Local-only octoprint is feeling better and better.
X1 Carbon owner here. Iāve had absolutely zero issues with my printer and was not affected by the their recent fumble. Iāve 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 Iād recommend the X1 Carbon in a heartbeat. Iāve heard their slicer is a rip of Cura, I donāt know much about that though, but itās worked very well for me. Allās Iām saying is that not everyone is having a bad experience with them, but I also canāt see the future. ĀÆā \ā _ā (ā ćā )ā _ā /ā ĀÆ
Really? ānightmare fuelā?
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 ātearing themselves apartā, 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.
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.
Yeah but now you have a smart plug in your house.
Is the smart plug company going to turn it on in the middle of the night? Youāve just moved the problem from one closed, proprietary technology to a different closed, proprietary technology.
Not all smart plugs are proprietary. You could even make one yourself with an ESP-01, a relay, and open-source firmware like ESP Home if you know what youāre doing to make it safe at that kind of voltage. If youāre overconfident in your ability to make it safe, then youāve still got an untrustworthy smart plug at the end of the process, so itās not necessarily a good idea, but itās not proprietary.
These printers come with that too. Just most didnāt 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. Itās not much but overtime it adds up.
I really want a X1-C. A colleague has one and loves it. But I canāt 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. Iām tired of having to constantly fuck with my ender 5 pro.
Could you consider a prusa mk 4? Itās set and forget, not as fast as Bambu but no slouch. Support is excellent, open source and parts readily available.
Another vote for the Mk4. Iām very happy with mine, and I think that some people who lash out against it need to consider that not everybody wants a speed demon. Some people want good support and high uptime.
Not OP but recently I was in the market for a printer. I was looking at the Bambu P1S and Prusa MK4.
Iām all for open source and really wanted to support Prusa but the MK4 costs an extra $100 (more if you donāt build it yourself), doesnāt have an enclosure, and the MK4 has a 7-8 week lead time while the P1S ships next day
Iām not proud of it but I got the P1S
I really liked the enclosed case and everything that came with the p1s. I saw some flashforge units on Amazon but havenāt put much research into it. The ams looks great to be able to do multicolor prints that, afaik, other systems canāt touch.
Iām half tempted to pin this post as the poster child for the brand.
