Subj : Did your 3D printer start printing all on its own? This could be
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Aug 23 2023 12:45:03

Did your 3D printer start printing all on its own? This could be why

Date:
Wed, 23 Aug 2023 11:34:56 +0000

Description:
Bambu X1C and P1P printers could be keeping you up at night in more ways than 
one, and its all thanks to the cloud.

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Temporary disruptions to printer manufacturer Bambus Bambulab cloud service 
caused a 3D printer uprising on Tuesday, August 15, 2023. 

Thus far, the insurgents have done little damage: The Verge originally 
reported that users woke up to failed prints, or a second copy of a previous 
print. 

So far, so bizarre. But some of the affected Bambu P1P and X1C printers found 
their newfound sentience too much to bear, smacking [themselves] apart while 
trying to print a second object atop the one originally queued by the owner. 
I believe I speak for me when I say: mood. Okay, you got us 

Although this isnt frightening in a science-fiction, Maximum Overdrive kind 
of way, it is concerning in the sense that this did really happen, and Bambu 
thinks it knows why. 

It claimed in a blog post that, while investigations were ongoing, the freak 
event was likely the result of two outages on the 15th, meaning that affected 
cloud servers couldnt confirm whether jobs had been completed, keeping them 
trapped there. and resolving to simply queuing the jobs again, and again, and 
again. 

Bambu might be accept[ing] full responsibility on this, but any appliance 
that can run at blazing temperatures and spring to life on its own should 
absolutely arouse suspicion, no matter what thermal runaway protections are 
in place. 

It is difficult to have a cloud service 100% reliable all the time, writes 
the Bambu PR droid, but we should at least have designed the system more 
carefully to avoid such embarrassing consequences. Embarrassing - terrifying 
- same difference. Read more 

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Our R&D and Cloud Networking teams are working tirelessly to identify the 
root cause and ensure that this never happens again. We are planning to 
implement changes, such as additional verifications before a print is 
started, to prevent future issues. 

(The root cause is, of course, the pathological need for tech companies to 
connect everything to the internet. As TechRadar Pros resident cloud urchin, 
I wholeheartedly recommend taking outdoors any appliance superfluously 
connected to the internet, crushing it under the weight of the tyres of a 
large vehicle, and running a connection test afterwards, just to be sure.) 
Weve also listed the best cloud analytics software right now 

Via Ars Technica



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https://www.techradar.com/pro/did-your-3d-printer-start-printing-all-on-its-ow
n-this-could-be-why


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