3DPrinting
3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.
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My buddy has a Bamboo. It's pretty good. My Snapmaker U1 is way better, and is actually open.
And is promised to be open, but their hardware is still proprietary closed source just like bambu and they use a proprietary hotend and nozzle that you can't replace 3rd party, so if anything breaks and they decide not to help you, good luck fixing it.
Almost exactly how bambu started. Seemed to get better once 3rd parties cloned their proprietary parts (not of their own doing), then nosedived.
Looks like an amazing printer at a great price, but so did Bambu in the beginning.
The opportunity for future enshitification is the main reason I'll never connect mine to the internet. It's a great printer, but I don't trust any tech companies for basically the reasons you described.
It is open. They published their firmware on GitHub like they promised.
3rd party nozzles are on Aliexpress
And you can flash 3rd party firmware too.
God yea, the u1 is soooo damn nice
Bambu has painted themselves into a corner. Other companies are making toolhead changer printers without the AMS waste and without the closed system bullshit.
Prusa make a 5 toolhead printer with a tool changer and they're dedicated to reprap and open source
Flashforge looks promising.