Comment on The Saga Of Hacking A Bambu X1 Carbon
sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
a Bambu Labs compatible heat sink, an E3D V6 ring heater, and a heat break assembly are required
a fan was sacrificed to mount a Big Tree Tech control board. Most everything ended up connecting to the new board without issue, except for the extruder.
made a custom mount for the ubiquitous Orbiter extruder.
The whole project was nicely tied up with a custom-made screen mount.
So, other than the enclosure and print bed, what’s actually left of the original printer? It seems like the way to get a Bambu printer to run FOSS is to open the box from Bambu Labs, toss everything inside the box in the trash, drop a custom built printer in the box, and then proceed with your unboxing.
papalonian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The… Whole printer? The only thing they changed are the hot end and the control board. The entire construction of the printer, including all of the linear motion components that make these things so rock solid, haven’t been touched. Swapping those two components out isn’t anywhere close to a “custom built printer”. Besides firmware, it’s 90% stock, and it’s trivial for someone with the expertise to get a klipper profile built for something like this.