Bambu 3D printers went rogue and started printing overnight

[thewayne]

The robot apocalypse is upon us!

It appears that the company had a cloud outage and it confused the printers, some tried to download their last job and reprint it, which was sometimes on top of the already-printed job, others just started slamming their print mechanism against its movement stops, potentially causing damage.

Were I in the market for a 3D printer, I think I would prioritize NO CLOUD DEPENDENCY. Granted, you sometimes start jobs to print overnight, I'd definitely power it off when not in use.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23064592/bambu-print-asleep-cloud-outage

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/08/16/2128240/bambus-3d-printers-started-printing-while-owners-were-asleep

Comments

[disneydream06]

YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs, Jon

[silveradept]

Cloud service 3D printers violate the "we do not give WiFi to fire, nor fire to WiFi" rules. Also, why would you need or want something that's cloud-connected as a 3D printer? LAN should be enough for most cases.