Dude, I seriously love your vids! You're not just riding the hype train; you're actually helping us make some solid choices. Totally agree with you on speed and stability being the next big thing - spot on! It's clear you put a ton of thought into this stuff. Keep it up, and I'll definitely be sticking around for more on your channel!
The comments and reviews on UA-cam are sometimes not entirely honest-some people are overly positive, or too extreme in their opinions. I think balanced feedback is more valuable than just seeing one side of the story.
I saw a post on reddit about how bambu has ruined 3d printing. What a joke. I have been 3d printing for 10 years now, and I am tired of constantly working on printers just to get mediocre results. I thought the whole point of printers was always supposed to be a way to easily make useful things, and prototyping not constantly work on the printers themselves. I am tired of that and love what bambu is doing. I own 2 bambu printers and FINALLY have a machine that just works and is simple to use. I personally feel like consumer level 3d printing is finally useful
It's not that anyone has a problem with easier reliable 3D printing but many people resent Bambu Lab building their little proprietary walled garden on top of a mountain of open source hardware and software and their cult members believing that Bambu Lab invented 3D printing. Many people also care about privacy and security and can't abide the idea of sending a proprietary file from their computer to a cloud based Bambu Lab print server and then back to the 3D printer that's three feet from their computer. Yes, it's possible to print offline but Bambu Lab makes it difficult, essentially punishing those who don't want to send their files across the internet to Bambu Lab. In a free market, when a company like Bambu Lab appeals to customers with easy and reliable 3D printing with good print quality, other companies should compete but so far, they haven't. They seem to have missed the important user experience (easy and reliable) and instead focused on the hardware and specs, trying to make Bambu Me Too printers that are slightly faster, look like Bambu Lab printers, but offer little of the desirable user interface. These clone companies know how to copy but aren't as good at understanding markets and innovating. They're in far too big of a hurry to have a proper design and test phase. They ship a new 3D printer as soon as it can mostly print some PLA and they re-skinned a slicer to make it proprietary to their new printer. I give Bambu Lab credit for finally making consumer friendly consumer 3D printers. The others are very slowly coming around to that being the secret to Bambu's success and we're starting to see products like Creality's K2 Plus that are more developed and tested before they shipped.
I hope we get better multi tool head filament swap options in 2025. The open source community is iterating on that task in the Voron/Sovol world. Retract the filament out of the hot zone, set the nozzle temperature to just below the melt temperature to prevent nozzle ooze or coking the plastic in the hot end, and park the unused print head on a silicone pad to prevent oozing. The slicer should be smart enough to warm up the nozzle just before it's needed for printing. Speaking of multi filament printing and smarter slicers, we need slicers to be smart enough to purge into (or as) the infill when changing colors on single tool head filament swapping feeders to avoid poop or a purge tower. That's certainly possible on most parts. Analyzing the geometry and understanding which materials are compatible to determine the best interior purge strategy isn't trivial but it's not as difficult as other tricks that slicers do.
What I want to se in 2025 is a 3D printer with a pick and place head that would allow the printer to embed magnets and nuts inside the print automatically. I would also want to see more printer with automatic print ejection so that the printer can continue to print. For example the Vertigo MK1(Kikstarter not started yet) that promises to eject the parts downward and then start the print again.
your logic and the way you are presenting it is great. a question though, I saw the anycubic Kbra s! in the background, will you be making a review about it soon ??
I'd like to see a company make a much less labor/hassle intensive MSLA resin printer. Ideally, the build plate is transferred manually to the cleaning station. A clean build plate and cleaned, dried and UV post cured structural parts come out the other end, preferably without spending more on isopropyl alcohol than was spent on resin. It would also be helpful if the resin cost is $10/kg or less, in line with FDM printing.
its a shame flsun tried innovating with the S1/T1 only to make yet another self-combusting printer poor TRP, self-destructing hotends, self-combusting drivers, and poor consistency plus poor print artifacting from the bad implementation of closed-loop. Every single community im in has immediately advised people not to buy one when someones been asking about getting one. Not to mention it uses an illegal closed-source Klipper fork thats been modified in dangerous ways, is horribly out of date, and has been intentionally locked-down to make user modification & jailbreaking as difficult as possible.
Yeah, I get that these issues seem legit, but are they *really* that bad? Sure, the critique is super detailed, but honestly, it feels a bit overkill. I mean, I don't wanna be stuck with just one design for a 3D printer, ya know? High-speed printing’s gotta have its challenges, no doubt. But TBH, I’m more inclined to just bite the bullet and pick one up myself instead of just reading about ‘em online. Gotta see it to believe it, right?
@@FlyingFishGoToMoon They are, I've personally watched two S1s have their drivers explode and another S1 have its hotend & bed thermal runaway simultaneously. It's a shame really, *hardware wise* they're good machines, but the firmware has had TRP screwed with among other things and the closed-loop drivers are poorly implemented on account of design flaws with the driver PCBs + Klipper lacking support for closed-loop motors - which means if they're not tuned perfectly from the factory, you're screwed because the *only* way to adjust said tuning is to use an STLink to manually flash new FW onto each one - as far as their Klipper fork is aware, you're basically using A4988s, which means no current, microstepping, ect adjustment. The firmwares not only had TRP messed with but they've also hard-coded PA and other tuning values meaning those just... don't apply to your prints at all. And the slicer, oh jesus the slicer. It's their own custom cut-down fork of Prusa - not even orca - with extremely lackluster profiles and very few filament presets. Plus they just outright lie in all their advertising- even under ideal test conditions their hotend isn't capable of anywhere near 110mm3/s, it actually peaks more towards 57mm3/s; plus it is NOT capable of anything abrasive, the entire hotend itself is damaged by printing abrasives on account of the non-removable/replacable aluminium CHT that makes up half of the hotend.
Didn't flsun make false claims and received bad reviews? Then they sent out the bots to make them look good. Creality has bots too. Bots are no good for your products.
Look, let's be real. Every brand in the 3D printing scene is doing this. But what gets me is when people try to act all 'honest' by bashing smaller brands ( 'Hey, this brand didn't pay me, so their product must suck and they're leaving fake reviews'). It's kinda sad, tbh. Smaller brands deserve a fair shot too.
@ToolMaverick reviewers already to to send them their videos to be approved by the product brand. Don't have to look far to find out who is being honest and who's not. Too many 3d printer shills on UA-cam wanting to get free printers. I would t trust anyone of these reviewers. Creality gets a lot of hate, their 3d printers become worthless in a year, same with all these other one who keep releasing crap each year. None of them stand by their products. They got bots and people commenting to make them look good. Why even defend made in China products, they aren't made to last.
@@oneanother1 Creality just dropped a new product, and Bambu's got something new in the works. Expect a ton of vids about 'em on UA-cam soon. Prusa was the 3D print king for a while but didn't really shake things up much. I don't know what will happen in the 3D printing industry later, I hope that all brands can produce better products.
Dude, I seriously love your vids! You're not just riding the hype train; you're actually helping us make some solid choices. Totally agree with you on speed and stability being the next big thing - spot on! It's clear you put a ton of thought into this stuff. Keep it up, and I'll definitely be sticking around for more on your channel!
Thanks! :)
Just grab what you need, no need to overthink it. Keep it simple
The video is right - there is no one-size-fits-all solution for the 3D printing market. But your videos are always helpful
The comments and reviews on UA-cam are sometimes not entirely honest-some people are overly positive, or too extreme in their opinions. I think balanced feedback is more valuable than just seeing one side of the story.
I saw a post on reddit about how bambu has ruined 3d printing. What a joke. I have been 3d printing for 10 years now, and I am tired of constantly working on printers just to get mediocre results. I thought the whole point of printers was always supposed to be a way to easily make useful things, and prototyping not constantly work on the printers themselves. I am tired of that and love what bambu is doing. I own 2 bambu printers and FINALLY have a machine that just works and is simple to use. I personally feel like consumer level 3d printing is finally useful
It's not that anyone has a problem with easier reliable 3D printing but many people resent Bambu Lab building their little proprietary walled garden on top of a mountain of open source hardware and software and their cult members believing that Bambu Lab invented 3D printing. Many people also care about privacy and security and can't abide the idea of sending a proprietary file from their computer to a cloud based Bambu Lab print server and then back to the 3D printer that's three feet from their computer. Yes, it's possible to print offline but Bambu Lab makes it difficult, essentially punishing those who don't want to send their files across the internet to Bambu Lab.
In a free market, when a company like Bambu Lab appeals to customers with easy and reliable 3D printing with good print quality, other companies should compete but so far, they haven't. They seem to have missed the important user experience (easy and reliable) and instead focused on the hardware and specs, trying to make Bambu Me Too printers that are slightly faster, look like Bambu Lab printers, but offer little of the desirable user interface. These clone companies know how to copy but aren't as good at understanding markets and innovating. They're in far too big of a hurry to have a proper design and test phase. They ship a new 3D printer as soon as it can mostly print some PLA and they re-skinned a slicer to make it proprietary to their new printer. I give Bambu Lab credit for finally making consumer friendly consumer 3D printers. The others are very slowly coming around to that being the secret to Bambu's success and we're starting to see products like Creality's K2 Plus that are more developed and tested before they shipped.
I hope we get better multi tool head filament swap options in 2025. The open source community is iterating on that task in the Voron/Sovol world. Retract the filament out of the hot zone, set the nozzle temperature to just below the melt temperature to prevent nozzle ooze or coking the plastic in the hot end, and park the unused print head on a silicone pad to prevent oozing. The slicer should be smart enough to warm up the nozzle just before it's needed for printing.
Speaking of multi filament printing and smarter slicers, we need slicers to be smart enough to purge into (or as) the infill when changing colors on single tool head filament swapping feeders to avoid poop or a purge tower. That's certainly possible on most parts. Analyzing the geometry and understanding which materials are compatible to determine the best interior purge strategy isn't trivial but it's not as difficult as other tricks that slicers do.
What I want to se in 2025 is a 3D printer with a pick and place head that would allow the printer to embed magnets and nuts inside the print automatically.
I would also want to see more printer with automatic print ejection so that the printer can continue to print.
For example the Vertigo MK1(Kikstarter not started yet) that promises to eject the parts downward and then start the print again.
your logic and the way you are presenting it is great. a question though, I saw the anycubic Kbra s! in the background, will you be making a review about it soon ??
Soon! Still in test mode right now
Full color is the next horizon of current hardware.
I am seeing a S1C back there 👀 Will there be a Video about it?
Probably a few weeks, still testing it out
I'd like to see a company make a much less labor/hassle intensive MSLA resin printer. Ideally, the build plate is transferred manually to the cleaning station. A clean build plate and cleaned, dried and UV post cured structural parts come out the other end, preferably without spending more on isopropyl alcohol than was spent on resin. It would also be helpful if the resin cost is $10/kg or less, in line with FDM printing.
double sized p1s, take my money right now! I wouldnt hesitate to buy if say it would cost a thousand 500x500x500 im in, whos gonna bring it first ...
its a shame flsun tried innovating with the S1/T1 only to make yet another self-combusting printer poor TRP, self-destructing hotends, self-combusting drivers, and poor consistency plus poor print artifacting from the bad implementation of closed-loop. Every single community im in has immediately advised people not to buy one when someones been asking about getting one.
Not to mention it uses an illegal closed-source Klipper fork thats been modified in dangerous ways, is horribly out of date, and has been intentionally locked-down to make user modification & jailbreaking as difficult as possible.
Yeah, I get that these issues seem legit, but are they *really* that bad? Sure, the critique is super detailed, but honestly, it feels a bit overkill. I mean, I don't wanna be stuck with just one design for a 3D printer, ya know? High-speed printing’s gotta have its challenges, no doubt. But TBH, I’m more inclined to just bite the bullet and pick one up myself instead of just reading about ‘em online. Gotta see it to believe it, right?
@@FlyingFishGoToMoon They are, I've personally watched two S1s have their drivers explode and another S1 have its hotend & bed thermal runaway simultaneously.
It's a shame really, *hardware wise* they're good machines, but the firmware has had TRP screwed with among other things and the closed-loop drivers are poorly implemented on account of design flaws with the driver PCBs + Klipper lacking support for closed-loop motors - which means if they're not tuned perfectly from the factory, you're screwed because the *only* way to adjust said tuning is to use an STLink to manually flash new FW onto each one - as far as their Klipper fork is aware, you're basically using A4988s, which means no current, microstepping, ect adjustment.
The firmwares not only had TRP messed with but they've also hard-coded PA and other tuning values meaning those just... don't apply to your prints at all.
And the slicer, oh jesus the slicer. It's their own custom cut-down fork of Prusa - not even orca - with extremely lackluster profiles and very few filament presets.
Plus they just outright lie in all their advertising- even under ideal test conditions their hotend isn't capable of anywhere near 110mm3/s, it actually peaks more towards 57mm3/s; plus it is NOT capable of anything abrasive, the entire hotend itself is damaged by printing abrasives on account of the non-removable/replacable aluminium CHT that makes up half of the hotend.
Didn't flsun make false claims and received bad reviews? Then they sent out the bots to make them look good. Creality has bots too. Bots are no good for your products.
Look, let's be real. Every brand in the 3D printing scene is doing this. But what gets me is when people try to act all 'honest' by bashing smaller brands ( 'Hey, this brand didn't pay me, so their product must suck and they're leaving fake reviews'). It's kinda sad, tbh. Smaller brands deserve a fair shot too.
@ToolMaverick reviewers already to to send them their videos to be approved by the product brand. Don't have to look far to find out who is being honest and who's not. Too many 3d printer shills on UA-cam wanting to get free printers. I would t trust anyone of these reviewers. Creality gets a lot of hate, their 3d printers become worthless in a year, same with all these other one who keep releasing crap each year. None of them stand by their products.
They got bots and people commenting to make them look good. Why even defend made in China products, they aren't made to last.
@@oneanother1 Creality just dropped a new product, and Bambu's got something new in the works. Expect a ton of vids about 'em on UA-cam soon. Prusa was the 3D print king for a while but didn't really shake things up much.
I don't know what will happen in the 3D printing industry later, I hope that all brands can produce better products.