Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect

Post by harrall » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 4:34 PM UTC

esskay wrote: post #187

harrall wrote: post #51

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Well Prusa was open and did compete. But for 3D printers that worked out of the box under $1000, Prusa had no real competition itself. The Mk3 came out in 2017 and I swear Prusa just sat on their laurels. I was a Mk3s+ owner (well, still am) and was pretty disappointed how little improved with the Mk4. Bambu’s competition was Prusa and they clearly strived to improve over what Prusa had accomplished.

The problem is even with Prusas recent efforts to catch up with the Core One, it's expensive, and they still dont have a viable answer to the AMS. The MMU is still a hot mess, requires tinkering, isn't stable and overall just doesnt come close to an out of the box experience. They still seem to be thinking the primary audience of 3d printers is people who tinker. It's not been that way for a long time. People just wa…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 4:42 PM UTC

teruakohatu wrote: post #134

ThouYS wrote: post #117

I wish Prusa weren't asleep at the wheel, then we would have bought a core one (that is, the hypothetical variant with large build volume and same quality as bambulab). Instead, we bought a P1S, which is, technically speaking, a fantastic machine.

Not really asleep at the wheel. More like they invented the wheel, produced the open source slicer (a fork of the original slicer but vastly improved), which was then used by Bambu who could manufacture a printer for less in China rather than in the EU. Prusa themselves run 600 printers. They are commercial grade. If I was using a printer for commercial design or prototyping I would go with Prusa. Not only because I…

Post by kube-system » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 4:50 PM UTC

floating-io wrote: post #92

franga2000 wrote: post #70

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I can't imagine the printers being open source or not mattering for that, nor can I see any reasonable government banning printing of specific things. If something is illegal to own or manufacture, that already applies to 3D printers just as much as it did to CNC machines or any other method.

Are you so sure? https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A2228?utm_ca... Not quite the same, and hopefully likely to fail if it hasn't already, but it shows that interest exists in regulating 3D printers. When enough interest exists, things will happen. JMHO.

Post by flutas » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 4:58 PM UTC

nullc wrote: post #258

jdietrich wrote: post #177

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Bambu Lab have been quite explicit about this. Their consumer-grade printers rely on a cloud service; for people who want or need printing over a private LAN, they offer the X1E. https://store.bambulab.com/products/x1e

That hasn't been true for years, the regular X1C has an officially supported lan mode and works fine without any of the cloud stuff. (I believe the smaller ones do too, but I haven't used them so I can't speak to them).

Post by ddingus » Mon, Jan 20, 2025, 5:09 PM UTC

Mashimo wrote: post #152

ddingus wrote: post #147

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"Take a load" = perform mechanically and or structurally at levels of force, temperatures, etc. at levels higher than the properties of PLA allow for. Don't get me wrong here. PLA is a great polymer, However you can't really expect parts made with it to hold up when compared to other "engineering grade" polymers.

Well for example layer bonding is better compared to some other materials. It's just that load over time it will creep. And of course shite under temperature. It can be a fantastic material for some functional parts. But even if not, I don't see how it's invalidates that there are printers out there that are more or less set and forget.