Watchtower3D: A New Cloud-Free Dashboard, and Why Bambu Studio’s Filament Tracking Still Frustrates People
Watchtower is a new entrant into the same self-hosted, cloud-free printer dashboard space this site has covered through Bambuddy —
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.
The Creality SparkX i8: Sub-Second Colour Switching, Far Less Waste — But What Does It Cost?
Creality announced the SparkX i8 on August 19, 2026, and it takes a genuinely different approach to the multicolour waste
Mimaki, Full-Colour 3D Printing, and the Question of Whether Roland Joins the Party
TCT Magazine’s Sam Davies published a genuinely interesting interview on September 8, 2026 with Matthew Stark, Mimaki USA’s 3D Segment
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
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