I tried switching to LAN, it took multiple attempts and half a day to get my mini to show up as a choice for LAN mode in Bambu Studio. And then when shut off for the night, it was gone again in the morning. As in it couldn’t be found. And now it’s back to Studio not connecting to it.
I’m not sure what I can do besides using the sneaker net to run it.
There are the usual suspects-- Prusa, Creality, Qidi, Soval etc. They all have their fansbois and detractors. Prusa is the most expensive Soval the cheapest.
Everyone complains about Prusa’s price while ignoring they need to pay EU wages and taxes. Personally, I think Prusa knows they can’t sell printers to cheap ass consumers. So they are slowly withdrawing from that segment and switching to entry level business printers. Still, they offer the best long term support out there. My trusty 6 year old Mk3s+ stills works as good as as new and I just downloaded new and improved firmware for it yesterday. That’s support and worth a lot of money to some of us. There is a community mod I’m considering trying to convert it to run Klipper.
I find Qidi an interesting brand. Priced between Prusa and Bambu, (though cheaper than Bambu’s CoreXY offerings), they often get passed over, but they offer printers with more industrial features than anyone else. All enclosed CoreXY printers with active heated chambers with high temp extruders and hardened steel nozzles, Qidi makes printing difficult engineering filaments easier than any other consumer printer available right out of the box. You can even get an idex model. The Plus4 is the newest offering and they are bring out an ams style filament box for it soon. The biggest complaint seems to be fan noise. I almost bought one, but they dropped their X-Smart3 1803 printer. So I ended up with the A1 mini.
Crealty is, well Crealty. The K2 is supposed to be a pretty good printer. And based on user reviews, Crealty might have finally gotten one right. But it’s large and more costly than the rest of their offerings. I do not follow Crealty at all.
Soval offers a mix of budget style printers. From Mk3 knockoffs to a not quite CoreXY machine-- the gantry moves up and down and the bed is fixed. But they are budget priced. Reviews seem mixed. No multi filament printing offered or on the horizon.
Do your due diligence and pick out the one that seems to fit your needs.
It’s a nice thought, but it’s not going to do much in the real world. Between the system reaction time and the device assuming the filament is actually round-- it’s not-- and absolute accuracy of the device, this isn’t doing anything to improve print quality beyond a placebo effect.
But it might make PandaPi some money.
There are licenses can be changed. Even you admit it.
This is a risk with any item that requires software to function. Companies can change software licensees, lock-in buyers, and even open source can flat out abandon a project.
I just bought a Bambu Mini to sit along side my trusty 6 year old Mk3s+ and this pisses me off to no end. I was expecting my mini to simply be abandoned rather than suffer a lock-in AND then abandonment. So, I guess I won’t be updating my firmware nor will I run anything through their cloud. I was thinking of uploading a few designs to their cloud. But that ain’t going to happen now.
I pronounce it AbbyWord and Gnumeric. I’m too old to have need of a full office suite anymore-- Libre or not.
French Canadians, (Québécois), believe it’s a way to fight other Canadians. If it works against Americans? Well that’s just a bonus.
An interesting real time experiment to see how long it takes for stratification caused echo chambers and/or extremists zealots from both ends of the political spectrum to seize control of the platform. Turning the platform into a hellscape of zealots fighting each other for dominance and the eradication of all the others.
Sadly, humans as a rule need adult guidance for polite interactions to prevent violence. The sad part is it has become impossible to pick said adult capable of doing the job. And anyone in their right mind should run from such a job anyway.
That’s nice. But those are not the parts that generally die. Now get the control board that runs the whole show-- that’s the main failure point. See what that would cost to replace. I just searched for the control board for my 12 year old Maytag front loader. One source only: $367 dollars, (they know what they got). Is a 12 year old washer with limited parts availability really worth that much money to fix to scrape a couple of more years out of it if the motor goes tits up in 2 more years? I can drive to town and buy a basic top loader and haul it home and have it installed by this afternoon for just $200 more. And it will probably be fine for the next 10 to 12 years. (I’ll probably be dead by then away).
I just replaced a 10 year old dishwasher this last summer because the pump was dying. No replacement to be had on the whole planet. I need to replace an 8 year old microwave now because the handle is broken and the door cant be be disassembled to replace it without destroying the door. If I could get it apart, I’d be 3D printing a new handle as I type. And I’m not even going to bother searching for a whole new door.
Cheap easy repairs on washing machines are long a thing of the past. Between proprietary digital potted control boards to 3 phase motors, the parts ain’t cheap. (I’ve bought a few to repair them before I learned better) To the sheer unavailability of the repair parts. Make fixing you washer and dryer a time consuming, expensive, and often impossible task.
By the time you figure out the time spent searching for the part you need, the availability of said part, the cost of the part, the expected life of the rest of the machine, cost of all the time spent, you can pretty much be sure it’s cheaper and faster to just buy a new one. I can’t think of one major appliance I owned in the last 30 years that was worth the time and effort to repair. And I’ve tried repairing washers, dryers, dishwashers, microwaves, and refrigerators.
The only washers I’ve ever owned and were worth fixing was those old wringer/washers your Great Grandmother had when she was young. Straight up mechanical machines run by one simple switch, a vee belt, shafts and gears. That’s the reason those machines could keep going for 30 or 40 years.
And resulting health data sold for mere pennies. So health targeted ads can be flooded to your personal device.
I don’t think anyone does at this point.