Anycubic Kobra S1 combo vs Bambu Lab p1s
I want to buy my first 3d printer but i don’t know what to choose between these two.
I’ll print mostly with petg and just need a reliable printer.
Price wise they’re basically the same as of writing this.
I don’t know if i’ll need it so if i get the one without the ace pro the Kobra S1 will be cheaper.
Which would you buy? Thanks
Hello,
I was at Micro Center, and I've been wanting a 3D printer for a while now, so I impulse-bought the Creality K2 Combo. I'm capable enough, but I don't want to troubleshoot too much. Should I get a Bambu Lab instead? I don't care for walled gardens, but I don't want more things to troubleshoot. I run Linux and homelabs, but I just want something that works. I don't mind paying more for something good. I'd also like to do multi-color.
Please tell me why I should keep my K2 or move to another brand, or even a higher quality printer.
Cheers,
Hi, everyone,
I’ve seen resin 3D printing become much more common in clinics, especially for models, surgical guides, and temporaries. But I’m curious about permanent crowns.
For my workflows efficiency matters.
Resin 3D printing may help me streamline production and reduce some of the workload and costs, but how are they performing in terms of strength, accuracy, fit, and durability?
Would love to hear from dentists who have experience with this.
Thanks in advance.
Hey so I am getting into the 3d pritnting and wanted to buy 3d printer, right now i have saved around 400$. I was thinking about buying bambu lab a2l but I also heard that they have many problems and have bad reputation, if anoyone could advise me antyhing I would be realy greatfull. Sorry for my english, it is not my first language :(
I am going to buy a 3d printer. I have been researching which 3d printers might be a good fit for me.
Here are the criteria that I am prioritizing:
The printers I am currently strongly considering are:
I have heard that Bambu is easy to use and set up but they are becoming less open source. I don't completely understand the impact of that or why it matters or how exactly it will impact my use case but if there are alternatives that are really good, I am open to going with them.
To start, I am mostly going to print scale versions of the furniture in my house so I can figure out how I want to rearrange things or if certain things will fit certain places. After that, eventually, I will print more functional objects and play with different materials.
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Quadro. Four independent toolheads. Kickstarter price $649.
But if you reserve before August 25, you get it for $499 — $150 cashback plus $50 store credit. That’s $400 off the $899 MSRP.
After the 25th the benefit drops from $200 to $100. Same printer, $100 more.
Here’s what $649 buys: four toolheads on one gantry, each holding its own filament in a sealed dock. No unloading. No purging. 90% less waste, 70% less time than systems that purge. 300×300×300mm. Open source. One year warranty.
3,000 people reserved before we’d even shown them a price. Reservations are $20 and fully refundable — and the $20 comes back with your cashback, so holding your spot costs nothing.
We also ran a price-guess giveaway last week. Winners are announced in our Facebook group.
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Just finished designing this fly trap 👀.
I made two sizes, a small version mainly for fruit flies and a larger version for bigger flies as well. The funnel openings let them in while making it difficult for them to find their way back out. Pretty simple design and prints really easy.
Just dropped this file on makerworld for anyone interested 🙌.
Check comments for link.
Happy Printing!
you can get it here for free: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3187568-sheath-for-teaser-combs#profileId-3605803
Someone local to me is selling 2 bambu p1s for 250 each. Should I go through with it
our current options are:
- snapmaker U1
- bambulab X2D
- flashforge creator 5 pro
looking at it, we are a bit concerned about the U1 being exposed as we are living in a humid country. then the X2D, with the bambulab issues.
we are looking into a printer that's most intuitive, can carry a range of materials, and would be future-proof. let us know your thoughts or experiences in using them, TYIA!
So I mostly print PETG and some ABS. I sealed up the whole printer inside those foam pad. It will be quieter and less toxic I think. I hope this will reduce electricity cost as PETG and ABS need high bed
Temperature. But I’m worried this is bad for electronics and the power supply because HI doesn’t have a fan for cooling the main board and power supply and it’s about 50°C inside the case. By the way I hope this is good for drying the material on the rack.
Our son has raised funds and we stated that we would match it. For $600, and multi-color-printing, what would be the best option? He is PC literate and understands the basics, as we had a cheap-o $150 one that just kept messing up. Refurbished is an option.
Is the Bambu A1 Mini the right first printer for an 11 year old who is brand new to the hobby or is there another vendor or model I should consider?
Hi everybody,
I got my Bambu Lab A1 yesterday, and i started a few prints on it. But today morning, the prints have these imperfections of it everywhere.
It’s Bambu PLA Basic btw.
It was printed at Standard speed.
What do you guys think it is?
Thanks in advance, y’all the best
hello
I have never owned a 3d printer and my only experience in 3d printing tech is watching YouTube videos and such (so a noob😀)
I would like to get into 3d printing as I would like to print some parts for my other hobby
I will be mostly starting of with PLA and I want a printer that mostly works out of the box.
I will be keeping the printer in my garage so during winters the temperature can go down as low as 13C. for this reason I was leaning towards a enclosed option
my target price point is below 350 euros. here are my contenders so far
what are your suggestions?
I took off the hotend and cleaned it, lubed the z and y parts, and calibrated it. Also bought a new build plate. Any tips to fix this?
Hi everyone,
We've been building LocalMesh for the past few weeks, and the beta just opened.
Short version: one photo goes in, and you get a 3D Gaussian splat (~60s on a 5090, ~2min on a 4060 laptop), then a textured mesh** (UV-unwrapped, photo reprojected, AO, normal map) exported as GLB/PLY/OBJ.
Everything runs locally. No upload, no queue, no credits. Turn off your Wi-Fi, it still works.
The mesh part is the bit we're proud of. Poisson reconstruction on gaussian centers drapes a tarp over your object: a Poisson solver has to close every surface, and can never say "I can see through here".
So instead: 60 virtual cameras on a golden-angle sphere, gsplat renders depth for each, every ray carves out the empty space it travels through, and the 60 depth maps fuse into a 768³ TSDF volume. Carving instead of guessing. (gs2mesh principle, written from scratch.)
Other things you might enjoy:
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- No CUDA toolkit, no Visual Studio, no Python, no admin rights on the client. We ship a fat gsplat wheel with precompiled kernels, RTX 20 to 50.
Limits, upfront: one photo means the back of the object is invented, not measured. Windows + NVIDIA 8 GB only. No Authenticode cert yet, so SmartScreen will grumble on first launch.
7 days free, no card to start, then $39 once, no subscription, because there's no cloud to pay for: https://local-mesh.com
Break it and tell us, that's what the beta is for.
Happy to answer anything about the pipeline in the comments.
Budget: $500-$1300
Location: USA (Not California)
Prefer pre-built, but willing to do a kit if necessary
Prefer relatively less maintenance
I would want at least a 250x250x250 build area, but more would be nice too. For the odd thing larger than that, I would be willing to find ways to make smaller pieces that fit together. I strongly dislike the idea of filament waste, so features that combat that are valuable to me. While I might color switch for some projects, I think I will honestly be using a lot of black PLA, with some TPU for certain special cases. I would consider other materials, but have no existing desire to use them unless I need to for some special reason. I would mostly stick with black, but periodically do something in multi color. I would mostly do one off projects, but would have cause for bulk when making modular organization pieces, or perhaps knockoff legos or something. I would want an enclosure because I am weird about air quality. I value control, privacy, and open source. However, I do not absolutely need that if other factors adequately persuade me to compromise.
I am currently primarily considering the Bambu P1S, Snapmaker U1, and Lightmake L4. I am not knowledgeable enough to make an adequately comprehensive list of pros and cons, but here are my thoughts so far.
Bambu P1S:
Pros: Cheapest, established ecosystem, it just works, and enclosed by default
Cons: No filament waste reduction, smaller build area, no toolchanger, Bambu seems to be leaning anti-control/privacy, poor camera refresh rate, and 300C toolhead.
Snapmaker U1:
Pros: Reduced waste, toolchanger, slightly larger build area, better control/privacy
Cons: Higher price, enclosure is an addon, less tested ecosystem, poor camera refresh rate, and 300C toolhead
Lightmake L4:
Pros: Reduced waste, toolchanger, far larger build area, better control/privacy (they are open source), conversational AI slicing, less maintenance/tensioning due to no belts, monolithic die cast frame, 320C toolhead, excellent camera refresh rate, and 4x print speed in bulk printing.
Cons: Expensive, enclosure is an addon, untested ecosystem, risk of vaporware (but if I wait for confirmation then the only acceptable pricing is gone).
I am open to other options, but these are the ones that my research has led me to focus on for now. I think I most like the Lightmake, but the price is up there, and I wonder if it is overkill for me. Of course it also carries the most risk. I like the U1, but by the time you buy the cover, the price is awfully close to the Lightmake, and you get less build area. The P1S is tempting because it gives you quite a bit of the pie for a steep discount. However, its build plate is on the small side, you don't get a toolchanger, and I am a bit biased against them given their semi-recent controversies. I am strongly opposed to government intervention (California), and fear that Bambu would be one of the first to bend the knee. However, pragmatically I have no intention of making anything they would have a problem with.