Long story short, I am not mechanically inclined. I want my shit to just work. Somehow I decided I would order the MK4S upgrade kit for the prusa MK4 that I have. It took me about 12 hours but I did the upgrade and turned it on only to find it wouldn’t boot with a power panic error message.

I tracked it down to a cable that got disconnected during all the upgrading, and when I went to push it back onto the board it bent the pins. When I tried to straighten them out the pens broke off and now I have a $2,000 paperweight on my desk.

EDIT: Ok, i am now rested and calmed down, and no i will not be buying an X1C from the CCP Bambu. Support was indeed super cool, and i’d need to spend another 120 for a new xbuddy since mistakes like this are not under warranty. However, my dad is a lifelong hardware electronics pro, and he seemed to indicate this should be no sweat to fix, so we shall commit mad science before i just buy another one.

  • reddwarf@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Thanks for that bit of laughter! 😂
    You just described the Buggy Whip metaphor pretty darn good.

    Guess you liked the matrix printers (or perhaps type writers?) better then these newfangled laser printers with their fancy ‘lasers’ and whatnots? Not a real question, just a fun tease at your expense.