3D printer manufacturer Bambu Lab’s newest firmware update for its A- and P-Series 3D printers has ignited backlash within the 3D printing community, with critics accusing the company of reinforcing its already closed ecosystem. Rolled out last week, the update…
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AI and 3D printing from Hugging Face
U.S. tech company Hugging Face, in collaboration with French robotics developer The Robot Studio, robotics store WowRobo, robotics part seller PartaBot and Chinese IoT hardware supplier Seeed Studio, has unveiled the SO-ARM101—the latest addition to its open-source, 3D printable robotic…
Bambu Lab controversy continues: Orca Slicer rejects new Bambu Connect
Chinese 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Lab’s latest firmware update has intensified debates within the 3D printing community as Orca Slicer, one of the widely used third-party slicing tools, refuses to support Bambu Connect. According to The Verge, this decision contradicts…
Bambu Lab Responds to Backlash Over New Firmware Update
Shenzhen-based 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Lab has launched a new firmware for its X1 Series of 3D printers. The optional security update introduces authorization and authentication controls for key 3D printing operations, altering how third-party software interacts with the 3D…
Build Your Own Metal 3D Printer with the New Open-source reAM250 Project
Researchers from the Technical University of Munich’s (TUM) Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management have developed ReAM250, a new open-source metal 3D printer. The reAM250 project allows researchers and other organizations to build their own laser powder bed fusion…
New open-source Millennium Mill Milo v1.5 CNC kit for under £1,300: technical specifications and pricing
LDO Motors, a chinese electric motor manufacturer, has released a kit for the Millennium Mill Milo v1.5 open source CNC mill from Millennium Machines. Millennium Machines is an open-source community project which seeks to make desktop-sized subtractive manufacturing equipment accessible…
Bambu Lab enables open-source firmware on the X1 3D printers
Shenzhen-based 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Lab has announced in a blog post that it will allow users to install third-party firmware on its X1 FDM 3D printer through an optional firmware update. Accessing this update will require users to sign…
YouTuber develops innovative open-source resin 3D printed shockwave jet engine prototype
Youtuber Integza has developed a functional open-source resin 3D printed prototype of a detonation-powered pulsejet engine. While pulsejets, valveless engines in which fuel is injected into a pipe before being ignited in a series of pulses, have been around for…
This custom 3D printable AirPods case features a USB-C port and it’s free to download
Ken Pillonel, the modder extraordinaire who developed the world’s first USB-C iPhone, has now designed and 3D printed a USB-C AirPods charging case. The best part? It’s open source. Until now, all of Apple’s hardware products have featured the company’s…
New open-source 3D printable ‘Polyformer’ recycles plastic bottles into filament
California-based industrial designer Reiten Cheng has developed a unique device that’s capable of turning discarded plastic water bottles into functional 3D printing filament. Known as the ‘Polyformer,’ the modular machine is specifically designed so that most of its parts can…
