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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