Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well
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This will land where nobody will see it, but I need to get it off my chest. I am so glad I purchased a P1S with my employer’s money. It’s a fantastic printer but I haven’t liked Bambu as a company from the start and have held out for Prusa one day making the printer to succeed the Mk3S and Mini I have at home.
Bambu set the standard for 3D printers, so I have to give them credit. The P1S has everything I wanted; always perfect 1st layer, a 5-minute complete hot end change, 5x as fast as my old Prusas, and incredible print quality.
Why I distrust Bambu the company? Because they have the standard garbage Chinese mentality when it comes to their R&D, business practices, and the community. They took Prusaslicer, pissed on the open-source license and rebranded it Bambu. They were caught red-handed downloading Prusa’s Printables website to make their own repository.
At least some of the work that went into Bambu’s success was done by the open-source community which they have used to make into a proprietary, send all your files (and control) to China locked down system that is very obviously gearing up to use the BMW heated-seats-by-subscription model for their hardware.
And before anyone thinks I’m being bigoted in my feelings on Chinese manufacturing anddesign copying, stealing practices, look up the 100%cloned Ford F-150 built in China sometime in the past two decades.
Fuck Bambu. It didn’t take them long to hand this present over to Prusa. I will pay 30% more for a no-drama machine when I upgrade.
Bambu set the standard for 3D printers, so I have to give them credit. The P1S has everything I wanted; always perfect 1st layer, a 5-minute complete hot end change, 5x as fast as my old Prusas, and incredible print quality.
Why I distrust Bambu the company? Because they have the standard garbage Chinese mentality when it comes to their R&D, business practices, and the community. They took Prusaslicer, pissed on the open-source license and rebranded it Bambu. They were caught red-handed downloading Prusa’s Printables website to make their own repository.
At least some of the work that went into Bambu’s success was done by the open-source community which they have used to make into a proprietary, send all your files (and control) to China locked down system that is very obviously gearing up to use the BMW heated-seats-by-subscription model for their hardware.
And before anyone thinks I’m being bigoted in my feelings on Chinese manufacturing and
Fuck Bambu. It didn’t take them long to hand this present over to Prusa. I will pay 30% more for a no-drama machine when I upgrade.
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