I love/hate my fucking Ender 3. I love it cause I got it for free and it's my first printer. But boy have I just wanted to take a hammer to it at times. Though, I can use any software I want, no internet connection, and it's been forcing me to actually understand how that dang printer works. And fuck, when I'm ready to go down that rabbit hole, I can mod it out. I can't beat that flexibility.

Get that bitch a direct drive upgrade and print a dual blower mount for it and it’ll never let you down again

You might want to try those total conversion projects. There are a few that take parts from one or two Ender 3 and turn the machine into a modern CoreXY machine.

You shouldn't give a fuck of your choice of 3D printer's manufacturer is controversial.

HP and Dell suck a fat one, but I don't give it a moments thought when I'm printing out hollow Earth leaflets to hand out at the mall food court.

I'm in the other corner with a P1S still on firmware 1.7 putting like 16 hours of print on it a day (mainly my wife printing decoration and trinkets). It's just th internet finding a new rage bait. The printers are fine, the company is dumb for generating controversy (maybe negligent for the fires). This too shall pass.

I'm pretty excited about blowing all my money on INDX soon :-)

Printed a fidget gun for a guest's kid with the heating block replacement a just bought. It feels great to print again 😎

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Bambu_Lab_A1_NTC_thermistor_fire_and_meltdown_hazard

both I think?

But it seems to only affect low voltage grid countries if I understand it correctly

Avoid

• BambuLab (the usual backstabbing of big corpos)
• Creality (recently went IPO and strongly pivoted towards AI)
• FlashForge (also apparently AI stuff)
• Anycubic (cheap shit)

Recommend

• Sovol (especially for tinkerers, but bad customer support)
• Snapmaker U1 (good price / performance)
• Prusa (The best with a backbone and EU-based, but pricy af because of it)
• Qidi Tech (Rather affordable, not too bad apparently)

These are my personal opinions and what I heard over the years.

Get one of those old timey sheep stomach water bladders and fill it with molten plastic, then just go to town like you're icing a cake.

Or buy a different brand

https://3dpros.com/printer-categories/brand

Depends on what you want, and how much you can afford. Personally I hate the idea of my printer connecting to the internet, so I'm still very happy with the Creality CR-10 that I bought 7 years ago. You can buy very similar models new for like $300. Less if you're willing to settle for less build volume, and even less if you're willing to buy used off of Craigslist or similar online marketplaces

Just be safe, alright? There should be info out there if it's an A1 about removing the dangerous part (seems to be optional). And make sure to take those devices offline via LAN-mode and blocking their internet access in the router.

Fuck, I have one from 2024 that's been sitting in a box until I had the time to get into 3d printing (like yours, it was a gift). Guess I need to buy a fire fighting ball thing for it when I finally get it set up.

Had three of them. Have since had Prusa and Creality and I kinda miss the good old days printing by the seat of your pants and keeping the fire extinguisher nearby

Both of my Qidi machines have been plug in, load filament, and print. My current X-Max 3 also provided a rather polished out of the box experience with an on-screen guide and everything. I would much rather have a Qidi than any Bambu machine at this point.

I'm a little disappointed that they've apparently recently abandoned their homegrown fork of Prusa Slicer in favor of a home grown fork of Bambu's slicer, but here's hoping Bambu's current litigious fuckery will cause them to rethink that strategy. Still, their stuff is open source enough that there's nothing stopping me from using any other slicer with it if I felt like it. Or, indeed, any other firmware.

1.7 gang!

I'm actually really happy with my Snapmaker U. Not only has it been rock steady at printing and quality, they actually open sourced both their firmware and slicer. And flashing a custom firmware is as easy as copying it to a USB drive and plugging it in

Just bought a used, but very well calibrated MK3S last month as my first foray into 3D printing. I love this thing so far.

And it doesn't know my wifi network or password. I save files to an SD card, plug that into the printer, and print. No apps, no printer connecting to the internet to verify registration, no sending my files somewhere outside the home when printing.

Might run it through a MK3.5 hardware upgrade in not too long, which is another cool thing they do: give you an upgrade path for older models (like mine) to use newer equipment from newer models.

Right?! A Mini+ refresh that pushes down the costs without sacrificing performance (very much doable I think, they'd have basically zero R&D cost for that) to hit the 249€ mark would most likely sell like hot cakes, simply because it's both rather affordable and Prusa! Especially right now.

I do hope they work on something. The fact the website apparently only offers the Mini+ Enclosure Bundle by now might indicate they're emptying shelves, though they'll never sell those off at that ridiculous price (500€ semi-assembled).

Sorry, I think that's my bad. Made this meme between stuff and added the "mini" out of habit. Can't find any proof for it being affected as well.

Mini too it seems: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Bambu_Lab_A1_NTC_thermistor_fire_and_meltdown_hazard

I guess after well over 1000h of printing I don't have to expect it to go up in flames, either ...

That assumption can backfire awfully! Please check if your printer is affected, if so you're just lucky it didn't happen yet.

Is there a Lemmy version of r/IHadAStroke?