I just watched the Feral Engineer’s review of the Centauri Carbon and it broke my heart a little. I know a lot can change between the review printers going out and a product to go live for the public… but according to him, right now you have to use the fork of Orca that comes with the printer and the firmware is locked down, he couldn’t even SSH in. It has it’s own version of Bambu Connect, I think it’s actually called Elegoo Connect.
Up until now Elegoo has been extremely open source. The firmware and step files for every part on the printer were on their Github for the 3 series. The 4 series used Klipper.
He said they are in communication with the Orca people and they are also usually really user friendly so we’ll see if they change course.
It’s just the SV06 and SV08 that are open. Oddly the SV08 doesn’t seem to get much love but it looks like one of the standouts of the 2024 competition field.
True, I think I would even put up with a hair more of tinkering needed if I got open source in return, but then again my first printer was a maker select v2 when it came out [Duplicator i3 clone] and have had numerous ender 3’s and the like. Honestly i feel a little more spoiled these days, but would gladly sacrifice a little bit of hands free for and open machine
“I want to clarify things as best as I can. If we haven’t yet posted the STL files for the replacement parts, it simply means that they are still being finalized. We are not withholding anything on purpose, and we aim to share those files as soon as they are ready.”
Sorry to hop in. Figured this info could be helpful for some. Sinks back into a bush ~me
BTW, that filament backup feeder project that @Hank had previously mentioned did get funded:
I have no affiliation, so just fyi. Not sure whether an AMS has a similar “infinity mode” where it can keep switching back and forth between spools, or whether it just switches to the next spool until all 4 spools are exhausted. In any case, I’m guessing this product is aimed primarily at legacy printers rather than printers that already have an AMS available.
The top vent is too easy to overlook. I wonder if soon there will be some quick mod to affix a sensor to it. Or, better yet, a solenoid to open and close it based on selected filament.
Am I the only one who found Tom’s review to be “nerfed”? For instance, he alludes that Bambu provides a more inviting user experience, but doesn’t give anything more specific as an example than the protective plastic not peeling off the Prusa cleanly. True, it’s a criticism, but it strikes me as rather shallow criticism, not worthy of being his #1 example. Instead he could have mentioned that the X1C comes with spaghetti detection, and the Prusa Core One does not. I mean, why not be as specific as possible? Instead, toward the end, he mostly just gave some vague opinion saying Prusa had some catching up to do, so as to artificially avoid giving a conclusive nod to either product by using vagueness to somehow even the score? But in exactly what other ways, specifically, does Prusa need to catch up? What isn’t he telling us?
Or is this just how it looks when you’re a youtuber does his best to comply with anti-disparagement? Is this the new code language we need to learn? I think it undermines trust in reviews.
Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate other aspects of the review, and maybe I just need to see a lot of different reviews to get an adequate level of detail. But at the same time, at the end, where you expect a reviewer to reach strong conclusions, Tom seemed uncharacteristically vague.
People are becoming good dancers. Like when talking politics at work, everybody becomes a centrist.
These two have become the apple/samsung, mac/pc, xbox/ps, amd/nvidia, samsung/lg. The list goes on. You can either be a centrist and very vague about all conclusions, or have half the audience. Until the last 2 years, you could basically get away with saying everybody but prusa and voron sucked. People are more split now.
A few days late I know, but a very tiny and chaotic part of me laughs at this…
It’s awful for the community, but it also curbs the smug-ness of some of the current reviews that are saying “At least it’s not Bambu coz bla bla ecosystem bla bla”
Again, not cheering it, just smug chaos on my shoulder laughing…
The new printer should be announced week of Feb 17 to 21st, so very soon.
This is just a guess based on some leaked code name but looks like it will be two printers. H1 or H2 and H2D. One will be a single print head, the other a dual.
I thought the only date we got as the first quarter on 2025? Which could be up to the beginning of April.
I personally think it will be delayed as I think they may want to address the firmware controversy first. Might not be a good idea telling everyone they are screwing people over with the firmware and then saying “Come and buy our new printer…”
They’ve announced in Q4 last year that the launch of their new printer will be sometime in Q1/2025, which could be sometime in February, as you say, or anytime from January 1st to March 31st… If they launch on April 1st with the disputed firmware it will turn out to be the worst bad April joke in the past 50 or so years.
