Nope.
OK, maybe not strictly open source. However, everything including the CAD drawings and firmware are online. It’s under the OCL. The only thing it doesn’t allow me to do is sell a competing printer cloned from the Core One. Maybe that is a grey area. As far as personal use, except for the boot loader, everything is under OCL.
As a lover of Latin, I thank you for your quote. I too would love a LAN direct connection, but I do have an isolated home LAN for my LAN Only mode. I do understand that they were sharing their experience AND I do not wish to minimize this. My perspective is well perspective, and for me this is the key to understanding. Companies sadly change and the change is usually in their favor, so I can understand their feelings. Nihil est perpetuum nisi mutatio Nothing is perpetual except change. Be well.
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@Nephillim Probably a bad translation, being lazy and using AI since some of the words and grammar are not part of my direct line of education.
“■■■ in partibus remotis Oceani Pacifici Australis in navigio esse in animo habeam, haec elementa instrumentorum meorum pernecessaria erunt: typographum habere qui recte fungitur, qui ab aere marino secludi potest, et qui vi electrica ad systema ‘wifi’ necessaria non utitur.”
Edit and I totally for got about word relations in modern English. 
I agree in all ways. I will not be buying anymore Bambu printers. I am a little annoyed that I bought the hype (and a very expensive H2D) when my gut told me to buy open source but I, like many, was blinded by the bling and the torrent of You Tubers who only had good things to say. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. I won’t be fooled again.
“Assume”? I guess you did not see my caveat “perhaps” in the post to which I think you must be responding. Or for that matter, any of my other responses this thread in which I also tried to make it clear that I am not assuming (or asserting)…..anything.
That said, over my 35+ years as an engineer in a variety of disciplines and having been employed for the last 20 with a very large aerospace and defense company as a Technical Fellow specializing in international policy, I suppose it’s reasonable to believe I have a fair understanding of the possibilities. Do with that what you will.
Ok. Now I get your point. Thank you.
I saw the word “perhaps.” I did not go looking through your other responses since they were not addressed to me like this last one was.
My point was only that “perhaps” still means we are talking about a possibility, not something proven. That is why it is fair to separate that from the product-line discussion.
Cloud dependency, data handling, and regulatory pressure are fair concerns. They do not, by themselves, prove that Bambu’s product-tier decisions are unusual or artificial.
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pour passé en Lan uniquement et pas perdre beaucoup de fonction et même en avoir quelque une supplémentaire vous avez banbuddy qui est une alternative trés bien pensez au cloud bambu
pour passé en Lan uniquement et pas perdre beaucoup de fonction et même en avoir quelque une supplémentaire vous avez banbuddy qui est une alternative trés bien pensez au cloud bambu
I do not believe Bambu Buddy works with LAN only mode. It needs the printer to connect to the cloud, because the cloud is the portal that transfers the information to Bambu Buddy from the printer via Bambu Connect.
on peux configurais pour le contrôle a distance avec le mode proxy imprimante virtuel
on peux configurais pour le contrôle a distance avec le mode proxy imprimante virtuel
I apologize, I was thinking of Bambu Handy.
il n’y a pas a s’excusé on est ici pour un échange de connaissance et dans la cordialité et avec la traduction parfois sa peux amenez a des erreur
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Look as someone who loves my Bambu Labs Printers including my H2D. I am saddened by their illegal disregard of the licensure after sale. In the US we have this law called Right to Repair. It makes what they are saying VERY illegal.
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Nobody is printing guns on on a bamboo lol
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Duuude, 
The Open source created foundations, not just clones : Linux powers most servers, supercomputers, and Android. Git underpins modern development, Kubernetes and Docker dominate cloud, Chromium bases major browsers, Python and Rust lead languages, Blender rivals pro 3D tools, RepRap birthed desktop 3D printing including Prusa. Bambu itself builds on open-source firmware and designs, open source supplies the core tech that companies productize.
Here is just 15 Open Source projects that actually changed the world:
As for Bambu Labs, I wish they would take some time to understand open-source principles and stop being so adversarial toward the community. It’s putting me off buying anything else from them right now.
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It has only been recently that Blender has been able to step up against the major 3d authoring tools. For most of it’s life, it’s been a garbage dump of a program. Even in it’s current state, it’s much improved, but still a shell. I worked within the video game industry for 20 years, and it’s only recently that you’ve seen real adoption of Blender in the pipelines.
I mean, don’t get me wrong. I’m a fan of Blender and glad it’s in the state it is now. The foundation with which it finally got itself onto is a good one. That came with funding though, and with someone finally dedicating some time to UI design, because my gawd, engineers/coders don’t seem to understand how to make things user friendly.
One of my clients had a deep Maya and Blender integration. As artist, we could use either, since the “source” wasn’t stored in the traditional way. I preferred Blender 9 times out of 10, although I still did most of my actual work in 3D Studio Max, so.
And that’s only one aspect of the media landscape where Open Source is starting to shine. There aren’t good open source video editors, compositors, 2d applications. The most popular alternatives to Photoshop and Illustrator are closed source. I’m talking about Affinity, which has now shifted to being free. Even with Affinity being free, me being on a tight budget, guess what?! I still subscribe to Adobe!
I would never use Gimp. It’s an awful program. (Maybe Krita is better? I haven’t used that one, so can’t comment, but it does seem to get more respect than gimp, and looks decent from a glance) Anytime I’ve used Gimp though I’ve realized the difference between it and Photoshop. For the sort of work I’ve done over the years as an artist, it just isn’t it.
I tried to get into Affinity’s illustrator, but it fell short too. Just barely. I realized the tools are a little more robust in Illustrator, which works out better for my current workflow, as that robustness saves me a ton of time and headache.
In the video editing space, Blackmagic is locking things down with Resolve. There is 0 incentive at this point for an open source video editor. I mean, I shouldn’t say 0, but there isn’t a market for it outside of hobbyist that insist on open source. Resolve is an expansive program with a robust tool set. I mean, it started out as a color grading tool, but expanded into video editing, compositing, sound design. It covers a lot of bases, and it gives that out for free. Obviously the goal is to dominate the industry with their software.
Within the CAD space too, I’d say that the open source tools fall short. That doesn’t mean they are bad, or you can’t do anything with them, but they are short from most full featured cad applications. I use Fusion, and I pay for it! If you can believe such a thing. I’ve never been convinced that I should switch to any of the open source solutions. If anything, I’ve only thought about moving to other closed source paid for applications, like Rhino. I used Rhino heavily in the past, and I enjoy the depth of it’s tools. Ohh, or Alias Studio. Maya’s nurbs tools get their DNA from Alias Studio, but my gawd, are they not as in-depth.
Granted, there’s FreeCAD as an alternative to Fusion. For me FreeCAD doesn’t have all the features I want/use. In the realm of Alias/Rhino, there’s no open source alternatives.
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But, both China and Japan have a history of making weapons from bamboo
Sorry, I couldn’t resist 
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Yeah, there’s some truth there. FreeCAD is capable but often falls short on polish and specific features compared to Fusion, and strong open-source alternatives to Rhino/Alias are basically non-existent for now. I can’t really comment much on Fusion, as I opened Fusion once, my head exploded, and I’ve never been the same since. I’ve stuck to Tinkercad and only just installed FreeCAD last week. I’ll get there eventually.
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