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Excellent article. It is very hard to understand a few things about Prusa, lately: 1. The Nextruder looks 5 years behind Bambulab nozzle switching, without to

Excellent article. It is very hard to understand a few things about Prusa, lately: 1. The Nextruder looks 5 years behind Bambulab nozzle switching, without to mention the cost of a new nozzle. A clogged nozzle is a non issue in a Bambulab printer, but it causes me a big cost and more work with my MK4 (which has the same extruder as the Core One). 2. How is it possible that these printers still lack at least a cheap webcam? 3. One of the strengths of Prusa should be support. It used to be very good, years ago. Now the issue the OP is reporting about the app that is not able to detect the principal component in the sound of the belt, is an example of a more extended problem, that one can see in many ways, especially in the MK4 / Core One documentation, that is especially lacking. In general, here the OP is doing the work that Prusa should be doing to provide a better experience, without to mention all the design issues that they are not fixing directly before shipping their printers. I'm also a Bambulab user, and my A1 costed a fraction of my MK4 and it is the printer I always hit because of the zero-issues. It just works. Now companies may have ups and downs, but there is some problem at Prusa: they are still not understanding what's really happening and where their problems are.

bantunes 1y ago
The Buddy3D camera has a firmware update recently, now it can RTSP stream inside your LAN and you can force day/night detection. Also, it saves timelapses to a local microSD. Still not super cheap, but yeah.
omnimus 1y ago
1. I think even on bambu people switch extruder so they have swichable nozzles. Atleast thats what i did on my P1S. There is huge aftermarket with these if you need them. 2. Reasoning i heard is that Prusa printers are used a lot by print farms that dont want them for security reasons and that there are aftermarket cams that are going to be a lot better than what they can deliver. Again cam on Bambu P1S is pretty bad so if you like the feature you end up changing it but because the chip in P1S is pretty low powered you end up adding whole different camera system. 3. This is very good point. I guess they were under pressure to release asap and the docs are rushed / in process. The upside is that they have track record of long support for the products. I am not sure that they are so clueless. I’ve had P1S for some time. It’s great. I wanted focus on 3D printing not on 3D printer. But now? Bambu is update away from not being able to print outside their cloud. There is zero openness. They do everything to stop any kinf of reverse engineering or alternative firmwares. Afaik they might just decide tomorrow that they stop support some of the older models and they simply stop printing. I still ended up messing, modding, tweaking and learning about the Bambu printer anyway. But i also found a lot of use for 3D printer. So idea of buying 3x times more expensive printer kit that will take me 20h to assemble and then even more time to tweak to print as good as Bambu… is OK? Almost intruging? I will know that with care it will work for a looong time i will know how it works and it will be valuable knowledge. It seems a lot like linux vs mac. At some point you bite the bullet and never look back. Or you do and go back.
- kiba 1y ago
  I just buy the built version.
  - omnimus 1y ago
    Yeah i am probably cheap OR i have this false idea that i will ubderstand the printer more…
    - foobarian 1y ago
      I assembled the mk3s from kit. It was long but at least I have a mental model of where things are, and what to remove first if I needed to exchange parts.
    - i_am_jl 1y ago
      I just finished assembling my Core One. I definitely understand how the printer works better than if I bought it assembled. It'll definitely save me time troubleshooting/maintaining/repairing it later. But I spent more time building it than I could ever save during teardown/rebuilds. I bought a kit because I like building stuff, the Core One kit had the same appeal as a Lego model or a model car. If that's not appealing to you, do yourself a favor and buy the completed printer. If you do get the kit, get a couple of ice cube trays to use to organize fasteners; keeping them organized in the bags Prusa sends was a battle I wasn't interested in fighting.
      - omnimus 1y ago
        Thank you! Seems like i am cursed and thus will have to go for a kit.

bantunes 1y ago

The Buddy3D camera has a firmware update recently, now it can RTSP stream inside your LAN and you can force day/night detection. Also, it saves timelapses to a local microSD. Still not super cheap, but yeah.

omnimus 1y ago

1. I think even on bambu people switch extruder so they have swichable nozzles. Atleast thats what i did on my P1S. There is huge aftermarket with these if you need them. 2. Reasoning i heard is that Prusa printers are used a lot by print farms that dont want them for security reasons and that there are aftermarket cams that are going to be a lot better than what they can deliver. Again cam on Bambu P1S is pretty bad so if you like the feature you end up changing it but because the chip in P1S is pretty low powered you end up adding whole different camera system. 3. This is very good point. I guess they were under pressure to release asap and the docs are rushed / in process. The upside is that they have track record of long support for the products. I am not sure that they are so clueless. I’ve had P1S for some time. It’s great. I wanted focus on 3D printing not on 3D printer. But now? Bambu is update away from not being able to print outside their cloud. There is zero openness. They do everything to stop any kinf of reverse engineering or alternative firmwares. Afaik they might just decide tomorrow that they stop support some of the older models and they simply stop printing. I still ended up messing, modding, tweaking and learning about the Bambu printer anyway. But i also found a lot of use for 3D printer. So idea of buying 3x times more expensive printer kit that will take me 20h to assemble and then even more time to tweak to print as good as Bambu… is OK? Almost intruging? I will know that with care it will work for a looong time i will know how it works and it will be valuable knowledge. It seems a lot like linux vs mac. At some point you bite the bullet and never look back. Or you do and go back.

kiba 1y ago
I just buy the built version.
- omnimus 1y ago
  Yeah i am probably cheap OR i have this false idea that i will ubderstand the printer more…
  - foobarian 1y ago
    I assembled the mk3s from kit. It was long but at least I have a mental model of where things are, and what to remove first if I needed to exchange parts.
  - i_am_jl 1y ago
    I just finished assembling my Core One. I definitely understand how the printer works better than if I bought it assembled. It'll definitely save me time troubleshooting/maintaining/repairing it later. But I spent more time building it than I could ever save during teardown/rebuilds. I bought a kit because I like building stuff, the Core One kit had the same appeal as a Lego model or a model car. If that's not appealing to you, do yourself a favor and buy the completed printer. If you do get the kit, get a couple of ice cube trays to use to organize fasteners; keeping them organized in the bags Prusa sends was a battle I wasn't interested in fighting.
    - omnimus 1y ago
      Thank you! Seems like i am cursed and thus will have to go for a kit.