H2C Is On The Way: Here’s How It All Started
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I hope you’re as excited as we are about the launch of H2S. After all, H2S is more like the product everyone has been asking for over the past three years; essentially a bigger X1C. But this launch also brings us a tough question: should we let everyone know

Seems like Bambu Lab has a new trick for reducing waste. Rather than a toolchanger like the Prusa XL or the Snapmaker, they’re swapping just the nozzle. As far as I can tell from the video, the printer still has a second nozzle which won’t swap in and out, meaning a print can be run with 7 nozzles (six from the Vortek system, plus the second nozzle in the toolhead). So if you’re using 7 or fewer filaments, no pooping is necessary.

The cool bit here is that they’re using wireless chips in the nozzles to communicate the thermistor data to the printer, so no pin-based connections are needed.

Pretty cool solution, I think. I assume you’d still need a prime tower, but that’s a small amount of waste if they’re eliminating poop from purging the nozzles.

I’m curious to see how they’ll handle calibration, surely the nozzles aren’t all going to be perfectly aligned all the time.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’m personally keeping an eye on Prusa. They’re working on a new multi-filament system for their new Core One printer and it might be worth the wait.

    It is pricier because it is made in Europe but at least the company has a solid reputation for quality, repairability, consumer respect, and more ethical business practices than whatever enshitification hell Bambu is heading down the road towards.

    • Bluewing@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      Be aware that old Joe Prusa even says that open source printing is dead at this point.

      So I would expect to see even Prusa locking their new ideas away behind patents.

      • BastingChemina@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 days ago

        This is what Prusa is planning to use on the Prusa Core One.

        The picture released by Prusa shows 7 Indx head on a Prusa core one and has been relayed by Bontech. Prusa Core One MMU4

    • Rexios@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 days ago

      If you’re talking about the MMU3 it’s the same solution they’ve had for their other printers. The only “new” part is the mounting hardware for the Core One. I have one and it’s awesome, but it’s not new.

      • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 days ago

        They might ditch that - they published photos of a Bondtech INDX and the Core One. It might be,that they ditch the MMU3 all together.

      • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        They announced that they were working on a new system that would depart from the MMU3 for the core one.

        • Rexios@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Do you have a source for this? All I could find is information about the MMU3.

          • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            It’s mentioned in one of their official videos about the core one on their YouTube channel. They really should put it on their website in written.