Lightweight Nozzle Camera Interest/Feedback?  

Lightweight Nozzle Camera Interest/Feedback?

Hi All,

I am new to 3D printing but recently bought a MINI+.  I am two weeks into it and loving it.  I have also recently joined the team at The Spaghetti Detective.

We have discussed internally updating our ML to better serve users by allowing for a nozzle cam model.  This would be much more effective at smart bed leveling for every print, detecting and correcting under/over-extrusion, and catching spaghetti and layer shifts faster.  We have even been developing some vision AI to that effect.

The Spaghetti Detective is and will remain open source so you would always be able to run this on your own private server but we do monetize on our cloud version to recoup the more expensive GPU costs as well as continue growing capabilities for our users and the community.

My question for this community: Would you be willing to add the extra weight to your print head (lightweight small camera, lighting diodes, and printed mount) if it was inexpensive ($20-$25) to purchase the camera/diodes and necessary cables bundled, and it gave you the benefits as mentioned above?  

If there is sufficient interest, we would be happy to do the leg work to get a contract manufacturer to make the camera/diode bundle and sell at a reasonable price.  Posting here before validating with the broader community because I feel like this community especially values and helps open source projects.

Thanks in advance for any feedback you are willing to give!