PrintSphere Is a Handy and Affordable DIY Status Display for Bambu Lab 3D Printers
If you have a Bambu Lab 3D printer, PrintSphere seems like a great way to keep tabs on it.
Bambu Lab has a smartphone app, called Bambu Handy, which gives you control over your Bambu Lab 3D printers and lets you monitor the status of each. That is handy, indeed. But if you’re anything like me, you don’t like pulling your phone out of your pocket just to see something simple, like the progression of a print job. For people like us, the DIY PrintSphere monitor seems like a great solution.
PrintSphere is a small desktop and pocket-friendly gadget intended specifically to give you visual status updates on a Bambu Lab 3D printer. Whether you have an A, P, X, or H series model, PrintSphere should work as long as it is on the same network as the printer.
The status display looks really nice and provides only the useful information to keep things clean. That includes printer status (printing, idle, error, etc.), print job progress (percentage and circular bar), bed temperature, hot end temperature, current layer of the layer total, job file name, and time remaining. That interface is built on LVGL and its accent color even changes based on the status. If there is an error, for example, the progress bar will turn red.
The only hardware necessary to make a PrintSphere is a Waveshare ESP32-S3 1.75” AMOLED Touch Display development board and an AXP2101-based power management board. Those go into a nice, simple 3D-printed case that folds up like a makeup compact.
So if you have a Bambu Lab 3D printer, PrintSphere seems like a great way to keep tabs on it.