Paradox

Any puzzle made by Oskar van Deventer. He’s got a ton of them, they’re all free, and he posts YouTube videos about them all

And frankly, there’s not really too much I want to do that the x1c can’t presently do, so there’s minimal need to go buy a big new expensive printer, or build one

Yeah I’m keeping eyes on the voron.

My next printer must have the following, else it’s not much of an upgrade

• Multiple extruders or changeable tool heads
• 500mm^3 print volume
• Actively heated enclosure
• Lidar and auto tramming
• Ams like thing
• Full opensource
• Core xy. Not interested in a bed slinger

Apparently the h2d is crippled if you use offline mode. No cutter or laser support

This is what I was always afraid of. With the x1c they didn’t really take away any hardware features if you put it offline and so the trade-off was acceptable. But locking you out of the physical hardware that you’ve purchased is a whole new story. Kind of like the dishwashers that require an app to do a rinse cycle.

For what the h2d costs you can get an awful lot of printer from a different brand

Fwiw the open source scene literally got started because of a printer

It’s giving me serious pause when looking at things like the new Bambu printer

I really like my x1c, but I haven’t upgraded it’s firmware yet, and probably never will, because the local features are just too good. I know I can replace a lot of the bambu cloud features with octoanywhere, but I shouldn’t have to

Nope, they still use bog standard gCode, but they do have some custom commands for things that are unique to the printer

You can run and save custom gCode on Bambu printers. I’ve got a cold pull script that lives happily on my x1c, and can be triggered any time

And even the closed source nature is only partially so. The x1c already has x1+ firmware, and they just made their own custom expansion board to go with the custom firmware.

If it’s your first printer, the Bambu a1 will give you a ridiculous amount of bang for your buck. I’d highly recommend it

Yes, but a better time was last month during the sale

Honestly I’d just stick to orca slicer