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Written by amd on 2025-01-16 at 22:43

Yup. Getting rid of my Bambu this year continues to be a good plan.

https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-authorization-control-system-2/

Fortunately my machine is firewalled and LAN only so I won’t “accidentally” get upgraded to this new firmware.

@3dprinting

[#]3DPrinting #BambuLab

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Written by Koz Ross on 2025-01-16 at 22:44

@amd @3dprinting They're clearly starting to tighten the screws. I'd be a bit concerned if I had one of their more expensive machines at this stage.

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Written by amd on 2025-01-16 at 22:48

@koz it’s now a countdown until they announce a subscription fee to use the Bambu connect utility.

And even if they never do: We live in the modern world, I’m not manually exporting a 3MF to upload with another program.

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Written by JW Prince of CPH, Radicalized on 2025-01-16 at 22:46

@amd @3dprinting That's just great - when will they be rolling out the update that limits printing to proprietary filament...?

Have they learned nothing from the regular printing industry, or have they learned all the wrong things?

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Written by brett on 2025-01-17 at 00:27

@amd I've been so jealous of the Bambu printers for years but couldn't bring myself to buy something without linux energy, hopefully their innovations get replicated everywhere else soon

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Written by Koz Ross on 2025-01-17 at 05:35

@brett @amd They kind of are at this point. The biggest 'innovation' was filament-cutting MMUs, and those are a dime a dozen nowadays. The rest is just... tuned profiles and cheap spare parts.

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Written by mia on 2025-01-17 at 05:57

@koz @brett @amd honestly if voron people didn’t have such massive ego problems, redesigned flawed parts, and streamlined the build a little so it’s less of a horrible experience, less expensive and less failure-prone in the long run (at least get rid of the stupid gantry cable chains ffs)… a 2.4 would be a much more competitive printer imo

also the slicer profiles they suggest aren’t very good at all

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Written by Koz Ross on 2025-01-17 at 06:08

@mia @brett @amd The same can be said of the Trident. I'd argue that if you're building smaller (where the advantages of the 2.4 aren't as huge), Tridents are easier and more forgiving, while still getting very similar performance.

When it comes to redesigns, I want them to either adopt, or improve on, the BFIs. The front idlers on the Trident are just shamefully bad.

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Written by mia on 2025-01-17 at 06:25

@koz @brett @amd i’d also appreciate if they at least acknowledged the existence of CNC parts (e.g. chaoticlabs has idlers and a tap) in the BOM tool because they make everything much easier and more robust. yes it’s great that you can do this with printed parts but you shouldn’t HAVE to imo. also:

the cable chains are just a bad idea. cables WILL break, they’re a huge pain to work with, and add way too much weight to the gantry especially on larger builds. i’d go even further and use a CAN bus toolhead board. lighter, way easier to assemble, less failure-prone in my experience and they come with built-in accelerometers.
stealthburner/cw2 should just be canned because that combo is entirely unsalvageable.
same for the inductive probe no one uses.
the rear exhaust fan should be replaced with a nevermore because it’s entirely ineffective at filtering VOCs and makes it harder to achieve good chamber temperatures.
speaking of which: add a chamber temperature sensor
z idlers on the 2.4 should get adjustment screws too.
use annex printed panel clips instead of requiring nuts and screws

and so on and so forth. there’s a looong list of gripes with the stock build. no one should have to assemble it like that and then spend a lot of time and money fixing all those flaws.

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Written by amd on 2025-01-17 at 15:02

@mia do you have a toolhead board you suggest?

My trident is basically all the things you list except I still have chains. I plan to build another DIY this year and don’t plan on repeating that mistake.

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Written by mia on 2025-01-17 at 15:04

@amd mellow-3d.github.io/fly-sht36_v2_general.html this one has been working very well for me

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Written by mia on 2025-01-17 at 15:05

@amd (using it on xol-toolhead with a sherpa mini)

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Written by Koz Ross on 2025-01-17 at 16:45

@mia @amd There's a V3 of that board now, but it uses an RPi on it, so avoid it like the plague. Those things are horrid: every single RPi toolhead PCB in my experience has been terrible. Stick to the V2.

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