OrcaSlicer vs Bambu Studio: Is It Actually Worth Switching?
I use Bambu Studio for essentially everything on this desk, and I am, by my own admission, comfortably locked into
Reviews & Radar
This is where new printers, tools, software, and products get a proper look. Reviews and Radar covers the hardware I am considering, the tools worth knowing about, and the launches worth paying attention to — written from the perspective of someone who prints every day rather than a lab running benchmarks. Some of these are machines I own and have tested. Others are products I am watching closely, evaluated honestly using independent reviews and real-world community data. Nothing here is sponsored and nothing is written to a brief. If something earns a recommendation it is because the evidence supports it. If it does not, that gets said too.
Bambu Lab UV Printers: What’s Confirmed
Two weeks after the R1 laser teaser landed, a second and genuinely different Bambu Lab expansion story broke — this
The LightMake L4: Four Independent Print Heads, Zero Belts, and a Kickstarter Full of Big Claims
Every few months a Kickstarter lands promising to solve the multi-colour waste problem once and for all, and this site
ColorSmith: The HueForge Creator’s New Tool Solves a Problem I Didn’t Know I Had
The HueForge post from a few days ago covered a year of genuinely good experience with the tool that turns
HueForge: A Year of Using the Tool That Turns Photos into Filament
I have been using HueForge for over a year now, and it is one of the few pieces of software
Bambu Studio’s Assembly Guides Are Now Live — What Changed Since Beta, and Where to Actually Find the Button
All3DP’s Carolyn Schwaar covered this on August 20, 2026 — Bambu Studio Can Now Build Assembly Guides for Your Models
UCL’s New Lattice Structure Is Three Times Stronger — And It Changes How I Think About Infill
UCL Engineering published a piece of research on August 20, 2026 that I want to spend proper time with, because
SolidVents: A Genuinely Useful Pattern Generator for Surfacing Prints
The exposed-infill technique covered in the texturing post uses whatever pattern happens to be sitting in the slicer’s infill library
The Best Resin Printers for Home Use in 2026
Everything on this site so far has been FDM — the A1, the A2L, filament, extrusion, all of it. Resin
Bambu Lab R1 Laser Engraver & Cutter — What Do We Actually Know?
Bambu Lab has announced a new product category for the first time since the H-series brought a laser module to
Bambu Lab Is Researching AI That Splits Models Into Parts — Here’s Why That’s a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds
All3DP’s Carolyn Schwaar reported on August 10, 2026 that researchers from Bambu Lab and three Chinese universities have published an
Is Adding the Laser Module to a Bambu H2D Actually Worth It?
The H2D was always the machine sitting at the top of the Bambu range that I had no immediate use