We have a large number of companies publicly supporting the efforts of opposing California AB2047 and have signed on to an industry letter at the3dprintingnerd.com/ab2047

MRRF time!

Introducing Prusa Touch for the @BigTreeTech Panda Touch/K-Touch. Now you can get a Prusa Connect like experience on the touch, but using Prusa Link. Check status, start prints, stop them, and even add Klipper Printers. Enjoy. github.com/nomadsgalaxy/Prus…

The CORE One Skins contest is still running - you have 6 more days to finish and submit your design. Create covers, themed panels, magnetic add-ons, button covers, props, or even a full transformation for the CORE One or CORE One L. 🛠️ printables.com/contest/511-c… And if you have a CORE One L, check out the Dark Steampunk Cover by @3D_mon for a fresh new look. ⚙️

Have you ever seen a solid nozzle with a tiny PCB in? Guess what’s that? Quote the post with your answer. We will select 3 most close answers to giveaway related new production! (Till 6/12) @LDOmotors

so what happens when you tease the camera person and editor? Check out @3DMakerNoob talking about his @Prusa3D mod entry, the Core Cassette mod. Check out the quick interview and the link to his project is in the description youtu.be/OM0B-LOKwn4

Confused by the latest 3D printing legislation? This is the premier video breaking down the FACTS clearly and objectively, without the fearmongering. Hear directly from someone (@David_Tobin) actively involved on the front lines advocating for the 3D printing community, along with practical information on how you can help support the effort. @3D_Musketeers youtube.com/live/uSDlp27610M…

I looked at those slicers too... CWE-494 isn't just a Creality issue. It is inherited directly from OrcaSlicer, and all the other vendor forks have it too. This means Bambu can inject its own code into all of these slicers. That might be a good reason to submit a PR to @real_OrcaSlicer adding integrity checks, but someone would have to maintain it... What is unfortunate is that all these vendors forked OrcaSlicer, yet apparently none of them contributed anything back. At the same time, they all modified the cloud opt-out / libbambu_networking behavior. Creality completely removed Stealth Mode from the UI. Elegoo commented out the control toggles. FlashForge left the option in the UI, but commented out and disabled the backend!!!, so the setting does nothing. Anycubic added its own networking stack, and the setting does not apply there. Another interesting detail is that the official Anycubic package does not fully match the GitHub source code. It contains 13 additional binaries, and they also removed the Orca-branded models. 🙂 CrealityPrint has very aggressive telemetry. It sends more than 70 different events to a Chinese SaaS platform, Sensors Analytics / 神策, (IMHO) without clear consent. They claim the data is anonymous, but it includes permanent identifiers such as device_id and user_id, along with information about printed models, other printers, and much more. On top of that, the privacy dialog seems to almost never appear. As for libbambu_networking (used by all vendors), the slicers expose the user's public IP address, the slicer itself, and its usage frequency to Bambu. Once a user logs into MakerWorld (I am not sure all users realize this is Bambu) it can link that to their identity, full printer information, what they print, and their slicer settings (amazing marketing source). Bambu can also silently push arbitrary code to your computer via the libbambu_networking update and execute it when the slicer launches.

Fuck it, I’m going to say the quiet part out loud… Being an influencer isn’t about you. Much like a politician you serve the people, provide the audience with insight into brands and products and where people should spend their money. The word has been tainted and there are only a small group that actually understand this. If your main objective is money over grounded, unbiased information surrounding products you’re presenting and reviewing, kindly fuck off and make room for those that will do the right thing with a platform.

Prusa ColorMix is here: our open-source color mixing model for PrusaSlicer and EasyPrint! 🎨 Full-spectrum printing has been growing fast in the community, so we developed our own model. It predicts the final color you’ll see when different filament colors are printed in thin alternating layers. 1/2

Maul Bear and OBear-Wan Kenobi Are now available for my club members over on @printablescom printables.com/model/1732892… printables.com/model/1732875…

Every Saturday morning I have breakfast with a bunch of old farmers. Discussion today was population decline and replacement rate in the US. They've come up with a very simple yet elegant solution to increase birth rates. Bring back bench seats in pickup trucks.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine just turned weather into a weapon. A weather balloon drifts 26 miles into Russian airspace, reaches 5 miles altitude, then releases an American Hornet kamikaze drone with 95% of its battery still intact and a strike range extended to roughly 75 miles. No radar signature, no engine noise, just the wind quietly doing all the work. The part that stings most for Russia: they can't copy it. The prevailing winds in the region blow toward Russia, not away from it. Ukraine's geographic position turns a basic meteorological fact into a permanent tactical advantage. Physics picked a side. Source: @NotWhatYouThink

Bambu Lab Now Under Formal Investigation for AGPLv3 Violations 3dprintingindustry.com/news/… via @3dprintindustry

This is so awesome! 👏 About freaking time @BambulabGlobal got held accountable! Tell all your dev friends to get onboard with this. 🙏 youtu.be/7hqVwizTico?si=OJFt… #3dprinting

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LIVE AT Noon Eastern (2 HOURS) with special guest @David_Tobin to discuss the laws proposed around #3dprinting, how he plans to fight them, and what we can do to help! David is GUTTING these laws! Find out how LIVE at noon! youtube.com/live/uSDlp27610M