The Bambu printers are quite locked down. So you are only getting the functionality they want you to have. So the Core One, (Marlin) or Qidi, (Mainsail and klipper), might be your best choice. Crealty seems to be improving with their new models. But their past history makes me very leery yet. I lean to Prusa because I’ve owned one for 5 years now and they still support it. Customer support is valuable to me and worth the extra cost in the purchase price.
My A1 mini when you look at the printer settings, on the first screen, under g-code flavor, says Marlin(legacy). It’s not even Marlin 2. Plus it’s locked so you can’t even change it something like marlin 2 or klipper.
Bambu and Prusa both run Marlin. So there is no klipper to be had there. If you insist on klipper, you might want to check out the Qidi Tech Plus 4. It should tick all the boxes you are looking for. And Qidi says they are coming out with their own version of the AMS for the Plus 4 called the Qidi Box sometime this first quarter. Whether they hit that target date or not, I cannot say.
You should take a gander at the weekly 1.1 Dev version. So much extra goodness!
I do NOT recommend it for serious use. Like all development software stability can be up and down. But man, I do like it!
Kind of sort of. It’s seems to be OK for 2D CAM like routers or lasers. I wouldn’t want to try even a barely complex multi axis part in a machining center.
Not being mean spirited, but I suspect NTI’s lawyers looked at it and decided that the benchy wasn’t worth trying to defend in court. That horse had left the barn long ago. And it will buy some good will for at least a little while.
This project is not for me either, but I will not criticize it nor those that want to build it. You could do that also at no effort or cost to yourself.
Sometimes it’s not the end results that matters the most. But rather the journey it took to get there.
Have you spoken to your healthcare provider about Viagratm? It may be able to help with your issue. (Please seek immediate medical help with an erection lasting more than 4 hours).
Yeah, it’s -11F/-24C right now and the humidistat is saying it’s 22% right now. Usually, in the summer time humidity ranges from 50% to 75%. But I have stored filaments like PLA and even PETG open on a shelf without care for over a year. Even now, the boxes they are stored in are not air tight.
I have never need to dry PLA and I do dry PETG occasionally if I really need that super clean print. Otherwise I just either manually remove the slight stringing of the PETG or I totally ignore it. I do keep a spool of TPU around and I do dry that before use. But it seems to holds up well for several weeks just hanging on the printer.
It’s the number of walls you print that will determine just how long the box will hold the water in or out. I find 4 walls to be about as water tight as I need. But I’m not sealing anything valuable either.
Edit to add: This would be an excellent need for that brick layer printing to be used. The offset layers would provide far better sealing than the standard layer method we commonly use.
Still got to have the money. And police departments need to have budget to replace equipment.
I have been elected to a city council several times and have gone over police budgets and it was no easier for the police to get money replace a squad car or get any of the “goodies” you think are so easy to them to get. There is only so much money to be had in any city budget.
Let me introduce you to ‘We ain’t got no money to buy anything’ trick.
You act like you don’t understand police departments need grants to buy those things also.
That’s unlikely. You need to get grants from the federal government, chiefly the DHS, to get money to buy major equipment. There ain’t anymore federal grants remember. Small volunteer, (70% of all fire depts in the US), services are especially reliant on those grants to replace major assets.
Source: Been on committees to spec and buy ambulances and fire trucks and turnout gear. Even boots and gloves sometimes.
Randomly and badly as a rule.
Oh don’t worry, states are already working on mileage taxes for EVs. A few even already have them in place.
I switched my trusty old Mk3s+ over to klipper a few weeks ago. It was even easy enough to add an accelerometer for input shaping too. While still not as fast as the Bambu mini sitting next to it, I have increased the printing speed to 70mm/s to 90mm/s for quality prints. And I can achieve a bit over 100mm/s print speeds with a small drop in quality.
It will give the old girl more years of useful life.