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Looks like Bambu is getting more enshittified. I am so glad I didn't let my recent frustration at my clumsiness with my Prusa steer me into Bambu-land.

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[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's already happened with the Anycubic Kobra 2 Max - no way to connect directly, everything must go through their cloud to print, via their slicer only.

[–] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good to know, that's another one that won't ever make the recommendation list then

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I tell a lie. You can print from USB sticks, but not from a computer via USB.

[–] RDAM_Whiskers@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nothing swapping the main board out won't fix

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't know that was a thing...

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seen some threads on reddit of people swapping out for skr boards, found a git repo doing that for an adapter kit but does look to have things documented.

End of the day, it's just some steppers, sensors and heaters, klipper supports a bunch of different printer types (bed slinger, core xy, core xz, cartesian, polar, like seriously a lot). Hard part on some of these would more likely be connect components to the board, need to know voltages and pinout for example, but if you can figure that out you're good. Klipper is amazing and you can replicate a lot of custom stuff in macros.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, but you could also kit build a similarly capable printer if you're willing to go that far, and at that rate you may as well give Anycubic the finger in the process and not provide them with any of your money...

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oh for sure, I'm firmly on the side of building a kit or sourcing your own for something like a voron v0.2 for people unfamiliar/uncertain; not a huge investment, will learn a lot assembling it and you'll have an abs capable machine that's yours at the end of the day. I do still absolutely recommend prusa kits too or second hand older ones, super easy to modify and there's and absolute wealth of information (and mods) for them.

Board swaps and conversion kits more for people who already have something and would rather modify it than buying a whole new machine, less waste than tossing the whole printer and getting a new one. Could use as a platform for something like a switchwire, there's an Ender 3 conversion out there for example, and looks like there's an anycubic Viper one too and another