Does Creality uses V6-compatible nozzles?
If one of the stepper drivers blows up (it happens and since it blows/damages the PCB it can’t be repaired) can I swap in a generic motherboard without replacing other components like the screen?
So your suggestion would have been the Creality K2 or K1C?
Tell me.
Looked last week into it and concluded that BamubLab is still the best option.
Runner up was Creality. They are equally proprietary these days.
Name one that is competitive to the BambuLab P1S combo.
Keep in mind that the operator is an average Joe, who knows nothing about 3D-printers, with minimal training on the job to do the maintenance.
Competitive (explicitly) includes cost: If I need to pay $2k for a printer that works just as well as an $800 option it is not feasible (for a business) to spend this much more.
I love DIY.
At home, I run and build DIY printers but you can’t deploy them in a business/production. Why? As soon as there is a printer that isn’t it just works with easy (and documented) maintance procedures the business needs to hire not only a worker but a worker who knows 3D printers. That’s bad.
Printers like the Sovol SV08 and Biqu AMS (still not launched) aren’t just there yet.
Combined with the BambuLab pricing on the A1 mini and P1S it is pretty difficult to buy FOSS.
Prusa is close with the Core 1 but they don’t have an good AMS package for their printers (their MMU lacks a enclosure/easy to deploy setup). They propably know it but don’t have the answer avaible.
Equally on the econmics side it is difficult: The BambuLab P1S killed the (FOSS) market.
If I compare a 1150€ BambuLab X1C against the 1350€ Prusa Core One I would likley prefer the Prusa product/ecosystem. With the P1S it suddently is 700€ compared to 1350€ for a machine that will produce the exact same parts with a near identical cycletime, uptime and opperating/maintance cost. The decission in favor of BambuLab is easy.
What a bummer.
Had high hopes of them cooking it in secret and releasing it with the potential for 4th axis stuff with the robot arm in the future (software update) or at least the community could use it as an easy-to-purchase devkit to develop their own opensource software solution.
With this being just a concept and them BUYING their award (sic., paid to apply with a high success of “winning”) turns this into a nothing burger.
Pricing will be interesting. My bet is on $5k. Trying to position it against machines like the BCN3D sigmax or Ultimaker Factor S4.
what i expect:
Not really. 2FA or other “strong” authentification for requesting the auth-code is common.
The receiving registrar doesn’t care at all.
Likely the only check there is, is fraud protection and that is them protecting themself against payment frauds and not you/the domain.
Quality and construction? Cetus mk3
ease of use? definitly not a Cetus mk3
The black plastic tubes don’t block 100% UV so place it in a dark corner of a room.
Besides light, temperature can also cause degradation.
Oxygen might as well slowly oxidize the photosensitive catalyst.
It does expire.
I used resin that had expired for a whole year.
If it doesn’t print/cure properly it is “expired”. Shouldn’t cause any serious harm to the printer or additional safety hazard. So just go for it.
I still use them and the only reason why I haven’t updated it for a while: don’t fix it if itsn’t broken and nothing in the change logs read like I should update.
Even if you update: there is or will be (didn’t follow it that closely) the debugging mode or how they call it. Not even sure if the A1 even has this DRM sofar or only the X1 series.
BambuLab A1 mini without AMS it is $200. Toss in a hardened steel nozzle ($10 or so) and they are good for Carbon fiber materials.
Construction is pretty similar to the mentioned Cetus MK3 with the difference that BambuLab nailed the usability.
Hope to include printing, especially in metal.
Won’t happen. This requires a debinding oven which is a pretty nasty process involving acids/bases, high pressure and temperature.
There are products like (BASF) Forward AM 316L which can be mailed in for the debinding and sintering process.
I’ve seen some of the flap about Bambu and them closing up the software tool chain. I would like to avoid that sort of thing, for now, openness is better.
You don’t need to update as they are fine. with the current firmware, it is a non-issue.
Interesting.
DRM They limit who can talk what to their printers.
Most noticeably you can only send and start prints (g-code) with their own program over the network. Either bambu studio or a “cloud” gateway from BambuLab. It is no longer possible to do this from within Prusa- or OrcaSlicer.
my take:
~~ for the X1C they allow to install X1Plus firmware. The community asked for it. BambuLab allowed it back then and still does.~~ At the moment rooting an X1C isn’t possible. Either it is a broken promise (“We will give customers the choice to install third party firmware and root system at their own risk.”)or just a temporary issue.
BambuLab sad that this will come. Only now that they have done it, most people are starting to notice.
A few months ago, BambuLab talked about this change.
This shouldn’t catch anybody by surprise.
Will report back tomorrow.
One more information: It happens immediately after turning the printer on. the heater output doesn’t need to be enabled in the control interface or by g-code.
The far bigger issue is that reviewers don’t have the time to put 1000 hours and more on the printer. So a lot of them are just an extended unboxing experience.
Next issue is that nearly all of the influencers have no expertise at all. They are just talking heads and happen to know a thing or two about 3D-printing. This means they still have no clue at all about embedded/electronics and mechanical design and often make hillerious comments.
here is the schematic: https://github.com/Duet3D/Duet-2-Hardware/blob/master/Duet2/Duet2v1.06/Duet2_Schematic_v1.06.pdf
There is a 74HCT02 which can do up to 20mA so no pulldown resistor is required.
Not looking forward to cut traces on it for troubleshooting. It is an original board (no clone) so it should be exactly the parts in this schematic assuming the linked revision matches the board revision.
I would troubleshoot that hardware first
Was my first instinct as well as I didn’t do any firmware updates prior.
The continuity test doesn’t show a short and the test Duet recommended in one of the documentation was to remove the SD-card. If the issue stays it is a hardware issue. If it is “gone” it isn’t and me removing the SD-card causes this behavior to stop further indicating a software issue. Reading the schematic right now for the first time and I am schoked that there is no ESD-protection at all. Nothing. Just a straight connection from the mosfet to the output… what the hell where they thinking …
Would need to have an in-depth look at the schematic but likely I can’t probe the MOSFET gate voltages in the circuit.
What I could do is probe the signal/heater enable signal from the MCU.
Do you mean with filament slicer a filament cutter?