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PrintPanel™

PrintPanel is a family of compact touchscreen displays designed to put useful information exactly where you need it. Built around affordable maker hardware, each edition is purpose-built for a specific job while sharing a common setup, firmware, and web installer experience.

Featured editions

Printer status, local weather, and nearby aircraft at a glance.

PrintPanel now includes focused smart displays for Bambu Lab printers local weather, and nearby aircraft. Each edition shares the same ESP32 CYD hardware, browser-based firmware installer, Wi-Fi setup flow, and local web configuration.

Bambu Lab Weather Flight Radar ESP32 CYD Active Builds
Product family

PrintPanel Editions

Each PrintPanel edition uses the same idea: a simple touchscreen panel, a focused interface, and a setup flow designed for real-world use.

Available Now Stable Firmware

PrintPanel for Bambu Lab

Built for Bambu Lab printer owners who want a dedicated, glanceable display for printer status, AMS information, and quick system access.

  • Live printer dashboard
  • AMS slot colors and multi-AMS navigation
  • Improv WiFi setup and WiFiManager fallback
  • Browser-based firmware installation
  • Local configuration and factory reset tools
Available Now Weather Alpha

PrintPanel Weather

A local tabletop weather display powered by Open-Meteo. It shows current conditions, weather icons, a 5-day forecast, and useful details without requiring an API key.

  • Current conditions with icon-based dashboard
  • 5-day forecast with compact weather icons
  • Open-Meteo weather source with no API key required
  • Location, units, and refresh settings through local web config
  • Built on the same ESP32 CYD PrintPanel platform
Available Now Stable Firmware

PrintPanel Flight Radar

A dedicated nearby-aircraft display with an interactive full-page radar, live aircraft details, and resilient community ADS-B data.

  • Persistent selectable radar with enlarged touch targets
  • Nearby-aircraft dashboard and detail view
  • Non-blocking background updates
  • ADSB.lol with a rate-capped Airplanes.live fallback
  • No subscription or embedded API key required
Shared platform

Built for practical use

PrintPanel is designed around a common hardware and software foundation, making it easier to support, update, and expand over time.

Touchscreen UI

Compact LVGL-based screens designed for quick information at a glance.

Web Installer

Install firmware directly from a browser using supported ESP32 hardware.

Wi-Fi Setup

Improv WiFi setup over USB with a fallback local access point when needed.

Local Config

Each device hosts its own simple configuration page on your local network.

Expandable

New editions can reuse the same display platform, web installer, and shared icon-font system.

Maker Friendly

Designed for hobbyists, small shops, and practical everyday display projects.

Simple setup

From flash to finished

The goal is to make each PrintPanel edition easy to install, configure, reset, and reuse without requiring users to open the Arduino IDE.

1

Flash

Use the web installer to flash the correct PrintPanel firmware.

2

Connect Wi-Fi

Set Wi-Fi credentials through the browser or fallback setup access point.

3

Configure

Enter the settings needed for that edition, such as printer details or weather location.

4

Use

Mount the panel where it is useful and glance at live information anytime.