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  • 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.









  • 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.






  • 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.