I just picked up the bigger brother A1/AMS combo on sale for $550 after tax and shipping -- after being away from printing for a couple years, seeing this thing just work, and at the speed it prints at... it's a whole new game. It's mesmerizing to watch (and not hear).
Just bought one 3 days ago. Should be here next Monday. Can’t wait to get it in. I have had such bad luck with my ender 3 after about 3-4 years of on and off use and multiple upgrades. Finally ready to try something that just works.
I hope to start seeing you tune profiles for the Bambu and Orca slicers for the Bambu machines. I have the X1C, and I'm thinking of getting an A1 Mini as well. My Elegoo Neptune 3S is gathering dust in storage because I just can't be bothered with it.
My A1 mini arrived with a noisy/clicky Z-axis. I sent a video to Bambu support and they promptly sent me a replacement Z-axis. I was pretty happy with the support... that is until I realised what was required to perform the remove and replace process. You have to literally disassemble the entire printer, as far as I can tell. I'm going to return the entire printer and buy another instead. If that one has trouble then I'll give up on them. I was so happy with the mini and the support until I realized what they expected their "beginner" printer customers to do to fix a defective unit. I find this daunting and I've been working with, and building, 3D printers since 2013.
I've known about the A1 and there are plenty of videos about it. I'm glad you got one, but let's talk more about this PCBWay prining on the circuit board. That is really, really cool. Thanks for sharing!
Would love to see more with this or the bigger A1. I just picked up an A1 combo after spending a few years with my Ender 3 v2 and using your videos to help me improve it and get better with Cura. This and some OrcaSlicer/bambu studio videos would be wonderful for the community.
I've had a Bambu A1 Mini with AMS since January. I've run probably 100 prints or so, with the longest being about 24 hours. It has been flawless and the best prints I have ever had. I also have a Ender 3 Pro converted to V2, as well as a Mingda Rock 3 Pro. Neither of these has produced as good of prints as this A1 Mini. I cut my teeth for the past 4 years on these older units and learned a lot, due to a lot of issues and modifications. The A1 just works, and works, and works. So far nothing has been required from me. I plan to get the bigger A1 at some point and sell the Ender and the Mingda.
Thanks @FilamentFriday I'm from a hilly/mountain State in India called as Himachal Pradesh. Your videos motivated me to buy a 3d printer. Thanks a lot.
I have an A1 (regular size) and the X1 Carbon. It rendered all of my other half dozen or so printers useless. I can't believe how much time I used to spend fixing and modding. Bambu lab changed the game. I hope they keep it up
Best feature of A1 and A1 Mini is the nozzle. Fast, easy swap. I added one in my Voxelab Aquila 😅 Only drawback is that the length of the nozzle changes _a lot_ with heat + height when changing varies a little. A1s make it by using nozzle as sensor.
I had a thought I would like to share with you. When you were talking about the four color printing, I wondered: How could color print be functional? I'm not dismissing the fact that it can enhance the appearance of an object, but I am wondering how the colors could function. Great video, I'm going to look for the drawers now.
Colors can function to provide information, like builtin readable labels, visual indicating of orientation in parts where shape can't be varied or wouldn't have enough contrast, etc.
I bought my ender 2pro after watching one of your videos. I upgraded to the A1 mini about 6 months ago, for all of the reasons you mentioned. Mine sits next to my desk and is my "daily driver" my tinkering.
Nice video. Bambu lab is now available in South Africa. I am seriously looking at the A1 mini for my print farm. Here they still cost the same as an Ender 3 S1.
Looked at a Ender 3 v3 at Micro Center when I was visiting Dallas last week at $158 but after your comments on the A1 mini I might go that way. Need a second priner!
Been using an A1 Mini for a couple of months now, liked it enough to pick up a P1S refurb from Microcenter (Mono, I may get an AMS down the line, but mostly to do support in a second material that snaps clean off. Mine is not quite as quiet as yours appears to beI may need to ad some lube in the Rail trolleys. The noisiest portion however is at the start of the print job when it's working out flow dynamics, it's doing vibration tests in X and Y and that gets noisy. Otherwise it's generally well within reason. I know at least one maker who's done voice overs turned and realized that during that last set of takes he's had the A1 Mini sitting there doing a print.' I picked up the A1 Mini because my Ender 3v3SE decided to loose the path between the extruder drive and the hot end. Who knew that it might not be a good idea to print PETG in a printer with a PTFE tube acting as that guide. I may bring it back into operation or my K1 (which has had other problems but has that critical piece of infrastructure as well. My imagined 'fix' is to take a piece of thin wall stainless steel tube in 2.0 mm ID, and cut it to fit the space between in both cases. One of the things you may want to look at with the A1 MIni is the tool less nozel replacement feature. There are both 0.2 and 0.6 nozzles, as well as hardened nozzels in a variety of bores that can be useful for speed and or for technical materials. I wouldn't generally recommend an A1 MIni for technical materials other than PETG, though I am mostly relegatinging even that to the P1S. My biggest complaint though isn't with the printers. It's with the print management. I'd much rather use Octoprint and a local slicer. That's me though. I have found it interesting that the P1S in some cases is faster at printing the same model as the A1 Mini even though the A1 MIni is printing in PLA, and the P1S is almost exclusively getting PETG. Same model, same settings, larger bed and build volume, but somehow faster. I'm OK with that just find it interesting. I enjoy the A1 Mini sitting on the coffee table in front of me, and the P1S in my den. Other people, perhaps they would prefer something else. That's OK.
As a Linux user, I will note that the Bambu Labs studio App Image package has some serious stability issues. Namely it cashes if the printer runs out of filament, or has pretty much any other problem . Right now I just started a print, that should be printing OK, but since it's in a different room (on a different floor) I'm going to have to go and effectively touch the box to see if everything is OK there or not.
After a half dozen Ender 3's... I'm done tinkering and fiddling. I've got 3 Sovol sv07s and I just grabbed the A1 mini... I need my machines to jsut work. I'm impressed at how easy setup is on the Bambu printer. The app and print quality is top notch. It's small but mighty.
A1 mini is great, however it has its own strange issues. If you disable the Dynamic Control Flow at the start of a print, you get bulges on the corners of the print and there is no way that you can adjust it with bambu studio. Whether you do manual flow calibration or not, you still get bulges on the corners. If you enable DFC at the start of the print, it will waste a lot of filament which is not good at all.
I'm your #8 Top Patreon Supporter and I have a Ender-2 Pro that I got right after you mentioned it on your Channel. The Ender-2 Pro has worked flawlessly, but I did notice that it has fallen off the radar with little or no content in a while. I'm headed out to MicroCenter now to get an Bambu A-1.., I'm really interested in your CHEP-Profile if you have one for the Bambu A-1!
I was thinking of getting the A1 with the AMS Lite. I don't have the space for it. I'm going to save up and get the P1S with the AMS that's on the top of the printer. Plus the P1S will be so much better.
It’s really only better for more materials. Speed is close. Working on the P1S is much more difficult and the regular AMS is a pain when it jams. They both have pluses and minuses but honestly A1 combo is best bang for buck. It’s roughly half the price of P1S combo.
I bought an A1, let me tell you, i never enjoyed printing stuff as much this before! i have couple of ender 3s midified to max but i was speding too much time fixing and less time doing something.
I need some help I have ender 3 neo printed last night got thos morning turn it on got blank screen check all the cables downloaded new firmware version nothing works can some please help me
That is a WIDESPREAD feeling across the whole spectrum of printer manufacturers 😅. I would be so much better off if I had waited 4years, saved that money and got in on Bambu at the Kickstarter… That said if you don’t enjoy the journey you’re probably in the wrong hobby 😊.
@@bernardtarver Please elaborate. Fast, accurate prints off of an inexpensive printer sounds exactly like what 3D printing should be. I personally own a first gen CR10 which has met my needs for years but the speed of this A1 has me ready to purchase a second printer.
@@TC-hl1ws The A1 is not a race to the bottom… at this point that is a completely baseless claim. I have the A1mini and it has been by far the most successful, consistent and quality printer I’ve owned. There are many ‘closed ecosystem’ concerns, privacy issues (that also persist throughout anything connected to the internet), but the fact is after spending so much money so many other ways on different ‘quality printers’, The Bambu prints have become by definition the best money I have spent on the hobby.
But I guess you learned quite much from it. So the printer was a hobby by itself. What do you gonna do when this Bambu breaks down? If it's possible to repair it ... your Ender knowledge is going to help you big time!
I bought the A1 mini back when they came out. I have not had any use for my other printers since. Being able to print 3 times faster than my Prusa MK3s and at just as good a quality has made all the difference in my custom mechanical robot build projects that I do for RUclips. Just made them more fun to do when the parts can be made so quickly. Glad to see you got one now. Can't wait to see what you do with it and share with us.
I have a stupid question, how much space does an A1 mini use when printing? I have an Ender 5 that I created sides for out of acrylic sheets. Would the A1 mini fit inside if you removed the print bed of the Ender 5, and use the "skeleton" of the ender 5 just as an enclosure :)
On the underside where the filament droops, why not put a small ramp at about 55 degrees. Any modern printer should be able to print that without support. You would end up with a small flat on that bottom side, but no post processing.
He went over to the light side and enjoyed it. Be careful lego is sue happy when it comes to stuff like this. They protect the snap-together patent. It makes it easy for them when you say it is lego-like.
Those drawers should have curved inside corners, a fillet or chamfer will do. Why? Since they’re for small parts, the corners are where the parts hide when your finger goes in to get them out. Yes, you can pull them out and use tweezers but that’s just a bother. At least the front should have a curved bottom inside corner to drag tiny parts out.
Actually, as good as it is, the full size A1 makes more sense and provides the best bang for the buck (again) if you’re not planning to use it mobile. There are so many more options for standard size printers aka 22cm, better 25cm, if you have just one printer.
I love my mini. It's a great, quiet, fast companion to my full-size printer. I'm only getting an A1 as my next printer (instead of a 2nd mini) because I want a full-size backup for my X1-C.
This thing made me a believer that printers are finally at a place where i can recommend a new guy get into 3d printing and not be stuck with helping them bandaid their ender3 until the next time it kicks out bad prints.
After the 2nd anniversary sale period end, it's still $199 lol other brands have no chance. I don't care about your childish opinion about it not being open source, parts availability has been the best, customer service is great, nothing really come close. Prusa don't even sell any basic consumable spare parts here.
"I don't care about your childish opinion about it not being open source" ... this childish open source movement made 3D printing available for everyone (including Bambu Lab) in the first place. They copied like everything: Klipper, PrusaSLicer, printables ... and made it closed source to sell and patent is in China. If you don't care: fine. But don't be winey when you loose your job or companies close down ... because of a Chinese one underbidding the market after copying the tech! Everything has two sides.
Those Bambu Lab printers work fine - till they don't. They have very good marketing and show some love to details. But they are hard to maintain and with closed source the future is unpredictable. But there is one good thing: since they copied their tech from open source projects like Klipper ... other brands like Creality and Sovol got their butt up and also brought Klipper printers. And *with the Sovol SV07, the Ender 3 V3 or KE, Anycubic Cobra 3, Creality K1 SE* ... or in the middle price class and Sovol SV08 or the K1c from Creality *there are plenty options* which are often also bigger in build volume, easier to maintain and with the open software you do make sure all your data is not going straight where it doesn't belong. Nevertheless I bought a used Ender 2 Pro in very good condition ... just because for a beginner (like my nephews) sure such a "ready to print" printer is fine for printing ... but understanding the tech, being able to repair something and maybe have a little backup that also "just works" ... cannot be such a bad idea. 3D printing for me is not just printing ... when I "just want parts" I already can order them from printfarms for just a few bucks over night ... it's was also a hobby in itself and to understand the tech.
Yeah the nozzle makes no Sense. Its a small nozzle for high resolution of you want to print a litofane. A goth 3 sizes for my creality 3v3se. 0,2=0.4=0.8=and then the same benchi takes more time on the small nozzle. I dont see the point of buying this machine. Color prints you just pause Cura. And the a1 was a recall machine. It was a fire hazard. And now there 199=. Wel a better stay away from that machine. 😂😂😂
You know the Mini and A1 do not use the same heatbed do you? The A1 used a 220/110 V one, while the Mini uses a 24v one. The Mini is no fire hazard at all. And the A1 is redesigned, so there is no chance for any fire hazard at all anymore. On top of that - People got a full refund, or a replacement for free, or a chance to buy a more expensive model with the price (equal to the refund) reduced. As far as I know, no other manufacture has gone that far to provide service to the buyers. The standard 0.4 makes a lot of sense for starters or normal users, but if you want another size, then you just buy another size. It's a bit more expansive than a separate nozzle, but swapping nozzles is just a few seconds work, because it's a snap-in replacement. I have used Creality machines for years, and they are great, but this Bambulab Mini is just a great little beast. I would not say to people to stay away from this machine. On the contrary. It's great for the money...
You forgot to mention that you add all the pauses in cura manually, manually retract the old filament and insert the new filament, purge it out and prime the nozzle manually and then start the print. For each swap. So of course you have to be at the machine for that. If you want to print a simple clownfish like RUclipsrs have been doing you’d have to spend like 10 hours at the printer doing the color swaps.
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I just picked up the bigger brother A1/AMS combo on sale for $550 after tax and shipping -- after being away from printing for a couple years, seeing this thing just work, and at the speed it prints at... it's a whole new game. It's mesmerizing to watch (and not hear).
I really like how you're blending the printers and printing with the electronics hobby.
I have love my A1 and A1 mini. They have shifted my time back to actual the models rather than tweaking my printer all the time. A true testament
Just bought one 3 days ago. Should be here next Monday. Can’t wait to get it in. I have had such bad luck with my ender 3 after about 3-4 years of on and off use and multiple upgrades. Finally ready to try something that just works.
I got one of these for my birthday last week and am loving it! Out with the old,in with the new!
I'm printing a 6-foot wingspan remote controlled butterfly with my a1 mini in my van right now. Best printer right now imo so easy
Brilliant project, Chuck! Thanks! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I hope to start seeing you tune profiles for the Bambu and Orca slicers for the Bambu machines. I have the X1C, and I'm thinking of getting an A1 Mini as well. My Elegoo Neptune 3S is gathering dust in storage because I just can't be bothered with it.
My A1 mini arrived with a noisy/clicky Z-axis. I sent a video to Bambu support and they promptly sent me a replacement Z-axis. I was pretty happy with the support... that is until I realised what was required to perform the remove and replace process. You have to literally disassemble the entire printer, as far as I can tell. I'm going to return the entire printer and buy another instead. If that one has trouble then I'll give up on them.
I was so happy with the mini and the support until I realized what they expected their "beginner" printer customers to do to fix a defective unit. I find this daunting and I've been working with, and building, 3D printers since 2013.
I've known about the A1 and there are plenty of videos about it. I'm glad you got one, but let's talk more about this PCBWay prining on the circuit board. That is really, really cool. Thanks for sharing!
Would love to see more with this or the bigger A1. I just picked up an A1 combo after spending a few years with my Ender 3 v2 and using your videos to help me improve it and get better with Cura. This and some OrcaSlicer/bambu studio videos would be wonderful for the community.
I've had a Bambu A1 Mini with AMS since January. I've run probably 100 prints or so, with the longest being about 24 hours. It has been flawless and the best prints I have ever had. I also have a Ender 3 Pro converted to V2, as well as a Mingda Rock 3 Pro. Neither of these has produced as good of prints as this A1 Mini. I cut my teeth for the past 4 years on these older units and learned a lot, due to a lot of issues and modifications. The A1 just works, and works, and works. So far nothing has been required from me. I plan to get the bigger A1 at some point and sell the Ender and the Mingda.
Thanks @FilamentFriday
I'm from a hilly/mountain State in India called as Himachal Pradesh.
Your videos motivated me to buy a 3d printer.
Thanks a lot.
Yes, I also started with Ender but the Creality/Prusa seems like missing the race to BambuLab.
So happy to see Bambu Lab shaking up the industry, it's been too stagnant for years.
I have an A1 (regular size) and the X1 Carbon. It rendered all of my other half dozen or so printers useless. I can't believe how much time I used to spend fixing and modding. Bambu lab changed the game. I hope they keep it up
Best feature of A1 and A1 Mini is the nozzle. Fast, easy swap. I added one in my Voxelab Aquila 😅
Only drawback is that the length of the nozzle changes _a lot_ with heat + height when changing varies a little. A1s make it by using nozzle as sensor.
I had a thought I would like to share with you. When you were talking about the four color printing, I wondered: How could color print be functional? I'm not dismissing the fact that it can enhance the appearance of an object, but I am wondering how the colors could function. Great video, I'm going to look for the drawers now.
Colors can function to provide information, like builtin readable labels, visual indicating of orientation in parts where shape can't be varied or wouldn't have enough contrast, etc.
I love mine. I upraded from a Prusa Mini and so happy that I did. MultiColor for the same price.
What I like most about small printers is their low power draw. Both the Bambu A1 Mini and Prusa Mini have 150W power supplies!
That's barely enough to run my hotend. 😂
I bought my ender 2pro after watching one of your videos. I upgraded to the A1 mini about 6 months ago, for all of the reasons you mentioned. Mine sits next to my desk and is my "daily driver" my tinkering.
The A1 mini is amazing. I just got the full size a1 from the sale and it's equally amazing. I'm thinking of adding another before the sale ends.
Nice video.
Bambu lab is now available in South Africa.
I am seriously looking at the A1 mini for my print farm.
Here they still cost the same as an Ender 3 S1.
A few fpv drone part print farms have converted since it prints tpu so easy.
Looked at a Ender 3 v3 at Micro Center when I was visiting Dallas last week at $158 but after your comments on the A1 mini I might go that way. Need a second priner!
Been using an A1 Mini for a couple of months now, liked it enough to pick up a P1S refurb from Microcenter (Mono, I may get an AMS down the line, but mostly to do support in a second material that snaps clean off.
Mine is not quite as quiet as yours appears to beI may need to ad some lube in the Rail trolleys. The noisiest portion however is at the start of the print job when it's working out flow dynamics, it's doing vibration tests in X and Y and that gets noisy. Otherwise it's generally well within reason. I know at least one maker who's done voice overs turned and realized that during that last set of takes he's had the A1 Mini sitting there doing a print.'
I picked up the A1 Mini because my Ender 3v3SE decided to loose the path between the extruder drive and the hot end. Who knew that it might not be a good idea to print PETG in a printer with a PTFE tube acting as that guide. I may bring it back into operation or my K1 (which has had other problems but has that critical piece of infrastructure as well. My imagined 'fix' is to take a piece of thin wall stainless steel tube in 2.0 mm ID, and cut it to fit the space between in both cases.
One of the things you may want to look at with the A1 MIni is the tool less nozel replacement feature. There are both 0.2 and 0.6 nozzles, as well as hardened nozzels in a variety of bores that can be useful for speed and or for technical materials. I wouldn't generally recommend an A1 MIni for technical materials other than PETG, though I am mostly relegatinging even that to the P1S.
My biggest complaint though isn't with the printers. It's with the print management. I'd much rather use Octoprint and a local slicer. That's me though. I have found it interesting that the P1S in some cases is faster at printing the same model as the A1 Mini even though the A1 MIni is printing in PLA, and the P1S is almost exclusively getting PETG. Same model, same settings, larger bed and build volume, but somehow faster. I'm OK with that just find it interesting.
I enjoy the A1 Mini sitting on the coffee table in front of me, and the P1S in my den. Other people, perhaps they would prefer something else. That's OK.
As a Linux user, I will note that the Bambu Labs studio App Image package has some serious stability issues. Namely it cashes if the printer runs out of filament, or has pretty much any other problem . Right now I just started a print, that should be printing OK, but since it's in a different room (on a different floor) I'm going to have to go and effectively touch the box to see if everything is OK there or not.
In Canada, it is on sale $249cdn which is about $178 usd.... What is the quality of the prints compared to rhe more expensive Bambu models?
Great video. Poor ender 2 pro, for its time, it was really nice printer. It’s a shame it never really took off. Loved mine when I had it.
I have an X1C and the A1 Mini. The Mini runs more often than the X1C, it is so quiet and smooth, with amazing quality.
Great video! I think the Lego drawer thing is excellent. My daughter would love those.
After a half dozen Ender 3's... I'm done tinkering and fiddling. I've got 3 Sovol sv07s and I just grabbed the A1 mini...
I need my machines to jsut work. I'm impressed at how easy setup is on the Bambu printer. The app and print quality is top notch.
It's small but mighty.
A1 mini is great, however it has its own strange issues. If you disable the Dynamic Control Flow at the start of a print, you get bulges on the corners of the print and there is no way that you can adjust it with bambu studio. Whether you do manual flow calibration or not, you still get bulges on the corners. If you enable DFC at the start of the print, it will waste a lot of filament which is not good at all.
I have the A1 mini since januari2024 and it's great. I hope that you make some profiles for this printer.
Interesting. I saw this model today and thought it would be an affordable replacement for a 5 yo Ender 3. I’m sold.
Thanks CHEP.
So surprised Bambu didn't send you one of these for a review
I'm your #8 Top Patreon Supporter and I have a Ender-2 Pro that I got right after you mentioned it on your Channel. The Ender-2 Pro has worked flawlessly, but I did notice that it has fallen off the radar with little or no content in a while. I'm headed out to MicroCenter now to get an Bambu A-1.., I'm really interested in your CHEP-Profile if you have one for the Bambu A-1!
I was thinking of getting the A1 with the AMS Lite. I don't have the space for it. I'm going to save up and get the P1S with the AMS that's on the top of the printer. Plus the P1S will be so much better.
It’s really only better for more materials. Speed is close. Working on the P1S is much more difficult and the regular AMS is a pain when it jams. They both have pluses and minuses but honestly A1 combo is best bang for buck. It’s roughly half the price of P1S combo.
That amount of filament was perfect amount for the scraper. I didn't print the holder, just the scraper.
I bought an A1, let me tell you, i never enjoyed printing stuff as much this before! i have couple of ender 3s midified to max but i was speding too much time fixing and less time doing something.
hey my friend have a nice christmas and happy new year
Thanks Paul
Small form factor printers and usefully models for the win!!!
Used my A1 recall coupon on it. So I payed 70€ for the Mini. Best deal ever.
I need some help I have ender 3 neo printed last night got thos morning turn it on got blank screen check all the cables downloaded new firmware version nothing works can some please help me
yes, buy this printer
Kind of feels like we’ve been getting fleeced not only by Creality, but also by Prusa. Been getting wrecked at both ends lol.
Prusas have been overpriced since the beginning. Sure they’re good but they’re not THAT good
That is a WIDESPREAD feeling across the whole spectrum of printer manufacturers 😅. I would be so much better off if I had waited 4years, saved that money and got in on Bambu at the Kickstarter…
That said if you don’t enjoy the journey you’re probably in the wrong hobby 😊.
Enjoy the race to the bottom. There's so much more to 3D printing than printing as fast and as cheap as possible.
@@bernardtarver Please elaborate. Fast, accurate prints off of an inexpensive printer sounds exactly like what 3D printing should be. I personally own a first gen CR10 which has met my needs for years but the speed of this A1 has me ready to purchase a second printer.
@@TC-hl1ws The A1 is not a race to the bottom… at this point that is a completely baseless claim. I have the A1mini and it has been by far the most successful, consistent and quality printer I’ve owned.
There are many ‘closed ecosystem’ concerns, privacy issues (that also persist throughout anything connected to the internet), but the fact is after spending so much money so many other ways on different ‘quality printers’, The Bambu prints have become by definition the best money I have spent on the hobby.
I bought one after seeing this. It’s the bomb!
Does it auto bed level? I bought the Ender2 Pro based on your video.
Yes it auto levels.
Just ordered one from them @ $199... Coming from an Ender 3 that I've spent more time repairing an upgrading than printing
But I guess you learned quite much from it. So the printer was a hobby by itself.
What do you gonna do when this Bambu breaks down? If it's possible to repair it ... your Ender knowledge is going to help you big time!
I bought the A1 mini back when they came out. I have not had any use for my other printers since. Being able to print 3 times faster than my Prusa MK3s and at just as good a quality has made all the difference in my custom mechanical robot build projects that I do for RUclips. Just made them more fun to do when the parts can be made so quickly. Glad to see you got one now. Can't wait to see what you do with it and share with us.
You should add a chamfer to the round poles and holes
That would make it print alot better without drooping
Can you please post a direct link to the 3D prints presented in this video?
$199.00 USD
Chep, can you make a version of your drawers that are double deep?
I have a stupid question, how much space does an A1 mini use when printing? I have an Ender 5 that I created sides for out of acrylic sheets. Would the A1 mini fit inside if you removed the print bed of the Ender 5, and use the "skeleton" of the ender 5 just as an enclosure :)
I can’t find link for storage box parts.
On the underside where the filament droops, why not put a small ramp at about 55 degrees. Any modern printer should be able to print that without support. You would end up with a small flat on that bottom side, but no post processing.
Yup, my days of tuning my ender 3 more than printing on it are done, A1 is next.
Where is the link to download these
seems this is the budget/beginner 3d printer to get!
I have watched in a while since things were based on the enders, but I'll be back to watching since you're going to the Bambu devices..
Thanks for reminding me to visit micro center, its been too long lol
He went over to the light side and enjoyed it. Be careful lego is sue happy when it comes to stuff like this. They protect the snap-together patent. It makes it easy for them when you say it is lego-like.
If you aren’t making money on it then it doesn’t matter
Those drawers should have curved inside corners, a fillet or chamfer will do. Why? Since they’re for small parts, the corners are where the parts hide when your finger goes in to get them out. Yes, you can pull them out and use tweezers but that’s just a bother. At least the front should have a curved bottom inside corner to drag tiny parts out.
ive had 1300 hours on my a1 and 600 on my a1 mini hasn't missed a beat
Btw. My kid is a big Lego guy. Would be great to have something like that with bigger drawers so he can organize his Lego pieces.
Actually, as good as it is, the full size A1 makes more sense and provides the best bang for the buck (again) if you’re not planning to use it mobile. There are so many more options for standard size printers aka 22cm, better 25cm, if you have just one printer.
I love my mini.
It's a great, quiet, fast companion to my full-size printer.
I'm only getting an A1 as my next printer (instead of a 2nd mini) because I want a full-size backup for my X1-C.
Not allowing a second ams lite is annoying, they have the second port so no reason not to.
What slicer do you use with that A1-Mini?
But but…closed source! Right? Isn’t that what a few people are complaining about still?
Just cut a 45 degree angle off of the bottom of the pegs on the bricks. Ez.
I thought we were against closed environment and all for open source? The video seems to have been deleted.
This thing made me a believer that printers are finally at a place where i can recommend a new guy get into 3d printing and not be stuck with helping them bandaid their ender3 until the next time it kicks out bad prints.
CHEP sounds like a changed man lmao.
its $199.00 USD
After the 2nd anniversary sale period end, it's still $199 lol other brands have no chance. I don't care about your childish opinion about it not being open source, parts availability has been the best, customer service is great, nothing really come close. Prusa don't even sell any basic consumable spare parts here.
"I don't care about your childish opinion about it not being open source" ... this childish open source movement made 3D printing available for everyone (including Bambu Lab) in the first place.
They copied like everything: Klipper, PrusaSLicer, printables ... and made it closed source to sell and patent is in China.
If you don't care: fine. But don't be winey when you loose your job or companies close down ... because of a Chinese one underbidding the market after copying the tech!
Everything has two sides.
RIP Ender 3 lol
An Ender 3 V3 is not much pricier but it's bigger in build volume and also very fast. So there are options.
Those Bambu Lab printers work fine - till they don't. They have very good marketing and show some love to details. But they are hard to maintain and with closed source the future is unpredictable.
But there is one good thing: since they copied their tech from open source projects like Klipper ... other brands like Creality and Sovol got their butt up and also brought Klipper printers.
And *with the Sovol SV07, the Ender 3 V3 or KE, Anycubic Cobra 3, Creality K1 SE* ... or in the middle price class and Sovol SV08 or the K1c from Creality *there are plenty options* which are often also bigger in build volume, easier to maintain and with the open software you do make sure all your data is not going straight where it doesn't belong.
Nevertheless I bought a used Ender 2 Pro in very good condition ... just because for a beginner (like my nephews) sure such a "ready to print" printer is fine for printing ... but understanding the tech, being able to repair something and maybe have a little backup that also "just works" ... cannot be such a bad idea.
3D printing for me is not just printing ... when I "just want parts" I already can order them from printfarms for just a few bucks over night ... it's was also a hobby in itself and to understand the tech.
a budget printer with budget quality printing nothing special out of all the 3d printers i own i have not seen any prints that crappy
Yeah the nozzle makes no Sense.
Its a small nozzle for high resolution of you want to print a litofane.
A goth 3 sizes for my creality 3v3se.
0,2=0.4=0.8=and then the same benchi takes more time on the small nozzle.
I dont see the point of buying this machine.
Color prints you just pause Cura.
And the a1 was a recall machine.
It was a fire hazard.
And now there 199=.
Wel a better stay away from that machine.
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You know the Mini and A1 do not use the same heatbed do you? The A1 used a 220/110 V one, while the Mini uses a 24v one. The Mini is no fire hazard at all. And the A1 is redesigned, so there is no chance for any fire hazard at all anymore.
On top of that - People got a full refund, or a replacement for free, or a chance to buy a more expensive model with the price (equal to the refund) reduced. As far as I know, no other manufacture has gone that far to provide service to the buyers.
The standard 0.4 makes a lot of sense for starters or normal users, but if you want another size, then you just buy another size. It's a bit more expansive than a separate nozzle, but swapping nozzles is just a few seconds work, because it's a snap-in replacement.
I have used Creality machines for years, and they are great, but this Bambulab Mini is just a great little beast.
I would not say to people to stay away from this machine. On the contrary. It's great for the money...
You forgot to mention that you add all the pauses in cura manually, manually retract the old filament and insert the new filament, purge it out and prime the nozzle manually and then start the print. For each swap. So of course you have to be at the machine for that. If you want to print a simple clownfish like RUclipsrs have been doing you’d have to spend like 10 hours at the printer doing the color swaps.