I’ve got one of these on backorder for my P1S. Everything I’ve read about them is fantastic so I’m excited for the upgrade.
It might not been as clean as you want, but have you looked into the Panda Klipper touch screen kit for the P1P & P1S on AliExpress?
Can’t help with the camera, I imagine it’s USB so you could in theory use a 3rd party camera and print your own shroud for it, but then it’s whether the firmware would recognise it. Probably not.
Find a second hand x1c from a print farm. They come up from time to time. Would have every thing you need including a serial number.
But if you were going to that extreme, just use your p1 as parts to refurb the x1 mechanicals (bearings, lead screws etc) you can even swap the black body panels over other than the top front cover and screen. Much more feasible this way.
Well, that’s a more logical approach, weird but logical, in a weird way!
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The lidar itself is sold in the spare toolhead parts section for the X1 series. It goes for 60$ a piece.
You can do it. I just went through all the parts.
Totals out to 723.29 usd
Not feasible.
There is no problem only an unfound solution. Lets flip the idea on its head,
What if you had an X1C unit and modified it with the p1s chassis, the hardware and software will be expecting itself to be in the larger X1C chassis and larger build plate maybe this can be altered in the software/ drivers.
Be a shame if this was the only thing stopping you achieving your desired goal.
Maybe if there is enough interest bambu labs may offer upgrades for the P1S to bring its functionality more in line with X1C.
In the meantime
There is a separate touch screen you can add i have seen ads for.bpanda something.
Not sure about the lidar though.
I am no expert on these matters, I am awaiting delivery of my P1S with AMS
My first 3d printer was googling to find touch screen ad ons and found this conversation.
Surprised a little by the negativity.
I like to believe nothing is impossible, just some things take a lot of time or the right people wanting it to happen enough.
Good luck with your idea.
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P1 series and X1 series have same build plate, same chassis.
Let’s put it simply. If you want X1C functions but own a P1 series, sell it and buy an X1 series. Easier, more affordable, and far less aggravating.
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I did a parts cost to swap out everything to make a p1s into a carbon… you are looking at approximately $700 which is the price difference between the 2 models… I returned my p1s and got the carbon instead….
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Hence the reason he said replacing the mainboard… Since all the circuitboard parts appear to be available for purchase, it MIGHT be a lower cost alternative to upgrade a P1S to an X1C by buying all the necessary circuit boards vs buying a completely new X1C… I just personally don’t feel like the extra capabilities of the X1C over the P1S really justifies the cost… I hate the screen on the P1S… but so what… I bought a Panda Touch and printed the Ultimate Panda Touch screen mount… now it looks just like the X1C as far as the screen…
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What you found is only the lidar cover top and bottom. Says what in the box. Also for 11.99 ya there is no lidar with it.
Hello I am from chile (latam) and here the x1c combo costs $2000 becaus bambulab not have shipings to here , I bought the p1s combo for $1200 and i am intrested to upgrade. Idk if someone can make me a list of the components to buy. I can aford the importation cost of the pices
Welcome to the forum.
There is no upgrade path from a P series printer to an X series. Luckily you can get the same quality of prints out of both printers.
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Very interesting path you are taking. I am used to modding almost everything that I own and have been tweaking my CR-6 SE for about two years. It is currently on Klipper with a few other mods to it. I can get about 2x the original speeds out of it now. But still way slower than the P1S.
It seems like it will be difficult, but if you learn anything along the way, please post! I would love to start modding my P1S. 
Also, just a lighthearted comment (don’t take it seriously), but have you thought about taking the panels off the X1C and putting it on your P1S? It surely will look like an X1C and still get almost the same print quality.
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Bambu users are like Apple users. They don’t like people like you/me who are hands-on
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lol, yeah that’s it.
You are trying to do something that isn’t possible, if you’d listen.
First the boards are different, and bound the the serial of the printer they came in. You cannot get around that. Full Stop.
You can slap whatever parts you want onto it but it’s not like a Creality for a good reason. Bambu did not want to make people constantly have to upgrade and chase the next issue just to print. “It just works” was the mantra.
The board isn’t the only issue. The Firmware is different. So if you can’t get the board to work, you can’t get the firmware needed. Without the firmware or board the Lidar won’t work. The bed won’t heat to the X1 specs (yes it’s different). The screen won’t work either.
It’s not about how mechanical you feel, it’s not possible for a freaking reason. The closest you can come to is to purchase an old one from a print farm and refurbish it.
Keep on hurling insults and thinking you’re smarter than the rest of us. Ask yourself this. If it were possible, wouldn’t it have been done by now?
Sincerly,
An Apple User.
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Also, what does this mean? I’m not an Apple user but I really don’t understand this analogy. Didn’t Apple owners fight for their right to repair their own devices? Wouldn’t that mean they wanted to be “hands-on”?
Oh and welcome to the forum! I think
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I have one. Works fins and the fact you can even carry it around with you instead of leaving it attached is a plus. You can also gang printers with it and a number of other useful features. I think you’ll like it.
As for connorw’s reply, Knock yourself out, but you get MANY hours saved in programming time with the Panda Touch, much more than the $30 difference. On the other hand, if you want to do it yourself because you like a challenge, enjoy programming and making things work . . . then best of luck to you and post your results if you do give it a try. People are always wanting to see what kind of ingenuity users can come up with.
Most apple users don’t want to repair their own devices BUT they do want to be able to take them to a good 3rd party repair shop like Lois Rossman’s.
A lot of repair shope are capable of repairing apple devices but are hampered by chips, buttons, cameras etc being married to the mainboard serial number. People have bought 2 brand new iphones and swapped the genuine apple cameras and the camera function was severely limited until the cameras were replaced back into the phone they were originally in. Apple are also infamous for their antics of almost bricking phones if the home button was replaced by an aftermarket replacement.
It’s not so much the users that are anti repair but there are some who think the manufacturer can do no wrong (at least until they are the victim).
While not necessarily agreeing with todays corporate & marketing strategies, I can kind of understand it. A lot of time effort and money went into developing market leading technologies on both the apple and Bambu fronts and they would like to get a decent return on the investment. However, I am from the days when electronic products came with a full parts listing, decent troubleshooting descriptions and circuit diagrams. Back then, repair was encouraged. Manufacturers encouraged people to buy further new products by giving their latest offerings extra worthwhile features instead of forced obsolesence.
A lot of people hate on 3D printer manufacturers for not making the printer 100% open source but are very happy apple sheeples who will not hear a wrong word against their beloved tech companies,
All my working life I have been a service engineer repairing industry state of the art equipment costing anywhere between 140k to over 700k and when I got home from work to my then new printers had to practically do a full rebuild every couple of days. Now I’m retired, I want my 3D printer to simply work more than it needs tuning or fault finding. My P1S has fulfilled this wish with only one minor problem with the AMS. this only affects one position so it is still an almost fully working printer but with only 3 filaments available until the issue is resolved.
I too wondered if the P to X upgrade was possible but can also see from the many replies that it’s not something to chance (at least for the present) but who knows, there are many people more knowledgeable than I that might one day come up with a affordable way.
I’d rather have my bambu printer and keep my mind occupied with electronic repairs while the printer is not so quietly doing it’s thing and doing it very well.
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I believe apple maliciously leaves some flaws in the design to brick their stuffs completely when it comes to water damage. One example is about apple macbook that Louis Rossmann pointed out about the flaw that sends 50v LCD backlight directly to the CPU pin since those two pins are next to each other at the connector to the LCD. Normally it would be fine, but once the connector soaked with water it is 100% confirm kill the cpu. And of course when it comes to water damage, customer is 100% to blamed, and no repair for him.
With that thinking, I consider this is the same practice
