TinyMakerWiFi - Roadmap

0.17 is out as a beta - the release that turned the model preview into a real 3D view and gave every resin its own recipe. The automatic self-update is on 0.16.2; the beta is one press away in the dashboard's Update → version picker (see the releases for what each version adds), and it becomes the automatic update once early testers confirm it.

Everything through the current automatic update 0.16.2 - on your printer now via System → Update:

• WiFi that reconnects on its own after a router dropout, and wireless model upload straight from PrusaSlicer.
• Power-loss resume - after an outage the printer offers to pick the print back up from where it stopped, or to safely lift the plate off a stuck print, and you can answer that from your phone. Field-tested with real power cuts.
• A print-aware screen saver - dims the idle screen, moves the printer name and IP around (no burn-in), and shows live progress while printing.
• Grouped settings and a Statistics screen (print hours, UV time, boot info), with Update kept visible and badged when something is available.
• Long jobs never freeze a screen - unpacking, flashing and card work all report progress, and every open dashboard sees the same thing.
• "Why did it restart?" diagnostics after an unexpected reboot, including the layer it was on.
• Light and dark themes across the dashboard.

Full version-by-version history: changelog.

Out now on the beta channel (Update → version picker), being proven before the automatic self-update picks it up:

• Named resin profiles - a profile is the whole recipe for one resin: exposures, base layers, all four lift settings, density and layer height. Switching resin is one press instead of ten fields. Four profiles are built into the firmware - two resins at both layer heights - so the picker is never empty, and more install from the published library.
• Resin left, by weight - weigh the vat once empty, then weigh it full, and the printer works out the millilitres left instead of assuming a full vat. A per-resin calibration makes the "will this print fit" warning a measured number - and the two built-in Fast profiles ship already calibrated from weighed prints, so the number is right before you ever put the vat on a scale.
• The model preview is a real 3D view - it used to stack 36 slices like pancakes, which made anything detailed unreadable. Now the printer's own layers become a surface drawn by your browser's GPU, at the printer's native resolution and with every layer of the model. A slider cuts the model at any height.
• The growing print is visible in every browser, not only in the one that opened Preview first - open the dashboard on a second phone mid-print and the model is already there.
• Print time per model in the card list, recomputed from the resin profile in force - switch profile and every row updates.
• Exposure in tenths of a second, which fast resins need, with the print-time impact shown before you save.
• Flat-print guard - a clear warning when the slicer's layer height is not the one the printer is set to, instead of prints silently coming out flat.
• Marking a defect on the model - tap the preview where a print went wrong and the mark carries the height in millimetres, the layer number and the build, so a report says where it failed rather than "it failed".
• The printer says when a file is being sent to it, so a phone that looks idle is no longer a mystery, and a push message tells you when power came back.
• The browser slicer can live on the SD card, so a printer with no internet still slices, and the dashboard checks for a newer module by itself.
• The browser slicer places the part for you - one Fit button, with two switches for how: lay it on its widest side or search for the tilt that needs the fewest supports (the PrusaSlicer way), and keep your size or make it as large as the plate allows. Lay flat, Flip, Tilt and Rotate are there when you want to decide yourself, then six settings for supports, strength, placement, tip, raft and smoothing. The raft is counted in layers (2, 3 or 6; default 3), because layers are what decide whether the pad grips. Switched on under Settings → Network; it becomes the default with 1.0.0.
• The plate knows where the top and the bottom are - the manual jog stops at the ceiling instead of grinding into it, touching the endstop is a homing ("Plate is home"), and a pause lift asked for at the ceiling no longer drives the plate down into the part.
• Adjustable pause lift height for inspecting a print, and a dry run that no longer sends the plate to the ceiling.
• Everyday polish - newest model on top of the card list, actions that appear under the mouse on a desktop, a wider preview window, buttons that show they were pressed, and a 24-hour clock.

Under the hood: about 60 KB of flash reclaimed, checkpoints written once per layer instead of twice (kinder to the card), writes accepted only from the printer's own dashboard, and a self-update that checks it is really talking to GitHub before it flashes anything.

Right now the focus is the beta window: collecting feedback from early testers and fixing what turns up. Fixes ship as 0.17.x betas - see the releases for what each one fixes - until the beta channel is quiet.

Once it has run clean for a while, 0.17.x is promoted to the automatic self-update channel.

• TinyMaker Connect - a community platform for sharing print-ready models straight to the printer.

1.0.0 is 0.17, promoted once it has proven itself: the beta channel quiet with no open regressions, clean multi-hour print soak tests, a repeated full code review, and the browser slicer on by default for everyone.

Once 1.0.0 lands, the community will help shape what comes next - you'll be able to vote on priorities in the Facebook group. The poll sets the direction; final calls on what actually ships stay with the maintainer.

Already planned for 1.1:

• Several remembered WiFi networks - take the printer to a show, a workshop or a friend's place and back home without setting WiFi up again.
• An “erase everything for a new owner” reset - the WiFi password and every stored key go too, before you sell or lend the printer.
• A trash bin for models - deleting becomes instant, and the wrong model comes back with one press.
• The last print, marked in the SD list - which model ran last and how it ended.
• Hidden card entries explained - a damaged or oddly named model can still be found and removed.
• A real Stop while slicing in the browser.
• Sharper thin supports - the slicer stops sending grey levels too dim to cure the resin, a threshold measured on this printer.
• A faster 3D view - drawn only when something actually changes, so turning and cutting the model stays quick, and closed cut faces in the slicer view.
• A theme switch that can follow your system - light, dark, or the same light or dark your phone or computer is set to.
• Sharing resin profiles through TinyMaker Connect.
• A web flasher that retries slower when the first attempt times out.
• More security hardening of the dashboard.

Got an idea? The vote opens with 1.0.0 - and the feedback form in the dashboard is open any time.

Small fixes, beta testing and bug reports are all first-class help. See CONTRIBUTING.md, or just send a note through the feedback form in the dashboard - 30 seconds, no account.