A lot has happened in 5 years; I was working as a maintenance tech for a print farm maintaining Prusa MK3s, that job died of covid, my attention turned elsewhere, I’ve been occasionally 3D printing stuff I need for my shop on my old reprap until I replaced it about a month ago and I’ve had a lot of shit to catch up on.
Yeah I bought a Prusa, and it’s clear they got blindsided by Bambu and they’re still scrambling to catch up. What Prusa used to do well, they still do well, what they used to do badly they now do even worse and what they used to didn’t do they’ve started a token effort at making it look like they do now.
yeah i think prusa really needs to lean much harder into open source… like thats kinda their biggest selling point against bamboo, but there only half-arsing it imo
like an AMS system… why have they not taken one of the open source projects and made it an offical prusa thing, provided financial backing, kits, and developed it?
IMO they could be years ahead of bamboo if they just took all the work the open source community is doing and ran with it, providing a kinda polished, easy version of the DIY side of 3d printing
heck even made their online print farm management system self-hostable and open so people could extend it… that’d absolutely crush bamboo for commercial operations
yeah it’s a very common feature among slicers these days
A lot has happened in 5 years; I was working as a maintenance tech for a print farm maintaining Prusa MK3s, that job died of covid, my attention turned elsewhere, I’ve been occasionally 3D printing stuff I need for my shop on my old reprap until I replaced it about a month ago and I’ve had a lot of shit to catch up on.
i think since bamboo entered the market everything changed and the entire industry kinda went warp speed :p
i’ve had a few printers, but until i got a bamboo i was “excited by the possibilities” more than actually doing things
now im printing loads, and have been since i got the printer a couple of years ago
Yeah I bought a Prusa, and it’s clear they got blindsided by Bambu and they’re still scrambling to catch up. What Prusa used to do well, they still do well, what they used to do badly they now do even worse and what they used to didn’t do they’ve started a token effort at making it look like they do now.
yeah i think prusa really needs to lean much harder into open source… like thats kinda their biggest selling point against bamboo, but there only half-arsing it imo
like an AMS system… why have they not taken one of the open source projects and made it an offical prusa thing, provided financial backing, kits, and developed it?
IMO they could be years ahead of bamboo if they just took all the work the open source community is doing and ran with it, providing a kinda polished, easy version of the DIY side of 3d printing
heck even made their online print farm management system self-hostable and open so people could extend it… that’d absolutely crush bamboo for commercial operations