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Topic: Enhancing your printer with MakerX

Hello 3D Printers!

We would love some feedback on our new hardware enhancement for 3D printing. We're preparing to build MakerX to help people with their printer interactions. More information about our design is at http://makerx.io

You can give use some feedback with our 5 minute survey.
https://t.co/W50RQVHyht

We would love to hear your thoughts and opinions to help us understand how we can best serve the communities.

Thanks for your time and happy printing!

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Re: Enhancing your printer with MakerX

Are you going to offer some kind of guaranty about it being able to stop a fire?

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Re: Enhancing your printer with MakerX

Kronikabuse wrote:

Are you going to offer some kind of guaranty about it being able to stop a fire?

+1
Safety is priority 1 and unaccompanied printing should not be promoted without proper fail safes.

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Re: Enhancing your printer with MakerX

So its a Raspberry Pi with Octoprint?

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Re: Enhancing your printer with MakerX

big, fat NOPE from me. Sorry, but I do not leave my printer running unattended - ever.

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Re: Enhancing your printer with MakerX

heartless wrote:

big, fat NOPE from me. Sorry, but I do not leave my printer running unattended - ever.

Have you never printed things that take more than a day to print? I valid concern, nonetheless.

We want to you to be able to keep an eye on the print without sitting next to it though. You might just want to stream from your closet because it's noisy or simply don't wish to leave computer permanently connected to your 3D printer for all your printing needs.

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Re: Enhancing your printer with MakerX

elmoret wrote:

So its a Raspberry Pi with Octoprint?

It will be running with an Omega from Onion. smile

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Re: Enhancing your printer with MakerX

AZERATE wrote:
Kronikabuse wrote:

Are you going to offer some kind of guaranty about it being able to stop a fire?

+1
Safety is priority 1 and unaccompanied printing should not be promoted without proper fail safes.

We want to offer the ability to monitor from another room, but we are not suggesting you leave it completely unattended. A power cut or smoke detector are an option for us to include in the design though.

9 Reply by MakerX (edited by MakerX 2016-02-26 17:31:40)

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Re: Enhancing your printer with MakerX

Hey everyone!

We've decided to give away a Delta 3d printer if we get over 200 people to fill out our survey.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1NBrk3h … 8/viewform

Leave your email at the bottom to enter to win. Share it with your friends to increase the chance of the give-away!

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Re: Enhancing your printer with MakerX

MakerX wrote:
heartless wrote:

big, fat NOPE from me. Sorry, but I do not leave my printer running unattended - ever.

Have you never printed things that take more than a day to print? I valid concern, nonetheless.

We want to you to be able to keep an eye on the print without sitting next to it though. You might just want to stream from your closet because it's noisy or simply don't wish to leave computer permanently connected to your 3D printer for all your printing needs.

Large pieces can be cut into smaller, more manageable ones - it isn't that difficult.

Again, I will NEVER leave my printers running unattended - even being in another room, not paying attention for as few as a couple of minutes, can result in devastating consequences. It HAS happened.

I am sorry, but I will not promote, nor advocate, unattended printing.

SD4 #1 & #2 - Lawsy carriages, E3D v6, Rumba controller board, mirror bed plate, X motor fan, upgraded PSU & Mica bed heater
SD4 #3 - in the works ~ Folgertech FT-5, rev 1
Printit Industries Beta Tester - Horizon H1