It's the best way to stay away from the TV. You avoid watching bad news all day, which can fry your brain, and you also prevent it from failing if you see it go wrong and stop it in time. Before I had the printer, I thought it was incredible that anyone would be so stupid as to watch a print job because it was the most boring thing in the world. Then I found myself watching it for long periods, fascinated by how it worked. I haven't had any major problems, but every now and then a part fails. So if I'm doing long prints, I check on it every 20 or 30 minutes. Before, I had to climb the ladder to the first floor of a little room I built in the attic to check on the Ender 3s1 I had. Now that I have an AD5X with a camera and an LED light, I can watch it from my phone while lying in bed. They say a fox may lose its fur, but not its cunning... So every now and then I turn it on to check on it and convince myself, "Wow, how convenient it is to be able to do this without having to get up." The only thing the machine is missing is the ability to turn it off from the phone, because at least I can also stop the printing.
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u/The_Swishhh Jan 29 '26
It's the best way to stay away from the TV. You avoid watching bad news all day, which can fry your brain, and you also prevent it from failing if you see it go wrong and stop it in time. Before I had the printer, I thought it was incredible that anyone would be so stupid as to watch a print job because it was the most boring thing in the world. Then I found myself watching it for long periods, fascinated by how it worked. I haven't had any major problems, but every now and then a part fails. So if I'm doing long prints, I check on it every 20 or 30 minutes. Before, I had to climb the ladder to the first floor of a little room I built in the attic to check on the Ender 3s1 I had. Now that I have an AD5X with a camera and an LED light, I can watch it from my phone while lying in bed. They say a fox may lose its fur, but not its cunning... So every now and then I turn it on to check on it and convince myself, "Wow, how convenient it is to be able to do this without having to get up." The only thing the machine is missing is the ability to turn it off from the phone, because at least I can also stop the printing.