A revolutionary blend of cloud service and a hardware controller by Czech engineers brings an open source solution for remote management and monitoring of 3D printers to everyone’s doorstep.
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A Czech developer company Fragaria introduces Karmen: a solution to make common 3D printers “smarter”, to improve their accessibility and to make their usage a lot more convenient.
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Karmen users can manage their 3D print jobs from anywhere in the world—run them, pause them, cancel them or just merely watch their progress layer by layer.
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It doesn’t matter where the printer operator resides: being it in the same room, at work or on the other side of the globe. Up until now, printer operators had to be physically present at the very place where print happens as most printers simply […]
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Yeah, wow, this is SO revolutionary. Before Karmen, people only had access to the Raspberry Pi and Octoprint, which allowed you to do the exact same thing for less money and without being tied to a paid cloud service with an unknown lifespan.
“Up until now, printer operators had to be physically present at the very place where print happens…”
No, they didn’t.
Karmen isn’t doing anything new, it’s just doing it more expensively.
Sure, it’s not the only option and some people can play around with Octoprint and Raspberry Pi to get almost the same results, even connecting the camera anyone can buy… But not everyone is actually capable to do that (or willing to spend the time).
Personally I welcome this plug-and-play type of solution, because it looks super easy to install and use, and I’ll rather use my time to fine tune my models and design, than to figure out how to make Karmen by myself.. 🙂