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
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
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
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
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