untethered plotting working was a massive battle because the printer flat-out refused to acknowledge that I sent it a .3mf file, so that was really something ;(
But I am super proud of hunting down those bugs and optimizing the z-hops and travel so it now does everything at a nice speed and without random pauses! I am pushing v1.1.0 right now, and this will be my first ship of Stardance!!! ;D
Anywho, if you want to test it out, you’ll need a Bambu A1 or A1 Mini, a 3D-printed pen mount (linked in the readme), and to enable LAN Only & Developer Mode in the printer. Just make sure your pen sits lower than the nozzle, set the bounding box, and flip your build plate so you don’t ruin your coating!
(and BTW I got my A1 mini from hack club [through flavor town] :D)
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So I spent the rest of the time hunting and fixing bugs in the PR (which were found by coderabbitai), this was the first PR and now we are at v1.1.0 ;D
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Andd now I have optimized the zhops and the overall travel so it now does everything at the set speed and not just the pen strokes (and increased the max movement speed)
[and I am pushing the V1.1.0 right now so this will me my first ship of Stardance!!!]]
5h 47m 32s logged
So long story short, I forgot that I had to write a devlog ;( anywho, here it is, so I spent some time building Bambuscribe, you can understand what it does from the Readme and description (do note that the time logged is not the actual time I spent as a considerable amount was also spent on failed plots and fighting the printer and reading docs…) as for what I did now, after the v1.0.0 I have some change on my radar, the first one was to make the ploting autonomous and uploaded to the printer, that is what I just added, enjoy! (as for the challenges the printer refused to acknowledge that I sent it somthing, so that was really something)
