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Long story short, Bambu Lab consists of ex-DJI personnel who set out to create a cheap, high quality made-in-China 3d printer that was truly plug-and-play, no t
by cityofdelusion 3y ago
Long story short, Bambu Lab consists of ex-DJI personnel who set out to create a cheap, high quality made-in-China 3d printer that was truly plug-and-play, no tinkering required -- but closed source and locked to the cloud. They succeeded.
The problem is that the 3d printer community has always been heavily in favor of open source, open community, very much in the spirit of RepRap, GNU, Linux, and so on. One major point of contention has been that the Bambu printers print awfully well for an alleged greenfield hardware and software project -- it is worth noting that the open source projects RepRap and Marlin have gotten printing to where it is over many years of open source contributions. This has led to rumors that Bambu could have only done this by taking open source contributions and then locking their fork down -- a major allegation since most 3d printing firmwares are GPL based.