So for the Rocky Mountain RRF, you book a plane ticket to “Fort Collins/Loveland CO (FNL)” what happens is you fly into Denver, and the airline has free charter buses 11 times per day between DIA (Denver airport) and the Loveland Airport which is directly across the street from the RRF. It’s an hour ride and a very nice bus with a bathroom and wifi. You can also Uber or rent a car from Denver airport if you don’t want to take a bus of course.
@@elchavode6479 they're more like the apple of 3d printers. they just work right out of the box with little to no configuration and slick ui. Even if it is a copy it's better than the things it's copying.
It's a great thing for everyone! I have 5 3D printers and so far, nothing comes close to the X1-C. But Creality is getting close and closer, and other brands are also finally realizing they must compete and stop pushing more crapastic bed-slingers out the door.
Yesterday I assembled the Elegoo OrangeStorm GIGA - it is SURREALLY ENORMOUS. The machine will deliver what promised - the construction is SOLID. I hope people measured their space properly before bidding - I don't have it on my workshop, I actually asked Elegoo to deliver my Review Unit to my daughter's school, on their 3D Printing LAB.
I'm excited to see what you come up with! I have a lot of ideas for large 3D printed projects. Like, some really cool stuff, but they said they didn't have allocation for me to get one. It's a shame really, because I have some really cool stuff that can only be printed on a large format printer. Fortunately I've got a machine on the way that will let me do some large prints, so, I'll get there eventually ;)
Genuinely excited for the Sovol 8 as a means to bring Vorons to the masses without the proprietary BS that comes with a Bambu or quality issues that come with Creality. In a lot of ways Sovol has overtaken Creality as a manufacturer that supports modifications, spares, etc.
It does have proprietary nozzle though. Which sucks. Not the nozzle, I'm sure it's fine, but it's very different from the norm, so unlikely we'll get many variations in it.
I saw a sort of review of the Sovol 8 from one of the Voron guys. It doesn't even print without modifying the files and the plastic parts were bent. Total piece of junk.
My biggest problem right now with other manufacturers that more people need to talk about is it seems every new printer release is a paid beta test. At some point 3D printing needs to transition from a tinker hobby into a reliable tool straight off the shelf. Are all these new multicolor systems on a core xy good? Yes, absolutely. But until they can get you a high quality out-the-box seamless experience I'm not going to pay them much mind, even if they are cheaper. It's simply not worth the time and headache to save a couple hundred dollars.
We should run a sweepstake on how many iterations of the K2 Plus it takes to get the thing working correctly! LOL I would never buy another Creality product, I have been stung too many times!
Really glad multi-color/material is finally becoming more mainstream. I want something other than a closed eco bambu and Sovol's new printer looks awesome so far.
I wonder, what it's like to start with 3D printing currently? There's so many awesome options to start with! But seems like every 6 months even better stuff comes out. I've been giving some courses about 3D printing basics, and the most often question is "which 3D printer to get?". It's getting harder and harder to answer it without making a lecture of it...
May or may not have been the "correct" way to get into it, but I got into 3D printing by buying a broken bed slinger and fixed it, upgraded it, and I am continuing to upgrade it beyond recognition. I went from knowing absolutely nothing to... well something I'm sure. There's a ton of info out there, if someone wanted to follow my methods, they could very well get a broken Ender 3 on eBay and do the same.
Got asked that a few times in the last months. I arrived at 1. decide if you want to have 3d printing in itself as a hobby or if you want the printer as a tool to learn cad design and use it to make stuff. 2. if it is the latter buy an a1 when it becomes available again. If you need more exotic materials or want an enclosed printer and have the money p1s or x1c. If you care about open source and/or want to support a european company prusa mk4. If everything listed is to expensive: A used mk3s. And if you want to get into 3d printing as a hobby, building 3d printers and getting to know the ins and outs: ender 3 for cheap and prusa mk4 kit for expensive and reliable
@@lajoyalobos2009 Yeah, that's one way to approach it. Do you want to learn about 3D printers? Buy a cheap one, you'll learn a lot! Do you just want to 3D print? Buy a Bambu lab or something similar, you won't learn a thing, but you'll get 3D prints.
@@maxp4790 I start with "what do you want to print?". If you want cosplay parts you need something bigger, if you want figurines, you need a resin printer... Etc. Good thing is there are options, but I highly avoid giving direct recommendations. Ender 3 v3 ke is awesome! But won't be all that great if you want to print helmets. Building is also a great option, and it takes a bit to convince someone new to it, since it seems daunting, but I specifically bring a custom made printer with me, just to point out how one could do it.
Any Bambulab printer depending on how much money you want to spend. Just getting started in 3d printing, an A1 or A1 Mini won't break the bank. If you are on a mission to eventually print more exotic and engineering grade materials, just get a P1 or X1 as the enclosure allows you to print PC and nylon.
The new elegoo printer completely missed the opportunity to introduce a pellet based material machine instead of the filament crap which cost 6x more. This huge machine could save a ton of money and open up new possibilities in material recycling, but no instead they made everything just huge ....
The Creality live stream earlier today unveiled the K2 Plus. Sam Prentice also has a video on it. Looks like they improved a lot over the K1 series which honestly has a lot of crippling issues. I'm hoping it's really good and has a nice price.
@@AndrewAHayes Hahaha they have made a lot of "good" printers, but definitely not many "great" printers. They tend to be affordable with a lot of flaws.
I had a whole segment about how the owner of Peopoly went to SMRRF despite being sick and coughing and everyone else that attended also got sick, but decided to cut it 😂🤣
Competition is good! I’m pie in the sky-imagining Creality making their rfid tags read/write from the printer and selling them to apply to any spool. That’s something ppl have been BEGGING BBL to do, I hope Creality does it and it forced bbl to as well lol. What’s more likely though is Creality will just do the exact same thing as bbl with their own brand filament.
That’s awesome. Munbyn is quality stuff. My previous labelmaker was the cheapest one on Amazon (from another brand) and I had to spend hours tuning it to get the colors right, and still it’s off center so I miss a sliver of the printable area. New one works great though
I've been waiting for a 300+ mm cube 3D printer with a rock solid extruder and steel motion control instead of acetyl V rollers for reliable higher volume printing of multiple parts. It sounds like that time is finally near. I don't care about multiple colors but I would like to print TPU and a rigid material such as PETG so I'd be interested in a dual extruder system is it was reliable and didn't make a ton of poop.
I put my order in for an A1 just a few days before they were taken off the website. printed with it the whole time i've had it and just used my 120$ voucher to get an A1 mini combo and using the AMS Lite with my A1. love them
Also remember with bbl it’s a combo of new tech and the UX that makes their printers special. Not specs. Creality tried it with the K1. Been there, done that, returned it to microcenter and bought an X1 Carbon. Haven’t looked back. I sold my old makerbot and ender, too.
I bought the Bambu Lab X1-C Combo 3-4 days ago. If I had learned the Creality K2 news before, I could have postponed purchasing the The printing area of Creality K2 is really quite large and this is a good reason to buy it. Bambu Lab X1 series now needs to switch to a larger printing area.
Suggest a moratorium on the term "bambu lab killer" until a printer is tested which consistently performs for beginners better than a Bambu Lab X1C. Sovol's nozzles are falling apart, we know nearly nothing about the K2 in terms of real world performance, and Phrozen's printer just got completely overhauled because its design didn't work.
@@nouyoterso CanuckCreator is on the voron team. I would say he can say that with more authority than others. Sovol sv08 uses a core xy system with a flying gantry similar to a 2.4. But it's not a Voron.
@@nouyoter Nice, sure @canuckcreator might be on the voron team, he might have an sv08 in his posession and already have tested it, but the important thing is, has he seen someone else's youtube video on it. Amazing.
Been 3D printing since 2013. Makergear M2 was my first printer. I have SEVERAL printers now. Been building a Voron 2.4(350). Several months ago I purchased a P1S with AMS. As soon as Bambu releases a large format printer, I’ll jump on that for sure!
I held out on buying my X1 Carbon and AMS in the hope Bambu Lab would release a tool changer to compete with the Prusa XL, but it didn't happen and so I purchased my X1C and AMS. I am having issues with it at the moment, it crashes into the front corner and knocks the cover off every time I start a print.
thanks for the video. Heard the FLSUN V400 which was a klipper machine wasn't really a full on klipper. One reviewer also stated the runaway thermal settings were set way too high to it wouldn't shut off = fire hazard = not good. I"m really interested in the S1 but when you fake install klipper, or at least a very old and outdated version that isn't being truthful with the public. Makes me wonder about the software side of FLSUN. I want my first fdm printer to work and not be a beta when released so a company can work thru the problems. Hoping Bambu makes a 350 cubed K1C XL and work out of the box. They have everything just need to make the K1C bigger and add a few more improvements to it and the AMS (seen a lot of folks complain about it recently).
Yep, we are finally getting back to larger printers. If you look back 5-7 years there were all sorts of huge printers and it wasn't a big deal. All of this "advancement" in technology is just rehashing old ideas.
The Qidi printer is a problem with the 220v system, NOT the printer itself. However EU and anywhere else that 220 is used, its live still for that heater, just is how its wired. In the US or anywhere using 120v, its inert and off when its idle. Note: Colorado is NOT "west coast" serving, hell it don't serve much of anyone unless your in the rocky mountains themselves. Really need a RepRap in like Portland or Eugene Oregon, that is something more "central" located for the west coast. As that is easy to fly to from Cali or a decent drive for most in Western Washington (about a 4 hr drive from Seattle to Portland).
I used to live right near Loveland, CO and it's funny, while geographically it's literally about in the middle of the country, if you even dare call it midwest even you will get some dirty glances. They are sure it's the western US there.
Well then, who is going to start WRRF? I’d vote Portland or Seattle for location would be nice. Both cities have big airports, and plenty of space in the suburbs to host the event at a lower-cost venue.
Multi-color is cool and all... But what if I don't WANT to spend hundreds of extra dollars on a fancy multi-spool system?? It's getting harder and harder to find a printer that DOESN'T have this huge extra expense bundled into it!
I'd actually love to have a smaller Bambu Lab with a 120mm cube or something like that, which will be a printer to take with me to exhibtions or markets to attract clients (instead of my Voron v0.2)
Sorry for putting this out, but could you please tell whole dimensions of build volume? I noticed that you said just 2 dimensions and it was fustrating for me who doesnt always watch updates, mostly listens to updates, so could you please provide detailed audio info, like 350 cubed or 350 squared by 345 in height or somethin. Overall great info about printers, good work man
When creality releases their AMS/MMU it's a no-brainer. though my only use case is to use it as a way to not constantly refill when a spool ends rather than multi coloured prints.
@14:32 You're incorrect! I guess you haven't tried it yourself.. You absolutely cannot stick your finger in there! And the whole thing is so blown up, it's not a big deal really.. If you remove all the protection around the heater element, leave the machine plugged in and then touch the heater, yes it will shock you.. But that's also true if you if you dismantle your washing machine and touch some contacts.. So just be sensible, unplug the machine if you want to tinker with it..
Competition breeds development and innovation, I don’t think we will see huge price drops from bambu lab. It’s more likely that creality, phrozen and anycubic will raise their prices. I have creality printers, bambu lab and anycubic with bambu lab overall the easiest to interface with as a user but all 3 manufacturers make useable machines with varying degrees of knowledge need to get the best results. Hopefully this will push 3d printer manufacturers to develop more user friendly and reliable machines or we will be in another race to the bottom as far as prices and quality.
I like your videos, but I'd look into your microphone if you're talking into it correctly, I believe it's a front address and not an end address. It would make your audio quality better with less echo and better focus on your voice
Everyone is doing 4 color ams, but back when Anker was showing off previews of their six color hotend all I could think was CMYK + BW with a mixing extruder. Still kind of want to see someone do that.
@@couryrussell7653 Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Black. Every printed full colour picture you have ever seen is printed in just those 4 colours. I should have added, and White. With those 5 colours you can ALL other colours.
@@couryrussell7653 Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key. Key actually means black. Used in printing (non-3d for now) to create any color as a blend of those.
It seems from some sources that Creality's Filament System won't work for older printers. Which is a shame; I am a big fan of the Ender 5 S1 and was looking to keep adding onto it besides the Sonic Pad and nozzles.
I am very excited about the K2 Plus. I do love my K1 Max and Ender 3 V3 KE. I am also going to get the SV08. The specs and price is no brainer . I just got the QIDI Q1 Pro and am doing ABS Cosplay stuff on it and so far so good except for a couple of issues but QiDi support is handling it.
Bambu has got a BIG wakeup call coming. All the other companies are surpassing them now. A lot of people dont realize that Bambu is using 2 year old tech at this point
Still, it's a trusty workhorse for me. Almost zero issues with my X1C in the past half year. There are many unknowns about these other printers. I'll wait a year after release before considering buying. Don't get me wrong, I don't have any Bambu loyalty. Even more, I'll gladly switch to other another brand. The SOVOL-08 sure seems awesome and I'm very tempted but I'm still waiting for a 400x400x400mm or above enclosed 3d printer with MMU. And it should be as easy to use and low maintenance as a bambu. So I can just focus on 3d design. The print speed is not that important because as stephan from CNC Kitchen said, after 200mm/s, your print quality declines greatly. Would be nice if Prusa came up with one. But I'd rather not have multiple toolheads.
I really hope they offer an upgrade kit that can be used on the K1. Probably wishful thinking on my part. Guess I will be buying a new printer a couple of months after it comes out.
I am happy there is competition, I just hope that all these competitors are not just "good enough" and do have a good user experience. I am eager to see your review on one.
I wanna hear more about that concrete crane printer. Is that what Nathan is building behind the scenes with all those chunky linear rails, hmmmm I wonder 🤪
@@NathanBuildsRobots sigh.. unfortunate haha. I just returned my 5M pro.. was great for PETG and ASA but it struggled at those temps and the HW would lock up and get an error screen forcing me to power down and power loss recovery didnt always kick in.. even on the new 2.6.5 firmware. I figured the Q1 looked the next best in the same price bracket?
The Qidi chamber heater thing is a non issue. You wouldn't go poking things into a space heater without it being unplugged, why would you poke anything into a chamber heater? It's dumb.
@@NathanBuildsRobots as a person with a modicum of common sense, don't poke your fingers into a heating element when is plugged in. I don't own a Qidi and likely don't plan to. However, there's been a ton of videos pointing out that this is a non issue. I guarantee you don't cover all your sockets at home, just on the off chance you feel the urge to stick a fork in one. Why? Because I'm going to assume you have the tiniest bit of common sense.
I have a bbxc1 and ams , overall I am unhappy with the multi colour functionality, software wise it's great, but the ams hardware works as often as it dosent, I now no longer use it
Creality is the devil… aren’t you tired to be fooled by them ? Release a not ready printer, let us fix it, make a new version within a year with no major update .. Bambu Lab Maybe evil.. but they’re not just money grabber from the community with under engineer printer…
I am not sure if they are selling tickets yet, it's in November. But yeah, try reaching out to specific companies that you would want to visit with, they might be able to get you in. Otherwise, I think there are discounts for students and the like.
According to the formnext website, visitor information is supposed to go online in August. Im guessing that it‘s not free and that you would at least have something to do with a tech related industry or institution.
Hi Nathan. I own a Bambulab A1 and I made a several complaints to the company for not sending yet the bed replacement also I own a X1C where the waste chute door support broken and I had to open the wallet to get a new spare instead sending me the spare for free under guarantee because it was their fault for design so badly. When the new arrives, I will redesign it, using the old one, to try to work much better.
YOu Creality and Bambu fanboys are terrrible, 2 Trees is the printer for the people! Just kidding but i did just watch OfF Grid Garage's latest video and he prints some panets for his battery using one and I was impressed. I was bugging that guy to get a 3d printer awhile ago and finally some cheap company sent him one , but it looked suprsisingly good for functional parts. It was corexy which helps and it wasnt cheap like 500 USD so its probably an expensive alternative but its good to see theres lot more options out there anyway. I wanted to get my dad into it but dont think he's into a a bambu price tag and I couldnt recommend anything less to be honest, or so i thought, theres lots of good ones out there now since Bambu came on the scene.
@@NathanBuildsRobots kickstarter will get no more money from me, it was a scam from the start they only bought 5 laser units total while saying the were in full production.
