Recycled and Eco Filament: Is It Actually as Good as Virgin Material?
Recycled filament has moved from a niche, slightly suspect corner of the market to something most major filament brands now
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 Introduces PETG Matte: A Genuinely Interesting Addition to an Already Complicated Lineup
Bambu Lab’s own PETG lineup has had a genuinely confusing few months, and PETG Matte — announced September 28, 2026
The Next Big Shift in Consumer 3D Printing
Speed was the battleground for the last two years of this hobby, and it is genuinely won. CoreXY motion systems
STL Buddy’s Browser Toolset: Image-to-STL, a Free Viewer
STL Buddy is one brand with two genuinely different interfaces, and it is worth understanding both properly rather than treating
The Bambu Lab R1 Has Launched: A 55W Laser That Aligns Itself
The R1 teaser post from last month was written against a genuinely bare landing page — a name, a tagline,
Bambu Studio 2.8.3 and 2.8.4 Betas: What’s New and What’s Fixed
Two beta releases in the space of two weeks — 2.8.3 Public Beta on September 8, 2026, and 2.8.4 Public
Stratasys won $27.6 million from Bambu Lab in a jury trial
On September 18, 2026, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas found that four Bambu Lab-related entities had
The Best 3D Scanners for Home Use in 2026
Everything on this site so far has started with a digital model — downloaded, generated, or designed from scratch —
Is Prusa Still Worth It in 2026, or Has Bambu Won?
The X1 Carbon EOL post asked whether a discontinued machine still mattered. This post asks a bigger, blunter version of
Bambu Lab Just Made Its Filament Genuinely Competitive
An email landed from Bambu Lab UK with the subject line “Filament Prices Just Dropped!” and, unusually for a marketing
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 —
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