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 —
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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
What Is Stringing, and How Do You Actually Fix It?
You pull a print off the bed and it looks like a spider has built a web between every tower,
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
Bambuddy vs Spoolman vs Manyfold: Which Self-Hosted Tool Do You Actually Need?
Between the self-hosted tools post and the later dedicated Bambuddy deep dive, this site has now covered three separate self-hosted
UCL’s New Lattice Structure Is Three Times Stronger
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