The Bambu Lab A1 - The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

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In this video we talk about Bambu Lab A1 Bambu Lab A1 Mini Bambu Lab P1P Bambu Lab X1C Bambu Lab New Printer.
Long live the bambu lab fanboy club
0:00 Intro
1:01 Print Speed
1:18 Acceleration
2:01 Build Volume
2:55 Extruder and Hotend
3:20 Dual Axis Lead Screws
3:29 Linear Rail X axis
4:09 Reviewing Printers Isn’t Easy
4:21 PEI Spring Steel Sheet
4:32 Automatic Bed Leveling
5:12 Part Cooling
5:25 Aesthetics
4:37 Cloud Functionality
5:57 Touchscreen
6:20 Motor Noise Cancellation
7:15 Proprietary Parts
7:43 Replacement Nozzles
7:54 Detachable Power Cord
8:18 You Should Buy one
8:31 Actual Review Begins Here
8:36 Print Quality
9:27 Bedslinger Pros and Cons
10:46 Serviceability and Tinkering
12:50 Different User Experience
13:53 Moddability of Other Printers
15:55 Final Verdict
16:14 Straw Man Arguments
16:56 Alternatives
17:07 vs FlashForge
18:18 vs Elegoo
18:58 vs Creality
20:31 vs Bambu Lab P1P
20:59 There are Many Great Printers
21:43 Hardware Highlights
23:54 The Apple of 3D Printers
24:56 Penultimate Verdict

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@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

Teardown video of the Bambu Lab A1 from Vector 3D: ru-vid.com2JChLLMpJ00?si=_ou8Y4sS0KYdfYND&t=5276 Everyone please watch and share your thoughts!

@kailin1496 10 месяцев назад

The heated bed is very interesting, CNC kitchen posted a picture of it heating up, and the heat transfer throughout the plate seems very inconsistent, personally I would like to see if you could remove the heater's thermal fuse and use the heater to bake a pie. It does not seem like the most reliable way to heat a bed either, PCB heater would of been much better, the price difference between the two can't be that drastic, there are sub 200 dollar printers that use PCB heaters as well. And if they went with a PCB heater I'm sure they could have cut a significant amount of weight from the bed.

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

They aren't doing a design change for fun, there has to be a reason for switching over. In engineering, cost is king. So somehow, this has to be saving them money. I would really like to cut the bed wire, plug it into the wall, and see what happens. Maybe do some cooking with it haha.@@kailin1496

@boggisthecat 10 месяцев назад

@59:00 - Bodge required due to slight failure from the ‘cost down’ team. They must be saving at least $1 per thousand units in wire, though. That has to offset the additional 30 s per unit in production labour and also the reliability reduction, though, right? “Cost is king” is a production maxim - however, the manufacturing is only part of the cost. Faulty returns are a big expense, so when the ‘cost down’ team want to substitute that slightly cheaper component or cut the wires so short that only an origami wizard can construct the device (God help you if you need to try to fix it), the correct response is to downsize the ‘cost down’ team.

@boggisthecat 10 месяцев назад

The bed being ‘springy’ seems like a possible issue. As the printed object increases in mass this will deflect the bed, and if the mass is off-centre then it will not deflect uniformly. Someone with one of these and a dial gauge could check it. Old-school bed-slingers with springs didn’t have big issues, so maybe it’s not something significant. (All beds will deflect a tiny bit under load, and also flex and warp slightly through heating cycles, so maybe this is nitpicking.)

@kailin1496 10 месяцев назад

@@NathanBuildsRobots The bed design does not seem to be too thermally efficient. And with the manufacturing of the bed including: die-casting, magnets, surface grinding, the heating element, and the electronics for the bed, I do not believe that it would be that much less expensive than a pcb bed, if anything the price difference would be marginal at best, I could also see that this bed design might be more expensive than a pcb bed, but the price is compensated for by the design of the rest of the printer. I can't help to think that the the bed design was intentional, in an attempt to keep sales of their higher-end P and X class printers from being crippled.

@Rasmus661 10 месяцев назад

The sarcasm in this video is so thick that you can cut it with a knife 😂

@MarlinFirmware 10 месяцев назад

The RepRap approach and philosophy relies on open standards and giving full control and ownership to the user, so that’s where products like this fall down for us. But on the plus side, we are being challenged to develop improved motion with input shaping, better user interface and first-time setup, and more configurability to keep up with the proprietary offerings, so there is something to appreciate about these new products entering into our field. It’s clear that the marketplace responds to “ease of use” and “it just works” and we aspire to provide this at the open source level too. The most important thing we can do to help our industry partners compete in this field is provide a solid set of building blocks that they can combine to create the best overall product utilizing the full power of a single processor. That will continue to be our emphasis going forward.

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

Whatever is in the Ender 3 SE should be on every similar printer from now on. Not having to do Z-offset calibration is great.

@JackPinesBlacksmithing 10 месяцев назад

I bought the Ender-3 S1 4 months ago because it promised all the best features - direct drive, auto bed leveling, run-out sensor - but I’ve spent so much time with bed-leveling and z-offset that I’m frustrated enough to consider moving to Bambu. They seem to get that some of us may want to tinker with the hardware & software while the rest of us just want to print cool and useful stuff.

@shyguy.654 10 месяцев назад

@@NathanBuildsRobots creality is trash

@ogpennywise 10 месяцев назад

Us? This doesn't "fall down" for ME, so please speak for only yourself. Nice to see Marlin still around though...I hadn't seen it on any of my machines the last 5 years, so I didn't think it actually still existed. Then I remembered Creality is still somehow around...

@jonroth6981 10 месяцев назад

agree it is trash@@shyguy.654

@kailin1496 10 месяцев назад

If you "dissapear" we know what happened.

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

They’ll make it look like an accident. Like a pile of 3D printers collapsed on me

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

Hi EUC Vibes. I just dropped in to Bambu is #1. Best thing since sliced bread!

@leonardk8315 10 месяцев назад

@@NathanBuildsRobots Nah, they will make it look like suicide. You couldn't live with the shame and decided to stab yourself to death with a Bambu Lab filament cutter. And then in your last moments you wrote in your own blood about how great the A1 really is.

@victor-antonioali378 10 месяцев назад

The internet is watching, we’ll know

@ogpennywise 10 месяцев назад

@@NathanBuildsRobots No need to add furtherance to being an ahole.

@SmashingBricksAU 10 месяцев назад

I bought one for the "not messing around experience". I do like to tinker with things, but I also like designing and building robots, a printer that is no messing around and works out of the box is what I am keen on.

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

Should work well for you

@Shayway 10 месяцев назад

The trolling and the honesty is why I keep coming back here. *chef's kiss*

@UsLay1 10 месяцев назад

This seems like the first non sponsored non biased review of the a1.

@MrKornnugget 10 месяцев назад

I appreciate you spending your own money and time to bring an honest review from your own prospective.

@subject8123 10 месяцев назад

I think it depends on what your hobby is. If your hobby is 3d printers, then yeah, it’s probably not for you. I think the market for this is the person that just wants to be able to print the thing they need.

@Killswitch1411 9 месяцев назад

Exactly. I'm using 3d printers for the things I can make not because I can tinker on it.

@lilyvmax6642 9 месяцев назад

Literally all the printers he has on display in this video are plug and play

@MasterWilliam770 8 месяцев назад

to call an ender plug and play is disingenuous. I don't have to calibrate esteps on my a1

@lilyvmax6642 8 месяцев назад

@MasterWilliam770 Neither do Ender 3 V3 KEs dumb dumb. Get with the times.

@GeddyRC 2 месяца назад

I’ve got enough hobbies. My first 3D printer was a tinkerer and I spent so many darn late nights fixing things. Then I ran into trouble and it required some work, but I simply don’t have time to fix what I now regard as a tool, so I bought an A1 and I love the thing. 200 hours already (I got it a few weeks ago) and not a single thing has failed. It’s really an awesome machine.

@scubaru7162 9 месяцев назад

I design and sell 3D parts, that means I want to turn on a machine, and print. I've done the modifying printer route for years (Monoprice Minis, Ender 3's) and at my current capacity of prints its about the 3D printer being a tool not a tinker gadget. Also being able to print a prototype in PLA orange then a production part in black PETG back to back is a HUGE time saver.

@P.R.Shriram 10 месяцев назад

Lol a bambu lab ad played in the middle of watching 😂

@greatestevar 10 месяцев назад

Same 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@zekesnack 10 месяцев назад

I think this is a good take. I as an engineer find that I do not have time to fiddle with my printer. I want to just send files and have a working prototype. The A1 is not a good fit due to my material needs, but I totally understand wanting a push button experience.

@gman9543 10 месяцев назад

Yes exactly. I want to create 3D models and have them printed out with minimal fuss. My goal as a designer and maker is to get the 3D object designed and printed, not to have to fix and tinker with the tools to get you there.

@andreas.grundler 10 месяцев назад

The ideal printer would be something that does both. A printer that offers a good out-of-the-box experience, but is open enough that you can tinker with it if you want to. The Bambu Lab printers are not an option for me due to their closed nature, but fortunately there are still plenty of alternatives on the market. Let's hope it stays that way and doesn't end up like the drone market after DJI came along.

@jonroth6981 10 месяцев назад

Yeah I'm an industrial designer Time is money This makes fusion 360 for kids so accessible

@jonroth6981 10 месяцев назад

If your tinkering with your machine your not designing and just wasting time

@paulv69 9 месяцев назад

LMAO. THANK YOU for not being a simple propaganda shill and noting the similarities between competitors. i want to print, i don't want to be a printer repair person... but i want to be able to do it if i want to.

@remcoder6 10 месяцев назад

This video and the previous about the NDA have opened my eyes. I recently got myself a P1S and I really love it. But this video made me realize just how much I ignored other 3d printers out there. You hit the nail on the head when you say we're blinded by Bambu's marketing. It's not that that I ascribe outrageously positive properties to their machines but I almost totally forgot about the competition. So while don't think I made a mistake in getting the P1S, I do feel a little bit bad about not getting a honest overview of the market before I buy. And this is what your other video went into.. there have just been so many positive reviews.. all around the same time. It's like a bombardment. Again, I do normally take any review with a grain of salt and tend to watch many different ones before making up my mind but the sheer amount of praise across the board has worked to its intended effect. Thank you for being a rebel and please don't stop ;-)

@jonroth6981 10 месяцев назад

has anyone got a copy of the NDA?

@kickpublishing 7 месяцев назад

For a multicolour printer of such high quality it’s by far the best value for the size. That’s it’s usp

@jonroth6981 10 месяцев назад

I bet this bloke, becomes the next creality representative

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

I’ll be the next CEO.

@eunit14 9 месяцев назад

I think the ams deserves a highlight. I've done the manual filament changing to achieve multi color prints and it's tedious. Also the active flow rate compensation is a pretty big deal!

@JimHarmer 9 месяцев назад

Guarantee this guy uses an Android and a PC, and drives a Prius. Probably even has widgets on his Home Screen.

@andrewlongfellow8745 10 месяцев назад

Loved the review. I didn’t realize you’d be putting one out so quick. I’d like to see it versus the Neptune 4 printers.

@Confusedengineer-qw5tn 10 месяцев назад

Same!

@Finchyboi14470 10 месяцев назад

I own a Neptune 4 pro and so far the only thing I think it’s got over it is the multicolor capability which is the only reason I would buy the A1. I have had great customer service with Elegoo, where recently my Neptune 3’s motherboard gave out causing some problems and they said they’d just mail me one over for free, and even pay to have it enter the country should tariffs or whatever make it cost more.

@andrewlongfellow8745 10 месяцев назад

@@Finchyboi14470 oh that’s pretty sweet. Yeah I’ve been eyeing the 4 pro. Still rocking a 4 year old ender 3 pro. I just want to see comparable print times and quality from the a1 and Neptune 4 pro. What id really like to see is how often prints fail on Bambu printers vs others. I saw a review of the core xy printers vs prusa prints over 2 months and it was amazing how many more parts the guy got out of the Bambu than the prusa. And very little fails.

@richou5721 10 месяцев назад

the 4Max is bigger and thats its only advantage ignoring how scuffed the N4s firmware was for too long

@clavicus 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for this review I've watched dozens at this point. This really adds realistic context to the marketing/hype and has a great analysis and comparison to the competition.

@trulsdirio 10 месяцев назад

If your hobby is getting a printer to do what it should this is not the printer for you, if you hobby is 3D design and you just need a way to get them from the digital to the real world with the least hassle oh man is this your printer. I don't want to tell my printer its Z offset every damn time because somehow it doesn't remember, even tho it clearly says it does. I don't want to mess with some firmware update that bricked the printer again. I don't want to optimize my slicer settings for a week to get some decent results, because instead of just giving some well dialed in profiles all we get is ten year old cura version with a funky skin. I don't want to pay twice of what it's worth because it's orange and takes two months to get here. I just want to print my designs. If any other product gets there and is open source on top of that, cool I'll look at it. But I won't buy a product that works half the time but hey, it's open source and everyone copies it, so it must be great, mustn't it?

@BMW520ITURBO 10 месяцев назад

When even the salty guy who got left out has mostly good things to say about it, you know it's a good product. But, to be honest, he's not wrong. Too much hype for a middle sized bed slinger. Especially since almost everybody who bought the A1mini wishes they knew about this sooner. Sure, it's a very good value but it's not for everybody. I love the ability to customize and upgrade and i wouldn't want to be locked down by an ecosystem that can control or even ban me at any point. That being said, bamboo's products are great for beginers and the price is among the best for the performance they offert.

@fouroakfarm 10 месяцев назад

The Apple comparison is spot on. I wouldnt be surprised if in Bambus meetings they've aimed to be the Apple of 3D printing. I agree though personally, I dont like proprietary systems like Bambu (especially considering 3D printing was built off the backs of so many other open source initiatives; it goes against the ethos)

@nategraham4027 10 месяцев назад

So was Apple software, making the comparison doubly apt.

@kaween1000 10 месяцев назад

I don't really agree. Other than Apple, Bambu actually provides their users with full featured WIKI's and (very) affordable spare parts for their machines. Apple on the other hand goes out of its way to discourage any kind of user-repairs. On their latest machines, you can't even swap a broken LCD of your Macbook anymore without transplanting the SMD-mounted ID chip. So "no". Bambu is not Apple. And we should be thankful for that.

@EddieNanakase 10 месяцев назад

Bambu is not Apple, but it's trying to become like an Apple company

@elchavode6479 10 месяцев назад

Apple is industry innovator look at the iPhone They innovative the use of USB C charging. Then they also innovated the $1,000 caster wheel that connects to the bottom of your Mac pro Tower.

@StumpyTales 10 месяцев назад

@@elchavode6479 As I recall many other companies' devices were already using USB-C while Apple kept pushing and using its proprietary Lightning connectors.

@edevans5991 10 месяцев назад

I'm guessing Bambu didn't send you one because they realized you have enough printers already. Think of it as a kind of intervention. haha

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

haha, so kind of them

@vim55k 8 месяцев назад

You are one of the only honest bloggers

@DeanParmenter 10 месяцев назад

Bambu - the Apple of 3d printing

@joeking433 10 месяцев назад

With added Tesla marketing strategy (make them buy the high priced $559 Mini before coming out with the stand alone!)

@coolcat312 9 месяцев назад

The AMS is the feature that has me sold at this point. For the price what other printer can print in four colors?

@NathanBuildsRobots 9 месяцев назад

My HP-Ecotank Printer!

@leeball4 10 месяцев назад

It's got a swivel screen. Best innovation on this machine. Gonna make one for my Neptune 4 Max.

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

It's pretty neat.

@boggisthecat 10 месяцев назад

It’s amusing that Bambu Lab initially proclaimed bed-slingers to be dead, yet here they are now.

@MasterWilliam770 8 месяцев назад

meanwhile making tons of money not caring about the folks saying "but i thought you said you weren't gonna do a bed slinger?? gotcha!"

@chillermrq 10 месяцев назад

For me its the ecosystem. The app, the slicer, the ams. They just work like charm for me. Everything just works together seamless and I missed that. I can throw almost every Material at it and with simple calibration steps they all worked for me. For someone who prints almost only functional parts, the ams is just perfect.. I have petg, asa, abs-cf and pla+ loaded and always ready to go! All the other company you showed just remodeled their printers like the ender 3 several times that it got boring.

@jonroth6981 10 месяцев назад

agree mate, its the tinkerers who are upset because they thought they owned 3d printing and now its a mainstream product

@chillermrq 10 месяцев назад

@@jonroth6981 Absolutely! There are basicaly two groups. You either have 3D printing as a hobby and like investing time in tinkering. Or you like to design your own stuff and just want it to be printed without the need of investing time to make the printer work as you need it. For me Bambu Lab made the first convenient desktop consumer printer. My Printer is in the basement, no need for sd cards and stuff, no connection problems. It just works. I have printed silly gimmicks with petg and even engine parts with PA12CF HT without any problems. Basically the engineers dream.

@anbu94 9 месяцев назад

I agree with having something that works out of the box like a proper tool. I am a mechanic and engineer so I love to tinker but it's also nice to be able to just print when you need to. However I don't like their ecosystem. You are basically locked in and at their mercy just like DJI. But just because I don't feel it's right for me, doesn't mean it isn't right for someone else.

@chillermrq 9 месяцев назад

@@anbu94 you cant reach this kinda functionality without a closed system.. thats a fact. Take apple as an example. All their products communicate seamless and even the hardware with software runs smooth af just because they have it in their own hands. In case of Creality just look at the steps for a simple firmware update. Heck even Prusa aint that simple. I can fully controll my P1, X1 and AMS with my App alone. But you are right. Bambu could scrap the P1 or X1 and we could do not much about it. But thats a risk i take. The next similar printer would be maybe a Ultimaker s5 with material system.. wich costs about 5 times more than a X1 with ams.

@anbu94 9 месяцев назад

@@chillermrq absolutely no argument there. The convenience is amazing and the products mesh very well with each other. It also pushes other companies to grow and develop to keep up. I guess for me it's a case of "you can't have your cake and eat it too". I would love a carbon X1 that I can tinker with and run klipper on... Wait that's a voron. I guess I just want a voron that I don't have to build myself. 🤣

@johnh.miller1112 10 месяцев назад

A1 flow calibration is HUGE and makes the A1’s very tolerant of various filaments. I’m printing PLA, TPU, and PETG and they print like a dream. I love the ease of use and have four A1 minis with two A1’s on the way with AMS. The added $160. for AMS was a no brainer and I’ll probably use them as filament storage so I can easily change colors. I mainly manufacture single color parts and AMS poop is a problem I don’t want to deal with unless it’s an occasional print for personal use. Getting rid of a dozen Creality E3 S1 Pros that are collecting dust. I have two P1S and they put my four K1’s to shame. I’m rapidly becoming a Bambu fanboy because they make my production so much easier with quality, speed and ease of use. In my opinion Bambu is going to kick butt with the quality and value they offer. Prusa should be worried. I can always dust off my E3’s if Bambu becomes an issue. Maybe I’ll keep them for a while until I have some more miles on the Bambu units.

@Cecina- 10 месяцев назад

Can you expand on why and how your two P1S put into shame four K1? As money wise they would cost the same, but you should be able to get more output with four printers instead of two.

@andreas.grundler 10 месяцев назад

I just hope you don't start acting like some fanboys. The atmosphere under some review videos is so toxic that you need a gas mask.

@johnh.miller1112 10 месяцев назад

⁠@@Cecina- My P1S printers at this point produce smoother surface finish than my K1’s. That’s very important to me since I sell the parts. I use Creality print on the K1’s and Bambu studio with the P1S. Later I may be able to improve K1 print quality by improving or changing slicers?. Also the P1S is more tolerant of various PLA material flow characteristics. The P1S has a stronger extruder than the K1. The A1 flow calibration blows away both the K1 and P1S for tolerating filament with poor flow characteristics. Higher temperatures help on the K1 but it works marginal. I’m hoping someone designs a solid aftermarket upgrade for the K1 extruder. Also nozzle clogging on the K1 is a pain in the ass because of the frequency and difficulty clearly it and changing nozzles. My P1S clogs infrequently but I still don’t like changing nozzles. The quick change nozzles on the A1’s is a godsend. The engineer that designed it deserves a raise. I have a good feeling about the A1’s for ease of use and low maintenance. Time will tell. I’m a one man show and don’t have time to babysit printers.

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

I agree, K1 has some surface artifacts when printing small things on small radius curves. P1Ps have way less issue in this area. I bet the A1 will be more reliable than the Bambu COREXYs. They are so simple.

@boggisthecat 10 месяцев назад

How reliable are the ‘AMS lite’ units? My AMS (on a P1S) is a PITA. I need to do a complete teardown, clean, and rebuild. Didn’t much like long print jobs with some abrasive filament in use.

@HWTDS 9 месяцев назад

I had several printers mostly creality they were all garbage. The bambu a1 is the only one that worked perfectly out of the box and has printed almost perfectly every time. I just want to print and it has not disappointed me yet.

@asdfg2466 9 месяцев назад

Cool it with the truth man, your gonna give the fanboys a heart attack.

@moreCowBell1001 10 месяцев назад

"The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread"...Someone must have signed an agreement lol

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

But it really is. It's the best printer ever!

@METALCRAFTIMAGINEERING 10 месяцев назад

Always enjoy your honesty

@chicketydee5499 10 месяцев назад

You don't disappoint! Great review and very honest. I hope you'll share any hot-end swapping you do to your Ender 3 V3 KE because I love that printer but I want to switch it to use a 1mm nozzle (or larger) for a specific production pipeline. Thanks also for an amazingly entertaining livestream obtaining the A1!

@jonathanraypollard 10 месяцев назад

Love it! Don't know how you can keep a straight face the whole time like that. 😂

@wayne7824 10 месяцев назад

Nailed it!!! Keep uo the great work. I dont care what that company says about you. I'll follow. Cant wait to see you build robots and learn something useful.

@ThePrintHouse 10 месяцев назад

Nathan, you've had the printer for less than 24 hours.........

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

Tomorrow I will have the "long term review" ready 😂

@harrysheppard3745 10 месяцев назад

I disagree that the A1 is for people who aren't tinkerers, if you want a tool that works, can do multi material prints all for comparable money than the competition it's a good fit. What I'm trying to say is not everyone who makes things wants to be worrying about there tools being inconsistent.

@Killswitch1411 9 месяцев назад

For me I stopped Overclocking my PC because at the end of the day I want a stable platform to use.. I ended up tinkering more than doing actually using my PC. I got a Flashforge AP and and A1 and I like modeling something and just worrying about the basic settings and just printing.. I just can't be bothered about tinkering with the printer. For me its just a tool.

@johnnysun6495 10 месяцев назад

You seem to have forgotten the whole selling point of the a1 series. "Colorful 3d printing for everyone." There's really no multicolor printer for $600

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

Maybe I would know that if they sent me a press pack like the rest of the RU-vidrs. I have to make this shit up as I go along!

@valentino_vamos 10 месяцев назад

Lol I got a bambu A1 commercial interrupting your video. That means bambu indirectly still pays you for this 😂

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

Now they only have to pay me $0.005 per impression. Smart company, keep an eye on them 😅

@dhuliram1404 10 месяцев назад

“Our tech is smart so we get the luxury of being stupid.”- Dee brown mamba

@xchgre7487 10 месяцев назад

I come from an anet a8 and an ender 3, it is true that I like to improve the things I have. But at a certain point you get burnt out. I spend more time adding and fixing things than printing. I've gone over to the other side. Now I want to print as I have more of a hobby and I want something that is reliable, I hit the button and wait x hours and I have a thing. For this reason I bought the a1, and if I want print quality I use the resin. For me, Corexy in hobby doesn't make sense, maybe for exotic materials, but realistically, 99% of people use PLA.

@DEMVEXplay 8 месяцев назад

Hi,what do you think about the a1 and Kobra 2 pro is Kobra better than v3 ke?

@zravel 10 месяцев назад

I really enjoyed this review, it's very rare that I watch 26 minutes. It will even be difficult to get 2 minutes from me for a bed slinger, so very well done. It's actually very surprising that so many people even take ther time to make a video for a bed slinger but everyone has to decide that for themselves.. It`s there time so they can spend it however they want... But the comparisons here were very interesting. I even watched it 3 times. Since I don't have a print farm, a new printer also has to solve a new problem - So I'm looking forward to the FLsun and ChromaPad and the printers that then fit best the ChromaPad. Good guides, especially in size and possibly even with a partially heatable print plate on the big ones (if my wishes come true ;-).... So it's more a question of how you get the small parts on the big cheaper ones. Maybe even a printer version without a print head since Chromapad comes anyway... and becomes very interesting with TPU, where the printing speeds collapse anyway. If I spend 150 USD more and get more, I'll think about it - but if I add. another 150 USD ones more (so 300USD) and have a complete set of spare parts... there's a trend allover, Printers become in general a "littel more complex " or let my say a littel more expensive to mantaine and so on geting stuck faster in the "final round box" anyway. Well, if you get the printers for free and will get a quick support line - If not, two printers are better than one. It's just good to have the first spare parts on a second printer next too in order to get a rough root direction on spare parts..... So 150 USD more become 300 USD and than you already will ask yourself if you want spend a 1000 or 600 USD...... Especially when the 1000 USD (2 x 500 USD) Version will be obsolete in 6 months anyway.....

@BryonGaskin 10 месяцев назад

Love this review. I like the dig at Bambu I also like how you are taking the "Best 3d printer" and going component by component and saying how those features are found in a lot of other printers.

@shyguy.654 10 месяцев назад

Only on paper, doesn't mean the others have the same quality. You can't compare a creality printer with a bambu lab one.

@urgamecshk 9 месяцев назад

Except you literally can because they're so similar @@shyguy.654

@Demeetrius 8 месяцев назад

@@shyguy.654exactly this review was not good. Bambu Labs engineering, innovation at their price point, time to get setup, and quality blows all the other printers on this table out of the water.

@shyguy.654 8 месяцев назад

@@Demeetrius exactly

@gaaZolee 9 месяцев назад

Excellent video. We all have to keep the 3dprinting open and do not allow DJI happening in 3dprinting world.

@sierraecho884 10 месяцев назад

Finally, I was waiting for the video.

@RobertGlazier 10 месяцев назад

Great review Sir. Thanks.

@JBMetalShop 9 месяцев назад

Best review i have seen of any bambu machines

@gabrielpalileo3294 9 месяцев назад

For someone who just wants to print in PLA with good detail and surface quality - which you you recommend between the A1 and the Flashforge Adventurer 5M (the non pro one)?

@NathanBuildsRobots 9 месяцев назад

From what I’ve seen the 5M is faster and produces higher quality prints

@abotolo 10 месяцев назад

Ahahahah I’m just into 5 minutes of this video and I’m loving it.

@jonroth6981 9 месяцев назад

Where is Nathan?

@NixCM 10 месяцев назад

there are people out there that just need printer to work like their inkjet already does. While I dont think 3d printing is there yet, Bambu seems to be trying to go for that

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

Truth. But who is excited about their 2D printer? The ultimate goal is to make 3D printing boring.

@NixCM 10 месяцев назад

@@NathanBuildsRobotsexactly, why is 3d printing even a hobby? it was always meant to be a means to an end!

@chrischurch4551 10 месяцев назад

@@NathanBuildsRobots I spend so much time dicking with my ender 5 and ender 3 when I could be diving into fusion. Main reason I'm even debating a1. It's tough, because I don't necessarily like the way The operate. Heckuva price point with that 4 color printing too

@waytooslow 10 месяцев назад

Speed is nothing if print quality is lacking. The constant drive for faster -- hmmm

@МаксимГранатов-з6н 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for your review This one or Ender 3 V3 KE? What is better to buy now from your experience?

@legendaryshadow6428 6 месяцев назад

just get this cus its good, plus it has support and will do unlike the ke

@sevargas1 9 месяцев назад

What printer would you recommend that’s pretty easy to use? Still a novice and I thought Bambu Labs A1 was going to be a nice upgrade to my Ender 3 v2 but now I’m not sure anymore.

@DrHanes 9 месяцев назад

Its Night and Day! Have a Ender 3 v2 + Vyper and now a A1. The Ender is Trash compared to the A1!

@Zachary3DPrints 10 месяцев назад

I wasn't subscribed to your channel? OMG... now I am

@Enchanted3DPrints 10 месяцев назад

I just want Creality to give us a multicolor option from factory(i know they have a dual but I want 4 color or more)! I cannot believe they arent developing something and honestly cant believe they havent brough one to market yet

@CHRIS_CREATIONS 10 месяцев назад

Honestly I think it's a marketing strategy. They are working on a multi system but they are also utilising inventory & excess stock of parts to build new printers to lock in the beginner & Hobbyist market and expand Globally so they can then have a larger profit margin to allow for expansion of R&D and there online support and HQ locations globally. From all the research I have done it's seems this way by there expansions, There new machines utilising parts from other machines 2022-2023 inventory and build a larger platform for expansion and annual return to redesign new platforms.

@Novillow 10 месяцев назад

how it's against a elegoo neptune 4 pro?

@Chris-1974 10 месяцев назад

You forgot to mention it is the only printer there that can print multi color!

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

True, it has the AMS system

@elchavode6479 10 месяцев назад

I'm going call it, the name of next bambu printer the A1 XL

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

I think you might be right... Making a large coreXY machine is hugely expensive due to shipping the cube. You can only fit 2 printers on a pallet.

@corcorandm 10 месяцев назад

Can't wait for the fight club slinger edition

@ModitRC 7 месяцев назад

But which one of the competitors has ams?

@FuttFel 10 месяцев назад

I just built a Voron 0.2, I'm in the process of tuning it and will get ADXL345 accelerometers in the mail next week so I can do input shaping. I think that says enough really. These printers have their place, but the open-source aspect of what brought us to where we are now, is very important and I hope we never lose this. Corporations these days seem to get more and more scummy by the day, so I hope all the open-source projects keep trucking on, whether it be Klipper, Marlin, the various Linux flavors, free software and so on.

@jaredhinman1901 8 месяцев назад

It is also nice for the guy who likes to tinker who needs to print something time sensitive while tinkering with their printer.

@3D_Printing 10 месяцев назад

Slow Frame rate of the camera that points and nothing... Is this a plus

@joeking433 10 месяцев назад

Yeah, dumb. How much more would it cost to have a decent camera? Maybe they'll sell an upgrade camera?

@turrboenvy4612 10 месяцев назад

The reason I am drawn to the A1 is out-of-the-box multimaterial without spending almost $1000 or more. No one else is offering that under $600 like the A1. Most upgrading and tweaking I do to printers is solving issues that came from the factory. If there aren't issues, I don't really care about modding. However, the lack of modability combined with the 80c bed temp limit is a problem. I thermoform my parts by putting them on a 100c bed (on my Anycubic i3). The A1 wouldn't be able to do that and I wouldn't be able to make it do that.

@thomaskok6352 10 месяцев назад

The bed can go up to 100c!

@lucase764 10 месяцев назад

Hot Hot Hot

@seanzhouz3478 10 месяцев назад

The bed goes to 100C

@3dcraftedvisions 9 месяцев назад

Excellent review

@syko2695 10 месяцев назад

Do I sense a hint of title sarcasm? Edit after watching the first 90 seconds: well, it wasn't limited to the title lmao ❤

@Pugwash. 10 месяцев назад

A tad!

@P.R.Shriram 10 месяцев назад

With a bit of salt 🤣

@sUASNews 10 месяцев назад

Well done

@sprocket5526 10 месяцев назад

Even though I'm an electronics engineer, I just want a tool that works out of the box. I dont have time to fiddle around in my private time, when I just want parts for table top gaming etc. And in a professional setting, just NO.

@johnmaestrale 9 месяцев назад

Great video. I had issues with my V3 SE and had to return it. I ordered the KE and was wondering if I should just go A1. I just want a printer that’s reliable with minimal tinkering. I would appreciate your recommendation. Thanks

@Gamer317. 9 месяцев назад

I’ve had the ke for almost a week now. Its pretty much plug and play.

@Carlos-eo3iu 10 месяцев назад

Nathan trolling bambú hard 🤣

@jayson8118 10 месяцев назад

Pmsl ; I love it ; I think we shall have to get out the burn kit for Bamboo!

@grahamhanks906 9 месяцев назад

I'm a creator - I want to create without hassle, that means I want a simple experience that just works without having to tinker. for me the fun is in the creative process not the engineering.

@technologyanimals 10 месяцев назад

What happens after 500 hours of printing? What kind of maintenance will need to be done? They only mention cleaning the hot end. I don't care about it working out of the box as much as it still printing perfectly 500 hours in.

@gorgonbert 10 месяцев назад

There obviously aren’t enough 3d printers in that room… you can still move in and out… so goal not yet achieved 😂

@Shrapnel_Warning 10 месяцев назад

The rest of them are in a pile in the backyard lol

@sevenbravopro 10 месяцев назад

This is F’ing hilarious

@cpayne8177 10 месяцев назад

It is not black. 😂 many of us who have been part of the rep rap process are seeing 3d printers become simple appliances. I appreciate your point of this video. Cheers

@synonymdonut 10 месяцев назад

Love the complete honesty. This “review” makes me realise that the A1 is very average.

@elleryfg7853 10 месяцев назад

Well since you asked. Lets see A1 vs MK4 in the fight club

@grigoryshokhrin494 10 месяцев назад

I’m so happy to see someone being real about bambu. Really sick of the fanboys propagating this company and it’s terrible business processes. Never thought people would line up to give up their user rights and smile about it.

@wforider4786 10 месяцев назад

Love the bed head, you rock😂 dude!

@mortdigo 9 месяцев назад

For me it is the easy nozzle replacement setup of this Bambu Lab A1 that got me excited :-) Yep, I know, I am easy to please.

@KevinKaneTheOneTheOnly 9 месяцев назад

I'd like to see the A1 "fight" the other quad-color printers in a $560 price range. That would be an interesting video.

@NathanBuildsRobots 9 месяцев назад

Not really, Bambu Lab is the only one currently. Now, in 6 months from now, we might have some good competition

@KevinKaneTheOneTheOnly 9 месяцев назад

@@NathanBuildsRobots Hmmmm, ya don't say ;-)

@exasperated 9 месяцев назад

The AMS and claimed plug and print were what got me tempted, but the floods of excessively enthusiastic reviews is making me uneasy. I'm thinking of waiting a while to see what "real users" experiences are like when the "Bambu sent me this but I swear I'm going to be objective wink wink" push is over.

@jamesocker5235 6 месяцев назад

Nathan" this entry level printer is the same as the others" nuff said

@jessemilo7145 9 месяцев назад

So whats the price difference between the a1 and the printers u compared

@jessemilo7145 9 месяцев назад

I might be considering buying one

@chancemcclendon3906 9 месяцев назад

For me it wasnt the specs, it wasnt the fancy ecosystem or anything it was the fact that you can print over and over and over and not think about anything. no figuring out filament settings, not thinking about how to solve problems. When it has a problem it tells me how to fix it. Im not in the hobby of fixing problems im in the hobby of printing stuff reliably without effort. Im four colours at once again with no effort at all.

@AlaskaTony 10 месяцев назад

you nailed the Bambu is the Apple of printing. they control all the parts and software and ensure it just works. I prefer to tinker and control what I purchase, but see why some would want this

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

I use my macbook more than my laptop. Macbook has about 4x the battery life and better UI (keyboard, trackpad, speakers, screen) All the speed and moddability in the world won't make up for that! But of course I prefer to have both to use each for what it's good at. Hopefully 3D printing settles down in a similar way, and doesn't go full DJI mode where there's only 1 option for buying drones.

@speedy3d524 10 месяцев назад

That’s exactly what I said

@enhidri160 10 месяцев назад

@@NathanBuildsRobots100%

@3dpathfinder 10 месяцев назад

I made the comparison on another channel to saying that Bambu seems to be going towards the way of Apple of 3d printers. To your point, Bambu does not want tinkers to buy their printers they are made for the mass just like apple phones not android. Apple wants you to use only their components , their AirPods their screens their service centers . Bambu is the same way. Its meant for the people to take out of the box and print and dont think to much.

@krikkenstein 10 месяцев назад

Nice take, but I’m thinking king it’s a good example how the 3D printer market is maturing. If I’m buying a dishwasher, it might be fun for some to tinker with it and do some upgrading. But at a certain point when the user base grows people expect to have a dishwasher that doesn’t need tinkering. Just work and even m, maybe have a great user experience… and as a CR10 user and tinkerer I think I ended up losing interest because of the constant need for tinkering. In the end every time I actually wanted to print something my CR10 was half way in an upgrade that eventually didn’t even happen and left me disappointed and losing interest. But please keep on making great critical video’s! We need the broad perspective!

@NorwayVFX 10 месяцев назад

Agreed, I myself also grew tired of tinkering with my printers and switched to Bambu. Printing went from a hobby to a tool that I need to be able to rely on. My main hobby is cars and I love to tinker with those still but I don't have the time to work on my printers all day as well. I don't see open source printers ever disappearing, but I believe there is space for both open source and closed source machines. Just like how ''everyone'' did simple repairs on their own cars and household appliances back in the day, and we slowly evolved into things needing way less maintenance. People like me still love wrenching on old cars but the majority just want a easy-to-use product that works out of the box.

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

Your hobby is cars, but do you have one car that might be a little more boring yet reliable that you regularly drive? I think tinkering is only neccesary when the machine's requirements are not well known. Then you can modify things to make the printer suit the purpose. However, if you have 1 specific use case, and set of design goals, you can design it to meet those requirements in the most reliable and simplistic way possible. This should be the goal of a 3D printing manufacturer that wants to go mainstream. Also, software and UI is hugely important.

@OlavAlexanderMjelde 10 месяцев назад

I dont have a 3dprniter but bought the A1 Combo for this reason. I love tinkering and hardware etc. but with a 6 year old at school, working full time, playing games, watching movies, overclocking pcs etc. I dont really have the time to do hardware hacking of 3dprinters. I would love that bambu labs would let people flash other firmwares if they wanted, but for me the 3dprinter most likely I will just change hotends, change plates, do maintenance and print.. Im no pro and the 3dprinter will idle a lot. So for me its more to have something that just is easier to use and that doesent need a lot of specialized knowledge about 3d printers. Now I do want to learn of course, but I'm kindof not in the pro printer league and will never be, it will be used mostly for things I need for hte car, house or toys for my kid.. Not earning money or printing 24/7.

@GuysShop 10 месяцев назад

Everything you say is true Nathan. Except for the "user experience" and the capability of the AMS, it really doesn't offer anything much different than the other priunters in it's price category. If you are looking for a tool, not a hobby, it is a great printer to start with.

@marywel7615 10 месяцев назад

Can we use the AMS with those other printers or just the A1 and A1 mini?

@zalatanyy 10 месяцев назад

You can only use AMS with Bambu Lab's printers, AMS is for X1 and P1 series, AMS Lite is for A1 series

@zaphodbond 9 месяцев назад

Thank you, this seems like a pretty fair and informative review. I though I was taking crazy pill when I went on reddit and everyone was screaming to get a Bambu Lab A1 and that everything else was shit but weren't able to articulate any explanation for their preference.

@Enchanted3DPrints 10 месяцев назад

Damn Bambu. You dont send this guy machines for HONEST reviews so he will buy one and give the only unbiased review on youtube. Ill stick with creality for now. They might not be the best(up for debate) but atleast they go open source and are ALWAYS doing promotional sales.

@Enchanted3DPrints 10 месяцев назад

Also good on you Nathan for not being a shill

@TaylorBrain 5 месяцев назад

You’re speaking as a tinkerer. Which is valid, but some of us have a life so we don’t want to spend hours getting these things to print adequately.

@NathanBuildsRobots 5 месяцев назад

Lol... ok, tell that to the thousands of ppl that are getting roped into fixing their heated bed cable 👨‍🔧

@serdalo5035 10 месяцев назад

Hey Nathan, I have a sv07 what mod can I do on it for auto Z offset? Any other mods I could do?

@NathanBuildsRobots 10 месяцев назад

Auto Z offset requires a loadcell to be done properly, so until someone comes out with that or a Lidar scanner that can take the proper measurements, you'll have to do z offset manually.