California Is Coming for 3D Printers and Filament: Can Any of It Actually Be Enforced?
Two things happened within ten days of each other that every maker should know about. On 26 September 2026, California
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Bambu Lab S1 3D Scanner: What We Know, the SCANTECH Link, and the Price Question
On 12 October 2026 Bambu Lab officially teased its first 3D scanner, the S1, with a launch pencilled in for
Bambu Lab H3C: What We Know, What We Suspect, and What’s Just Noise
Bambu Lab has not announced an H3C, and nothing in this post comes from Bambu. What has happened is that
Does Mounting the AMS Lite on Top of a Bambu Lab A1 or A2L Hurt Print Quality?
Bambu Lab officially supports mounting the AMS Lite on top of the A1 and A2L, and for a lot of
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
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
Dual BCMU on the A1, Part 2: The Honest Verdict
The first part of this series ended on a genuinely promising note: two BCMU units flashed with the AMS A
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
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
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