UMB OUT port: what is it for?

[coduy 0]

hi there, a newbie here. I can't find any information about UMB OUT port at the back of S5 printer. I checked the manual and there's no information. Anyone know what is it for? 

 

Many thanks! 

[Smithy 1,144]

It is a bus system for future addons. We will see what will come in the future to extend the possibilities....

 

[coduy 0]

2 hours ago, Smithy said:

It is a bus system for future addons. We will see what will come in the future to extend the possibilities....

 

 

Many thanks for a quick response. So at this moment there's nothing we can do with this port? It's there just in case some future firmware updates will allow to use it in some way or another? 

[Smithy 1,144]

Correct, I guess there will be some hardware additions I the future, but I have no idea what it could be.

[nallath 1,123]

Internally we dubbed it the "UltiBus". No idea if that's going to survive any form of sensible copywriter (but probably not).

[Smithy 1,144]

30 minutes ago, nallath said:

"UltiBus"

I know the meaning of "bus" in this situation, but I couldn't resist, it sounds like the vehicle which picks up Ultimaker employees to get to work every day like in very big companies ? 

[nallath 1,123]

14 minutes ago, Smithy said:

I know the meaning of "bus" in this situation, but I couldn't resist, it sounds like the vehicle which picks up Ultimaker employees to get to work every day like in very big companies ? 

We had a van at some point that we also dubbed the ulti-bus. But even now, Ultimaker isn't big enough to have those kind of facilities ?

[Dim3nsioneer 557]

11 minutes ago, nallath said:

We had a van at some point that we also dubbed the ulti-bus. But even now, Ultimaker isn't big enough to have those kind of facilities ?

 

...and the train station is close... ?

[bpompea 0]

I would imagine that there will be a material station and air manager for the S3 eventually... Pure speculation though! 

[uncle_bob 21]

Hi

 

The OP was looking at an S5. We now know the port plays with the Air Manager. If the S3 has the same sort of port then maybe someday there will be add ons for it as well. There is no way to know until Ultimaker sends out a product announcement. They don't seem to be big on the "never ending hints" game. 

 

Bob

[GoguyT3d 8]

I can't wait, I have an S3 and the port too but I've wanted the air manager since I BOUGHT THE THING 2 YEARS AGO