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3D printer nightmare fuel: Bambu X1C and P1P started printing while owners were asleep
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Really? "nightmare fuel"?
Some people have a really low bar for considering something a nightmare.
There may have been a nonzero chance of it starting a fire, since the article describes some printers as "tearing themselves apart", which could conceivably have included wiring damage or hot things landing outside the printer on flammable material.
Also, since it seems to have been printing copies of previous prints, um, well . . . some people do print sex toys. I can see how explaining that one to your eight-year-old or your mother-in-law, if they find it first, could be considered a nightmare.
Nonzero, but realistically, what chain of fuckups would have to happen to actually cause a fire here? Maybe if you left a tin of hairspray inside the chamber along with some paper or rags or something, even then, you'd be insanely unlucky.
The 'tearing itself apart' seems to refer to s simple collision, printing when there's an object on the bed. Obviously not good, but it was just a normal print otherwise.
Yeah it could be printing something private, but if you're using a liklihood * severity assessment, it's hardly worth mentioning.
Obviously not arguing that this is a good thing, but I think people are being a bit hyperbolic. Fire risk should be no greater than during any other print. Damage to the printer would be a concern, but usually the printed part will simply dislodge. I don't know if it has any kind of crash protection?
So yeah its bad, and they need to do more to prevent this. Equally, it's a rare issue with a pretty low risk profile, that should be easy for consumers to mitigate against by simply switching it off
We’ll, considering things can heat up quite a bit with printers, I wouldn’t want mine turning on randomly. I’d rather heat my house using central heating, thank you.