8-Observe Is an Eight-Shade AMS for Voron 3D Printers

Bambu Lab is undeniably the darling of at present’s proprietary shopper 3D printer market and the AMS (Computerized Materials System) is without doubt one of the main promoting factors. It lets customers print a number of filament supplies and colours on a single mannequin — 4 per AMS unit, chainable as much as 16. That may be very cool and everybody loves it, however Bambu Lab merchandise are proprietary. The place can open supply fanatics flip for one thing comparable? Within the close to future, they’ll be capable to reap the benefits of the 8-Observe modular automated filament changer.

8-Observe is an open supply design that may be tailored to nearly any 3D printer, however you will note it most carefully related to Voron. This can be controversial, however I take into account Voron to be the present king of the open supply 3D printing group. It stole that title from Prusa, which has been releasing underwhelming designs for a number of years now.

Prusa’s personal filament changer, the MMU (Multi-Materials Unit), has been fraught with issues, so the 8-Observe might enchantment to these customers. Voron customers have had the ERCF (Enraged Rabbit Carrot Feeder) to fulfill their multi-color and multi-filament wants, however its design is much like the Prusa MMU and tends to be simply as finicky. The 8-Observe makes an attempt to unravel a few of these issues with a modular system that customers can increase as wanted.

That modularity is good, as a result of some customers might solely need to swap between two supplies (main and assist, for instance), whereas others might want as many supplies as attainable. With 8-Observe, a consumer can merely add as many cassettes as they require. Regardless of the title, will probably be attainable to make use of greater than eight of them.

In his video introducing the 8-Observe, Armored_Turtle supplied some attention-grabbing particulars. For example, the extruders have servo-driven mechanisms to chunk down on the filament and improve grip when feeding — however can let go to scale back friction solely as soon as the filament reaches the new finish. Every module will also be scaled up or down to suit the specified printer. There’ll even be an non-compulsory lively drying heating ingredient for every cassette to fight moisture complications.