Adding End of filament sensor to UM3

[Swissengineer 25]

Hello every one,

I was thinking about adding an optical sensor in the feeder of the UM3. I would like the sensor to pause a print. But I can't find the schematics for the UM3 Pcb to know if is there any pin I can use... Isn't supposed to be open source?

Thanks for the help

[Labern 774]

Yes it is but UM typically release the files later. Pre UM3 the files were released 6-8 months after the printer release.

I have heard somewhere that the UM3 source files will be 1 year after the printer release.

[SandervG 1,521]

That is correct. For the Ultimaker 3, files will be released 12 months after the Ultimaker 3 was released. So October 18th. Luckily, that is not that far into the future. The reason for this being, we want this period of time to match the investment we made developing the machine.

[SandervG 1,521]

Hi @swissengineer, here you go

[Swissengineer 25]

Hi @swissengineer, here you go

Thanks !!

[NikThemechanic 0]

@Swissengineer Did you manage to make any progress with this?

[Swissengineer 25]

Not yet, did not have the time, but I have plenty of ideas for how to do it

[Swissengineer 25]

Actually , I took a look at the schematics, but I lost patience to try to understand the ulti schematics all in black and white...