Making them shitty, proprietary, and anti-consumer does not make them easier to use.
Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?
LeTak@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
They try to keep it as simple as possible so that really everyone can start printing if they like to. For our luck, we got companies like Prusa and Creality that still allow modifications and have a big community.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Auli@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I’ve been 3d printing for more then a decade and the Bambu printer has been by far the easiest printer I have ever used. It is the one I wel hand to my neice and nephew since it just works more often then not.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Which has nothing to do with it being shitty, proprietary and anti-consumer.
John@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I would name Sovol as a good and cheap producer. The plain Klipper(or on older Devices Marlin)-Firmware is really nice :) Isnt the Creality-K* Lineup also locked down?
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
The K1 has root access and you can use whatever slicer you want. They are probably not the best machines if you want to install plain clipper though.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Not at all. In fact Creality seems quite open for a Chinese company. There’s literally an option on the touch screen menu to enable root access. That gives you full SSH access to everything on the board, no hacks or jailbreaks needed.
The firmware is Klipper based, mostly open but there’s a few binary bits. There are some open source firmware forks but the one thing they haven’t got running yet is the bed pressure sensor so you need to add a separate sensor for leveling and z axis zeroing.
However the stock firmware works great and with some open source scripts you can add whatever you want to it like fluidd/mainsail.
My k1 Max has lived its entire life on a private network segment, only internet access it gets is NTP to set the clock. It’s perfectly fine. I have never registered with Creality cloud nor has the machine tried to force me too. I use orca slicer and feed it the g code and it works great.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Not really. They were going that way but backpedaled after having it made clear that they’re never going to be BambuLab. I have a K1C. It gives root with an on-screen disclaimer. The only real challenge is that it overwrites everything when updating. It’s Linux though, so, if I spend the time, once I setup my home server, I should be able to automate reloading the config.