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The article mentions reverse engineering the code. But is there anything to stop reverse engineering the physical printer itself, improving on it by 10mm build
by _carbyau_ 2mo ago
The article mentions reverse engineering the code.
But is there anything to stop reverse engineering the physical printer itself, improving on it by 10mm build volume in each direction, and releasing that?
It won't be a copy of the Bambu printer AND it can run the same software, truly freely.
- sgarland 2mo agoThere’s no need to reverse engineer it, just build a Voron 2.4.
- simiones 2mo agoDo you mean physically modifying a printer you bought from Bambu, and selling that on? Potentially as a service, where you buy in bulk and re-sell with this modification? If so, I don't see how that would change anything about the software you're allowed to run on it. Or do you mean manufacturing your own printer that is a copy of theirs with 10mm extra build volume in each direction, and with your own software? That may be illegal if they have any patents, but otherwise should probably be ok, and would of course not have anything to do with their software - but you still couldn't take the software from one of their printers and running it on yours, most likely.
- _carbyau_ 2mo agoI was thinking more of a make your own copy of their printer and run free software on it rather than theirs. It just seems like they don't have that much of a moat which is why they are guarding the software bit as much as they can.
- krupan 2mo agoAs long as nothing in the printer's design is patented or trademarked then yes, you can reverse engineer it and sell your own version of it