Does Creality uses V6-compatible nozzles?

If one of the stepper drivers blows up (it happens and since it blows/damages the PCB it can’t be repaired) can I swap in a generic motherboard without replacing other components like the screen?

So your suggestion would have been the Creality K2 or K1C?

Tell me.

Looked last week into it and concluded that BamubLab is still the best option.

Runner up was Creality. They are equally proprietary these days.

Name one that is competitive to the BambuLab P1S combo.

Keep in mind that the operator is an average Joe, who knows nothing about 3D-printers, with minimal training on the job to do the maintenance.

Competitive (explicitly) includes cost: If I need to pay $2k for a printer that works just as well as an $800 option it is not feasible (for a business) to spend this much more.

I love DIY.

At home, I run and build DIY printers but you can’t deploy them in a business/production. Why? As soon as there is a printer that isn’t it just works with easy (and documented) maintance procedures the business needs to hire not only a worker but a worker who knows 3D printers. That’s bad.

Printers like the Sovol SV08 and Biqu AMS (still not launched) aren’t just there yet.

Combined with the BambuLab pricing on the A1 mini and P1S it is pretty difficult to buy FOSS.

Prusa is close with the Core 1 but they don’t have an good AMS package for their printers (their MMU lacks a enclosure/easy to deploy setup). They propably know it but don’t have the answer avaible.

Equally on the econmics side it is difficult: The BambuLab P1S killed the (FOSS) market.

If I compare a 1150€ BambuLab X1C against the 1350€ Prusa Core One I would likley prefer the Prusa product/ecosystem. With the P1S it suddently is 700€ compared to 1350€ for a machine that will produce the exact same parts with a near identical cycletime, uptime and opperating/maintance cost. The decission in favor of BambuLab is easy.

What a bummer.

Had high hopes of them cooking it in secret and releasing it with the potential for 4th axis stuff with the robot arm in the future (software update) or at least the community could use it as an easy-to-purchase devkit to develop their own opensource software solution.

With this being just a concept and them BUYING their award (sic., paid to apply with a high success of “winning”) turns this into a nothing burger.

Pricing will be interesting. My bet is on $5k. Trying to position it against machines like the BCN3D sigmax or Ultimaker Factor S4.

what i expect:

• IDEX
• nozzle is raised and lowered
• single extruder motor that is switched between both filament paths
• A1 mini style hotend/nozzle
• some other modules that will be useless. The laser module will be interesting as this converts a 3D-printer to a laser class 4 system(*).