As someone who wants to get into 3D printing for model railway items, I will admit that the A1 mini is looking like a very good choice! Easy to get started with and a good quality product! Thanks for your review! 👍
The printer is nice, until you have to rebuild the toolhead for the first time. It has the ability to self destruct. At first I thought it’s simpler and more serviceable than its bigger brothers, but it comes with its own issues and is not reliable enough if you want to run a business on it.Both my Bambu printers are down, my Ender fleet works and anything is a simple fix.
I would love to see Bambu Lab come out with a Infinite Z printer like creality did many moons ago it always seemed cool to be able to have something as long as you want or something in the range of 400 cubed.
You're the first person I've heard say that the camera is clear, and good quality time laps! When did you purchase yours and have Bambu Lab updated this?
@@car_tar3882 But I can buy a cheap $20 camera and get great video? I actually have a $20 tapo and wyze camera focused on a couple of my printers and it takes great video!
I love my Bambu printers. I have an X1 and this A1 Mini. Both are fantastic machines. That said, I feel you're being more than a little disingenuous with your high praise of the camera. I suppose the still images it can show you do look good, but that and timelapse videos (which I stopped bothering with after my first couple prints) are about all it's good for. You're lucky if you get even 1 FPS when watching the live view. That's not an exaggeration. I love Bambu. I'll buy more Bambu, but that camera sucks.
the print you showed at 7:35 is soooo cool but also so messy in terms of nike lore. AF1 outsole, jordan 1 mid upper, dunk sb toebox lol still better than any 2D printer i've ever owned
The Bambu printers are really nice, but I won't be buying them. I'm not going to lock myself into a company that forces me to use proprietary parts, proprietary software, and integrates with a cloud service. It's far more important for me to have an open, neutral hardware/software ecosystem that I can maintain, modify, and assemble on my own without relying on a company for support. I purchased a RatRig V-Minion about a year ago and couldn't be happier. It has all the speed and quality of the A1, but runs Klipper and has open-source design and standard, common/generic parts. It does not have the multi-color attachment, but that has not been an issue, it's a feature I don't need. Plus, it does support manual color changes at a layer boundary if I really want to do that. My next printer will be a RatRig V-Core to replace a highly modified Ender 3 S1.
Yawn. Such a silly take for someone who posted from a device with all the “issues” you listed. As well as every single other electronic in your house. Bambu takes printers from a meticulous hobby to normal household appliances. Your view is so archaic now.
Why is Bambu Labs making you buy the AMS for $160 until after Christmas when you get the standalone A1 Mini? Is that how they think they can make a profit off the $299 price for the standalone A1 Mini? Sounds like a Tesla move to me!
As someone who wants to get into 3D printing for model railway items, I will admit that the A1 mini is looking like a very good choice! Easy to get started with and a good quality product! Thanks for your review! 👍
Don't tell ppl to put TPU in AMS lite... Unles i am wrong...
Nice air jordan print eheheh Thanks for featuring my model!
It looks great. Very nice work
The printer is nice, until you have to rebuild the toolhead for the first time. It has the ability to self destruct. At first I thought it’s simpler and more serviceable than its bigger brothers, but it comes with its own issues and is not reliable enough if you want to run a business on it.Both my Bambu printers are down, my Ender fleet works and anything is a simple fix.
I would love to see Bambu Lab come out with a Infinite Z printer like creality did many moons ago it always seemed cool to be able to have something as long as you want or something in the range of 400 cubed.
What is the advantage of using the cloud instead of LAN mode?
I haven't received mine yet. But I imagine we can check if our prints fail and remotely cancel if we're away from home?
@@rajgill7576 So if you're worried about them stealing your models you can just put it in LAN mode and not lose any functionality?
@@rajgill7576 Got mine on pre order. Got a month to wait ☹️
@@terryd8692 ohhh like bambu taking your STLs? Yea
It's easier for you to be hacked which is definitely an advantage for the hacker! ;)
You're the first person I've heard say that the camera is clear, and good quality time laps! When did you purchase yours and have Bambu Lab updated this?
It may be due to my lighting. I got mine from Bambu. I dont think it's an updated version
@@ebpman Yeah, the video I've seen from the camera is terrible. How much more could it have cost them to put in a decent camera, a couple dollars?
@@joeking433it’s not the camera that’s the problem it’s the lack of processing power
@@car_tar3882 But I can buy a cheap $20 camera and get great video? I actually have a $20 tapo and wyze camera focused on a couple of my printers and it takes great video!
I can't get the filament UNLOAD button to work. Have you figured out how to unload a slot? Cheers.
Great video. i thought the printer was amazing, but the camera is rubbish. Im glad yours is better.
I love my Bambu printers. I have an X1 and this A1 Mini. Both are fantastic machines. That said, I feel you're being more than a little disingenuous with your high praise of the camera. I suppose the still images it can show you do look good, but that and timelapse videos (which I stopped bothering with after my first couple prints) are about all it's good for. You're lucky if you get even 1 FPS when watching the live view. That's not an exaggeration. I love Bambu. I'll buy more Bambu, but that camera sucks.
the print you showed at 7:35 is soooo cool but also so messy in terms of nike lore. AF1 outsole, jordan 1 mid upper, dunk sb toebox lol still better than any 2D printer i've ever owned
17:45 "X one mini" ?
No one figured out how to use the color change/purge filament as filler in a slicer?
Thoughts?
i was wondering that with this new ams it would be possible to use TPU?
No. I have not been able to use tpu. Need to run it outside of the ams
what if it can run inside the ams? the lenght is shorter then cx1
@@ebpman
I know this is a little necro, but why does your description keep mentioning a "speaker"?
😂
The Bambu printers are really nice, but I won't be buying them. I'm not going to lock myself into a company that forces me to use proprietary parts, proprietary software, and integrates with a cloud service. It's far more important for me to have an open, neutral hardware/software ecosystem that I can maintain, modify, and assemble on my own without relying on a company for support. I purchased a RatRig V-Minion about a year ago and couldn't be happier. It has all the speed and quality of the A1, but runs Klipper and has open-source design and standard, common/generic parts. It does not have the multi-color attachment, but that has not been an issue, it's a feature I don't need. Plus, it does support manual color changes at a layer boundary if I really want to do that. My next printer will be a RatRig V-Core to replace a highly modified Ender 3 S1.
Yawn. Such a silly take for someone who posted from a device with all the “issues” you listed. As well as every single other electronic in your house. Bambu takes printers from a meticulous hobby to normal household appliances. Your view is so archaic now.
And you use android by Google monopoly or apple....
@@XentheraFalse. Not everyone is living in America who bans phones who don't subscribe to the American monopolies.
Why is Bambu Labs making you buy the AMS for $160 until after Christmas when you get the standalone A1 Mini? Is that how they think they can make a profit off the $299 price for the standalone A1 Mini? Sounds like a Tesla move to me!
They are making a profit regardless. They are currently selling the standalone for $249. And this machine doesn’t explode. Lol
@@joelamaro4525 I have a $120 store credit coming for my A1 so I'm going to buy a Mini.