True but I mean I wish Bambu would bring something like this as an option :)
I'm very happy with bambu. I love 3D printing but I hate messing with 3D printers, constantly tuning and fixing everything. I really despise that stuff. So bambu is perfect for me. I would never install such a kit anyway. I just want to buy a printer with it and for it to just work.
I know many other people at the makerspace who love tinkering with their printers but it's not for me. Until I got my bambu printers my prints were pretty bad because I didn't put any effort into my printers. Always having misaligned beds etc. I just can't be bothered with that shit. I just used really thick rafts to make things slightly more manageable. They mostly have creality and prusa ones.
> I wish Bambu would bring something like this as an option
And that's what you're left with, wishing a company would meet your needs. With a Prusa, you just go ahead and add the thing and tinker as you wish. Modern Mk4 printers have all the reliability features you are familiar with from Bambu, with the notable exception that they aren't uploading your GCODE to a chinese cloud provider.
Nah then I just wouldn't upgrade it anyway. Or I'd buy the kit and leave it collecting dust like I did with the heat bed upgrade for my old printer. Eventually I did install it but it was years later. The company (printrbot) was long bankrupt by then :')
I just really hate tinkering with 3D printers.
And you don't have to upload, you can just use an sd card. Not that I do because I dont care so much if they see it.
I know prusas have their advantages but so do bambus. They're just different advantages, they're for a different audience. I'm more bambu's audience, not the prusa one. Nothing wrong with that. I just want click and play and the same goes for features such as this. If it needs too much tinkering I either don't do it or I'll do a half assed attempt and get frustrated because it doesn't work right.
The Core ONE is the first Prusa I would actually consider buying. But it's twice as expensive as a Bambu P1S and lacks various features that are optional on the prusa but included on the P1S. Like air filtering, the chamber cam (I know it's bad but good enough for me). And their alternative for the AMS (they call it the MMU) is way less sophisticated, it doesn't do full roll retraction or include a drybox for example. Finally, I have more faith in injection-molded parts than 3D printed ones. They're smoother, more precise, more solid.
Now the extendibility is a big feature but it's not something I would use. I want a printer that I can unpack and go and have minimal maintenance and tinkering on. My hobby is about printing things, the printer itself is not my hobby. It's a tool and it should just work.
So no, so far Bambu is and remains the the go-to brand for me. I have a P1S + AMS and also an A1 Mini, I think it's amazing how much value you get for your money at 180 euro. I actually use the A1 Mini more lately when I have something small to print due to the easily exchangable hotend (I often print small high-detail stuff on it with the 0,2mm nozzle). And it's a lot quieter than the P1S.
And like others mentioned, Prusa is becoming a lot less open source. In the video he mentioned it is because of the Chinese clones which makes some sense but still...
