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Filament dry box that texts me when it's soggy

A heated, sealed box with an SHT31 sensor, reporting humidity per spool to Home Assistant.

Build time
4 h
Cost
$26
Filament
180 g
Difficulty
Easy
A sealed plastic box with spools inside and a small sensor board on the lid

Why a dry box

Wet filament prints stringy and brittle. A sensor that tells me the humidity inside the box beats guessing.

The sensor

An SHT31 over I2C is enough. ESPHome does the rest.

humidity.yaml
sensor:
  - platform: sht3xd
    temperature:
      name: Dry Box Temperature
    humidity:
      name: Dry Box Humidity
    update_interval: 60s

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