true, it will just keep getting more expensive until the final price of 350… it’s really steep, you can buy almost 6 sovol SH02 with that lol
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shows how diamondback nozzles are made.
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Ok people, I’m about ready to decide that most of these Instagram giveaways are about as legitimate as the ones the 10 years are running on the community tab lol.
Remember 3 weeks ago when I posted that I won the Overture and Bambu social media things… and then Bambu was Bambu-ing and I posted a rant and deleted it? Well shortly after I ended up winning an Eddy-Duo from Bigtreetech and a keychain, magnet or tote bag from FlSun too lol.
So it’s been a month and I hadn’t heard anything from BTT so I DMed them and I got this:
Now they are still showing available on their US store so I’m not sure what they are doing? Two of the basic PEI plates are about the same price as the duo so I figured why not. I never heard back for FLSun either but I have enough magnets, keychains and totebags to last a lifetime. Are these companies constantly doing these giveaways and then not actually sending anything out?
Anyway, I figured this would at least give everyone a laugh… I know @johnfcooley will get a kick out of it.
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Yes.
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Theyre waiting for a B-stock item to ship lol.
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just started watching recently the tv show - the jackal, and he has one of these in his lair 
anyone knows what it is?
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think it kind of looks like a Voron
Looks like an Ender 5
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yeah it does look quite similar, think you’re right 
Voron update. I ordered 4 of the motors in this video, kraken controller, cpap, funssor 9mm awd gantry, 9mm xy belts, phaetus rapido 2 UHF carbon hotend(with CHT nozzle), lightweight gantry and aluminum gantry mount. Should be able to install it all over the next couple weekends.
Not actual printing, but just testing speed, he hits over 100k acceleration at 3000mm/s before it skips steps. He prints a thing at 600mm/s actual print speed(not just travel). Should be able to hit 600mm-800mm actual print speed on the 350 voron
Same motors here on this creality. Needs better cooling
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those sure are fast, but that benchy looks like sh@!t, speed for the sake of speed is pretty irrelevant.
but that first video was a nice combination
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I agree. I think the speed thing is a different part of 3d printing. The hobby side. I equate it to building a 3,000hp car that only goes straight vs buying a super reliable minivan and never modding it. The van is gonna get you to work every day but is boring af. Would be very silly if it was his only printer and printed everything at 800mm/s. I may print a single melted benchy lol, but thats it.
Crazy part is that he could cut his speed back by 70% and still compete with alot of mass produced printers. Notice no vfa in the first video even at 600
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Interesting take.
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not really… oh the good old days… where you had to spend hours tuning the printer and settings to print a cube… 
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It is nice these days. Although, I still run all the same type of calibrations as I did back then. Ive never had issues with quality, only speed. Not much need for input shaper tuning at 40mm/s lol. That cube would take 2 hours too.
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Sure, and I understand that some users really enjoy the technical and mechanical aspects of the 3D printers, but for others - like myself - I enjoy the printing / output part of the equation also enjoy the tech aspects of course, but they aren’t the main objective
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Agree 100%. I think what he was getting at is this may be the last group of users that are split. And over time, less and less will be able to enjoy the mechanical side of things. Or even have the knowledge to. “A dying art”, if you will. Im sure that with AI, even the modeling side of the hobby will eventually die off. One day, makerworld will just be an engine that poops out whatever .stl you can think up. Theres already a few tools that starting in that direction already. One day it will be a paid/subscription model. I have my personal feelings about it, but those dont matter in the grand scheme of things. Overall it will make it easier to sell printers.
One personal feeling I have is that alot of people that think it was hard before, probably just started printing in the last couple years and never actually experienced anything but modern day printers. Because it really wasnt that difficult. Just slow. Same calibrations. Same needing dry filament and a clean bed.
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This. I have seen so many reviews on Bambu printers saying “This is the first printer that does not need tinkering, that just works. The old ones were rubbish. That’s why this is the first printer I bought (/got sponsored).”
Quality printers have been around for years and years now. Bambu is cheaper, you don’t need to take a hike with your SD card and it’s faster. But it has the same bed adhesion/filament/overhang/limitation/everything issues and in my experience it is worse than old printers in the accuracy and repeatability department because of it’s speed and constant calibrating and overcompensating for everything while old printers just read the prompt and did the prompt. Every time.
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I guess what I would love to see is a more opened up and user friendly setup. Klipper and user friendly/standard hardware on a bambu would be a game changer. Instead of waiting on the next release to give us what we want, we would be watching for the next big mod to give us what we want.
PC vs Mac thinking, I suppose
I would love to mod my x1c into an awd beast,(like the 4 minute benchy awd k1 video i shared) but id need to replace nearly everything.
Just ideas. Hopefully somebody with decision making power reads these posts sometimes. If I was CEO l, id be here every day. Maybe he does? If so, I bet he values honest feedback. The worlds richest man once said “negative feedback is the most valuable thing for a product company” or something like that. He has since changed his mind lol. That feedback becomes harder and harder to get, the more popular the company gets. Because at a certain point, your own users become a barrier for that feedback. Apple or even Prusa and now bambu in the 3d world are good examples of this.
Edit: So I dont have to double post, heres a pretty interesting video about a different way of doing infill.
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I would say they can never take tinkering away from me because they can’t make a printer I can’t break… but then I realized at some point it will be the robot butler doing the repairs. I won’t need to tinker with the robot butler because the repair droids will handle that. The future in my head is very similar to StarWars.
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