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Late to the party, as always, but I recently picked up a BambuLabs X1 Carbon. Cor, isn’t it good!

Leaving aside controversy around some recent firmware updates and noting that in the latest update they’ve added some support for Sunlu filaments for the AMS, it really is astonishing quite how far this tech has come - with a bit of CAD expertise, or just using files from others, you can end up with actual, finished physical products in hand.

Like drones, this feels a little bit like witchcraft. It may be the fact that I’m firmly Gen X, but does nobody else seem to be unbelievably excited by the fact that these things that weren’t even conceived of in the the 90’s are suddenly here and within the reach of literally anybody?

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February 26, 2025

Assumptions, we make them… So I mentioned something about drones being witchcraft. Possibly wizardry. But turns out that I was overconfident in the magic - I have a Project,

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Holidays, procrastination & tech I went on my first holiday in nearly 4 years. It was lovely. Four days on the Isle of Arran and I barely scratched the surface, will definitely go

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