Bring Bluetooth and Wifi Connectivity to Legacy 3d Printers
Creality WiFi Box
Tech And Tools – Creality WiFi Box 2
Need a boost, WiFi or Bluetooth connection for your Creality printer? How about the Creality WiFi Cloud Box 2.0?
For those of you who are using using WiFi or Bluetooth connectivity, especially the older 3D printers, the concept of ‘Apple AirPrint’ or printing over WiFi is now a luxury. Unless, of course, you want to take advantage of Air Print or prefer to print from your desk chair by connecting to a WiFi/Bluetooth ready 3d printer. It’s simple if the hardware and software are compatible, as is often the case. You can easily sit down, go through your sketch or drawing export, and then send those slices directly to a printer via WiFi/Bluetooth. Finally, you can kick off the print job using WiFi/Bluetooth slicer software.
Creality Wifi Box
Before I discuss the best-case scenario and the benefits of WiFi for legacy Creality devices, let’s first talk about the old-school models. For those of us who still use old printers, MicroSD cards, USB 2 cords, and swap nano SD cards and USB sticks, this information will be relevant. Go this route, If you’re constantly switching USB dongles and nano cards and dealing with manual process, then this if for you. It may be old school, but it work.
Please note that I have not yet set up the Creality WiFi Box so there is no Wifi available for the legacy Creality devices I own. We will get something up here shortly, once the rebuild is complete which should take about a week or two to wrap up.
Rebuild pt 1 – involves installing a new drive, assembling, and finding the back plate. Currently, we are reconnecting the new assembly housing, heating element, etc. rebuild part 2* did start the today this article was posted. *Article was updated, so that we could share a link to the second article.
Finally, we will cover Creality solutions for older 3D printers such as the Creality Ender 3 Neo Max.
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