RFID Trick your printer! Custom RFID tags? #3dprinting #rfid #bambulab #polarfilament

We don't need to try to pass other filaments as Bambu filaments. We want to be able to label filaments as what they are (even generic) with the appropriate profile info on an rfid tag to work with the system we want to use ‐ Bambu AMS and printer. Yes, it's a matter of convenience. I bought Bambu for this extra tech and would like to use it to its fullest potential. Bambu: Please help us work with your system.

People in comments praising open source but then also saying bamboo labs is great makes me wanna throw-up 😂

Would love this feature to make the industry more sustainable and better the user experience

Or, stop using their product until they get their act together and allow reprogramming of the RFID chips

This neeeeeds to happen

“The apple of 3d printing” is sort of a deserved title. They came along a few years ago and just said “here’s a fairly affordable 3d printer that you don’t have to tinker with at all, it just works darn near flawlessly”, and with that they earned their place in the market.
Sure, that comes with some proprietary tech, but I respect that because they need to secure their product and recoup the years or R&D and integration cost.

Nice code name kids next door reference.

thats why you shouldnt support closed source stuff

@banbulab

Just research HP printer ink subscription and you will learn just how abusive something like authentication for 3d filament can be. Profit over people

Yes!

Biggest reason I would switch from bambulab is if another manufacturer has this open rfid option. Please do the right thing.

People need to understand this is a selling point of the element. It just works. It’s good for a beginner and it’s helpful for other people but in reality it’s not that critical and you’re going to be spending a lot more time with them if they make it open source trying to make it work, then it will be worth.

This would be so cool i wanna learn to use it

have you been able to figure out the RFID settings per spool. The things are stupid easy to clone, but buying one of every spool for the rfid tags defeats the purpose.

Come in bamboo😊

I am just getting into 3D printing and open source repairable/interchangeable parts is hugely important to me and I would love to see the whole production industry move towards that.

I wish there was an open standard that could be used by all printer/filament manufacturers...

@Bambulab

I see people mentioning swapping out the chip etc but I just dont get why? What benefit does it have exactly? If I'm using esun pla+ I dont want it to be recognized as bambu pla basic? Every filament has a unique config so I don't get it..

It would be a great idea, I can’t wait to see if an open standard for rfid filament tags can be established, of if Bambu labs will share their method with others so that material information can be better tracked to allow better material profiles to be more easily implemented regardless of the brand

So, a company decided to make proprietary BS in a product that's made for and marketed to Hacker types?
😂
Some people are so dumb.

Bambu Labs wants total control, like the country they are made in.

Make a new company and do it instead of helping out some random company

I would love rewritable RFID Tags :)

Kinda useless if you use refill filament from Bambu lab because they come with their own rfid chip

It would be great if you did it without them as proof of concept. Plus aren’t they kinda doing the shaving con. “You can only use our blades “

I just bought a 3d printer. The whole mess with the unhackable rfid tags made me choose someone else. I just had a mess with an HP printer, so I was bothered by proprietary print stuff.
Opening the procedure of making these tags probably would have made this a pro Bambu decision point rather than an anti Bambu point. In other words they lost a sale over this crap.

@bambulab

Cut out the corporation and make an open-source program that works with an rfid reader and tags. Part of their point is to have it so you have to buy their filament. Take that power from them.

They need to go open source. Idk why they think being closed source is a good thing.

it's tricky to allow 3rd parties to program RFID tags for their filament without getting a bunch of cheap, low-quality product posing as genuine bambu filament.

@BambuLab

Honestly I feel like the real reason is they want to dothis is DRM on their stuff eventually. It is one of the reasons why I haven't fully committed to a Bambu Labs printer even though odds are it's going to be the next upgrade I make. It'd be nice to see them open source the software to make RFID tags and support right to repair.

Keeping this bumped because it is important to me. There are people who exclusively use Bambu filament and making the RFID system open source is not going to dissuade them from continuing to purchase Bambu filament. It just helps everyone else out without any damage that I can see to the brand. On the other hand, if they continue to gatekeep innovations like this, it will encourage users to think about another brand for their next printer. As a newcomer, Bambu's printers have been amazing. So easy to use. But as I gain experience, I'll be tempted to look at other brands for future purchases if they don't change direction.

All unite it only keeps the waste down and make our 3d world go bigger talk also to polymaker work all togheter mean why not a printer is not complete without a good fillament with the right settings
failure is waste money and fustration

I think this misses the point of the tag. It's meant to be for bambulab-certified filament so they can guarantee you're using the right settings. If companies start copying the tags, it'll be all over the place. You can already set any setting you want easily on the slicer, it's not much of an aid.

yall are delusional. they don't it so you buy their spools. if they played ball with this, people would buy less filament from them. they aren't going to do that

Can you please make this happen Bambu!

do you have a repository for the content of the different tags? so we can clone it to mifare labels on our own?

Bambu doesn't care. They're closed source, their printers are cheap because they lock you into their ecosystem.

Has anyone tried the incense filament?

THIS WOULD BE AMAZING
come on bambu labs work with us

No joke! I'm so disappointed with bambo because Creatly's NFC cards are easy to write to using the smartphone app. That would make using them much easier.

They put drying information in their RFID as well. Clever clogs those Bambu engineers

@Bambu Lab - Support this!

Their refusal to cooperate here is akin to the evil printer ink industry. It will backfire on them once a reliable exploit is identified.

I personally would like to see this done, but I can understand why BambuLab does this. They are in the land of clones and as soon as they opened the RFID, they would loose a significant amount of revenue due to everybody advertising they have Bambulab compliant RFID tags on their filament.