3D printer nightmare fuel: Bambu X1C and P1P started printing while owners were asleep
3D printer nightmare fuel: Bambu X1C and P1P started printing while owners were asleep
Bambu takes responsibility for damaged printers.
Local-only octoprint is feeling better and better.
Friends don't let friends buy proprietary cloud locked printers.
Proprietary cloud locked anything, really.
What I wanna know is if that was a bug or a feature.
Edit: also wannaâŚ. Where my Mario midi to gcode guys?
I want that script too, please!
Makes me very glad that my printer has a power supply with a big clicky hard-cutoff switch that only gets turned on when I intend to use it.
If you set up octoprint (or any form of networked printing) and don't mind the horrors of potentially killing an OS (that you can easily reflash and that won't have an issue if it isn't a knockoff sd card): I love that my anycubic and its pi running octoprint both just go through a smart plug. When I want to do a print I turn it on from my phone/HA, wait like a minute, and I am good to go with a camera pointed at the print bed for monitoring. And then turn it off when I am done.
You don't even need a pi for this option. I'm running octoprint off an old android phone and it works great.
These printers come with that too. Just most didn't have it turned off overnight when this happened.
They should have it turned off because the Bambu lab printed have been tested and shown to draw much more power when idle compared to other printers. It's not much but overtime it adds up.
Same :)
I really want a X1-C. A colleague has one and loves it. But I canât deal with closed source and mandatory network.
I want a p1. but the nature of proprietary hardware in general and now stories like this have me rethinking it. I'm tired of having to constantly fuck with my ender 5 pro.
I have a Creality K1, I am able to load files to it with a thumb drive. There is a really terrible app for it, and it can be hooked up to wifi, but... I haven't done any of that. I slice the model, save to a USB stick, and plug the USB into the printer.
I'm half tempted to pin this post as the poster child for the brand.
Ooooph. Owning both a modded to the nines Ender 3 v2 and a vCore 3.1, there's a part of me that wants to add the simplicy and MMU functionality of the X1C to the mix at some point....but this is uhhhhhhh scary. No thank you lol!!
Really? "nightmare fuel"?
Some people have a really low bar for considering something a nightmare.
There may have been a nonzero chance of it starting a fire, since the article describes some printers as "tearing themselves apart", which could conceivably have included wiring damage or hot things landing outside the printer on flammable material.
Also, since it seems to have been printing copies of previous prints, um, well . . . some people do print sex toys. I can see how explaining that one to your eight-year-old or your mother-in-law, if they find it first, could be considered a nightmare.
Weâll, considering things can heat up quite a bit with printers, I wouldnât want mine turning on randomly. Iâd rather heat my house using central heating, thank you.
Nothing a Wi-Fi controlled power outlet canât fix. If the printer is turned off it canât suddenly start printing.
OK, but the fact that this is a thing that can happen should be making everyone think twice about buying from this manufacturer.
It isn't GOOD. But if you aren't leaving your printer running 24/7 (which you shouldn't, if only for power reasons), it isn't a massive issue in practice so long as the conveniences outweigh the risks.
I WOULD be concerned with the window between a print finishing and waking up though.
I bought from them knowing about the cloud service. These printers are fine for one off purchases, but I would never buy one if I were to set up a print farm. The parts are all reasonably priced, just don't know how long that will last or they may discontinue the model and stop selling parts for it.
X1 Carbon owner here. I've had absolutely zero issues with my printer and was not affected by the their recent fumble. I've had mine for over 6 months but under a year, & print most days out of the week. I love open source shit, but honestly, in my experience, if you want a set it and forget it, fantastic build quality & speed printer I'd recommend the X1 Carbon in a heartbeat. I've heard their slicer is a rip of Cura, I don't know much about that though, but it's worked very well for me. All's I'm saying is that not everyone is having a bad experience with them, but I also can't see the future. ÂŻâ \â _â (â ăâ )â _â /â ÂŻ