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That looks neat, I might print one eventually.
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Made a sketchy degausser. I don’t recommend anyone do this it is very dangerous. It works great though.
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What evidence vault are you trying to remotely wipe? Lol
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we were trying to see if we could wipe and reformat a 3.5" floppy for retro computing things. It does also works great for demagnetizing tools.
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Made one of these 15 years ago when I was an installer for best buy. Sketchy AF
I kinda wanted to get a MK4S but Prusa managed to make something even better:
I trust Prusa more than Bambu. And it doesn’t require a network connection at all!
thats one of the reason i picked up a Qidi … that and the actively heated chamber 
I find it mind boggling teh popularity of Bamboo give teh closed software package, locked in spools (…its just a matter of time) … I want my printer (all of my gear for that matter) to run offline on my LAN without BS cloud services 
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It’s sold as a plug and play device and for better or worse they won the marketing campaign to open 3D printers to the market of people who just want the thing to work and don’t want to be “under the hood” all day tinkering. Even if prusa is just as much a plug and play platform, they lean into the tinker market and didn’t prioritize selling their stuff as something anyone can just unbox and start printing with without need to know anything or tinker on anything.
Check out the openspool project… also
Yes, but they are not the only ones … I can think about 3 or 4 other printers that go for less than half that are just as “plug and play” with the same setup ad a bamboo.
You are 100% right with that, they probably spent more in add than just about anyone else in the industry …
I am dishing on bamboo because of the locked system and price. In term or raw spec, they are not anything special, they are in par with the competition, except for the AMS, that is the one genuine advantage they have for now (a few company announced klipper compatible multi filament box). They definitely won the PR campaign and are here to stay … its funny to se people wanting to mod them now …
im gonna piss off a lot of people, but they remind of Tesla and Jeep, but 3D printer version
I mean, I could buy a Bambu and replace the electronics… But for that price, I’d rather build my own or buy the Prusa.
There are things in which I had no choice, but having two open source printers, I don’t like the idea of getting a cloud connected one. Especially when it’s from a chinise company.
Prusa took a while to release a fast core xy, but they already had several plug and play machines that just work.
I’ve been debating printer choices for a while, but I think that I’m setting on a few options now. I think that I’m going to replace my Ender 3 with one of those Prusa CORE machines next year. And I might still build a Mercury One.
Sure, you are familiar… but those companies also failed to properly market themselves that way. At least that’s the way I see it, having been convinced to get into the 3D printer game because of bambu’s marketing focus on it being a plug-and-play system. I’m sure other systems are just as plug and play but it wasn’t until I saw the bambu that I actually thought “hey these guys made a printer for people like me that just want to print things when needed, without having to be a 3D printer guy”.
It’s the betamax versus VHS of 3D printers… they just marketed better, at least to someone like me they did.
On the plus side, now that I’m getting into printers, I’m starting to see the value of these other aspects and will probably get a second printer that isn’t a bambu
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you are absolutely correct, Bamboo managed to pop into a niche at teh right time and market in a phenomenal way.
I may (99% sure) have Q1 pro for grab in a few weeks/month 
I need something a bit bigger and hotter for some project and the Plus4 ticks those boxes
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I didn’t come across that marketing back when I got my first 3D printer. But I’m a rather technical person so I’m not the target audience.
I still need to settle down a little more before I set up a proper network again. The last couple of years have been crazy on my end and I’m already exausted.
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Last time I moved, I took my Ender apart and packed it back into it’s original box…
In any case, I came across this interesting mod:
Sadly, I have a base Ender 3 with the standard fat PSU so It’ll take a few more mods if I wanted to make it fold…
Still within Martinique?
This is exactly what a reasonable person would do
Hell no, I’m going back to the continent. I’m tired of this place, nothing gets done and there’s always something wrong.
Pubs and online shopping here I come!
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Send me your new address.
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I’ll be there in a couple months, I’ll dm it.
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