As many of our customers may have already noticed, there is a third-party firmware being developed by the X1 Plus team, which has become a hot topic in the community. Our first awareness of this firmware was through some Youtube videos, which led to my last blog post. Initially, we
Awesome to see that Bambu and the X1 Plus devs are talking.
the wording and way they said they would “have a web page” where you can unlock it made my decision easy. If I have to hope that in the future they have a website that will let me get a special code to “unlock” my printer then I dont really own it.
As soon as their announcement came out, I got a Voron 2.4, it will be my printer and no one but me gets to say when its EOL.
Right now you can install the custom firmware, put it in lan only mode and disable internet access.
Then no one can tell you when its EOL
This website is just because they closed the loophole in the firmware that allows flashing with a current update (you can downgrade your firmware to open it again) and to make it as clear as possible
I disagree. I like their tech, I think it’s cool how they (nearly?) managed to have an inkjet-like experience for an FDM printer. (As in, click, wait, take off print). However, I got (rightfully, though I say so myself) spooked by the news that their printers started randomly printing worldwide due to an error in their cloud services. That should just not happen. Ever.
Voron kit is already shipping, hope to start building next week. The idea of click and print is nice, but not at the expense of being part of the “apple” of 3d printings behest.
You’re not being dramatic enough - if you switch your point of view from user to creator. I’ll try to explain my point of view:
This is a hardware company just learning oppen software at best and there are a lot worse scenarios.
The homepage is an artificial loop. Correct me if I’m wrong but LAN mode wasn’t even fully functional on rollout.
They create awesome and exciting machines but that you point a critique of their closed system business practice as “overly dramatic” is interesting.
From my point of view notions like this will increase the split of the communities even further (makers VS users VS builders).
This doesn’t have to be a bad thing from my perspective nor is it the fault of Bambu - it’s just that individual people with their own focus will have a vastly different perception of how much intensity (aka drama) is appropriate.
the wording and way they said they would “have a web page” where you can unlock it made my decision easy. If I have to hope that in the future they have a website that will let me get a special code to “unlock” my printer then I dont really own it.
As soon as their announcement came out, I got a Voron 2.4, it will be my printer and no one but me gets to say when its EOL.
You’re being overdramatic here
Right now you can install the custom firmware, put it in lan only mode and disable internet access.
Then no one can tell you when its EOL
This website is just because they closed the loophole in the firmware that allows flashing with a current update (you can downgrade your firmware to open it again) and to make it as clear as possible
I disagree. I like their tech, I think it’s cool how they (nearly?) managed to have an inkjet-like experience for an FDM printer. (As in, click, wait, take off print). However, I got (rightfully, though I say so myself) spooked by the news that their printers started randomly printing worldwide due to an error in their cloud services. That should just not happen. Ever.
Voron kit is already shipping, hope to start building next week. The idea of click and print is nice, but not at the expense of being part of the “apple” of 3d printings behest.
You’re not being dramatic enough - if you switch your point of view from user to creator. I’ll try to explain my point of view:
This is a hardware company just learning oppen software at best and there are a lot worse scenarios.
The homepage is an artificial loop. Correct me if I’m wrong but LAN mode wasn’t even fully functional on rollout.
They create awesome and exciting machines but that you point a critique of their closed system business practice as “overly dramatic” is interesting.
From my point of view notions like this will increase the split of the communities even further (makers VS users VS builders).
This doesn’t have to be a bad thing from my perspective nor is it the fault of Bambu - it’s just that individual people with their own focus will have a vastly different perception of how much intensity (aka drama) is appropriate.