@christian.woznik Thank you for the correction on different boards, I was not able to discern that based on the language in the link I posted, in retrospect it seems the context was referring to the old board and new board of the same model.
Again, I am happy to be wrong, be corrected, and learn.
It is a bit disappointing that I cant engage in this process diligently and respectfully without the aggressive and passive aggressive responses from some.
I did not ask anyone if they would do it, if it should be done, or what they think of my trying to do it, that has encompassed a large portion of the responses Ive received.
I simply wanted to learn the actual known limitations/challenges. It is my money and my time. Maybe I just really like an all black printer, I could buy one of each and do the swap as suggested, I may have to muck with some mounting/etc but that is the least of my worries.
If I could do it for less than the cost of buying both printers outright, why cant âIâ give that a shot. If it doesnt work, its on me.
I donât even care about the lidar and touch screen, but it would be nice to get a proper camera with the P1S. probably just as easy to figure out how to mount an external USB camera though.
The push back may also come from the fact that this has been discussed a few times already. It also has an obvious answer. Yes, if you swap enough parts. Money aside, most things are doable. If you just want a black printer, buy the p1s side panels.
I mean, enough peole have told you, it can not work. They do not sell you the parts! It is hard enough even to get them as replacements if you destroyed your board!
They will have to activate every new main PCB for the X1 series.
They wont sell you some boards. Like I have told you at the beginning. That is the no.1 limitation. There is no way to bypass this.
Nope. The P1 uses an ESP32. It does not have a USB host port. You will not get a better camera on that printer. You have to install an external one!
Many valid limitations were presented here and quite hard to overcome.
As an exercise, highly expensive, time-consuming, and using unethical, maybe un-legal tricks, you could overcome them⌠except for the activation.
No reason for people to get upset over someoneâs curiosity. We each have our interests. Obviously if it costs more to change over financially, it wouldnât make sense. However, there is nothing wrong in seeing if itâs possible.
Interesting idea, however ,buy a cheap smartphone, install Bambu Handy and stick the phone to the printer. Isnât it basically the same thing or am I missing something? Maybe a new topic about upgrading P1P or P1S displays? Actually there already is a topic on Display upgrades.
Seriously there is no toxicity at all, you asked if it were possible and many said it wasnât, and that some parts you wouldnât even be able to source, but still you said you wanted to do it because you had spent $400 on parts, some people just wonât take no for an answer, no matter if its the truth
You asked for dealbreakers, you got named a few. But instead of taking this as an answer, your only reply was, but I want to.
Honestly, I fail to see how it was toxic here. You just did not like the replies.
Coming from a Maker background and not a Print & Play, I wondered the same question. I think that the best thing to do is to contact someone that has an X1 and see if they would examine the differences in the two. As far as âactivatingâ, if you use it offline, then there shouldnât be a problem. Bambu Lab is still somewhat new and there will be people like us that want to know how to upgrade or mod it because that is what we do. Listening to the nay sayers probably havenât even programmed or built some of the things that we have. I added endstops to lasers and flashed other software so it thought that it was a different laser. I was told that I couldnât do it cause it was closed source. So, if you can find the differences in the two such as boards, there most likely is a way. Worse comes to worse, might be looking at Spyder/Octopus board. Didnât the board have a STEM32 on it? Can always check the Linux sites for info. Keep going and this is how things get improved and the makers stronger. Good Luck.
Agreed @cpbeshaw, at least for the xtouch piece. Most of us probably have a spare/old phone sitting around that could be used for this purpose. I still want an upgraded camera though. The P1S camera is terrible. Has anyone come up with a simple solution for that yet?
