What the heck am I gonna say about the X one carbon? That hasn't already been said it's been a year since it's come out
and the machine's already got glowing praise. If you're looking for me to add my opinion to the swathe of other reviewers out there
then I'll save you some time right now. It's awesome. And for the audience I've gained then I think that for the majority of you
this will tick every single box you want ticked. But what is it that bamboo are doing here
That few of the brands are and none of the big 3d printer brands even understand
Well, let me tell you, hi, I'm Ross and this is Fo Hammer videos
So no joke. I was literally on the verge of buying the X One Carbon and I was looking at the bundle the morning of
the day, they contacted me and offered me this printer in exchange for a review and I have more videos on this coming soon
but I'll, I'll come back to that later. But again, a review would be more of what you've seen
There are so many brands out there now trying to clone this thing and they all do the same thing
heated chamber, faster speed. In fact, bamboo all but launched the fast printer trend that everyone is now trying to copy but that isn't bamboo's
secret. It's everything else. You see, there are different people out there using printers for years
It's been a very niche hobby. So much trial and error has gone in by the community and manufacturers just to get these devices from
workable concepts to the more plug and play machines you see now nowadays
But even those easier printers need some tinkering to get the best out of them or in many cases
even just get decent results. Then you need to worry about doing this for every single type and brand and color and age of filament
that you use. And whilst I like FDM printing, it's not my forte
I'm a resin printer. I like to make models. I hate layer lines on anything which is why resin printers are more my thing
I do FDM printer reviews but honestly outside of using them for the reviews
they're rarely actually touched by the few fun projects I like to do whilst one's still sat on my desk
But with the X one carbon, I haven't stopped printing since I got it
As I wrote this review, it was still printing as I'm now recording it
I've paused the printing just so you can't hear it, but it will be back on as soon as I'm done here
So here's the thing. The elephant in the room, if you will FDM printing is an absolute pain in the arse
I came into it after resin printing, assuming it would be easier after all
it had been around much longer. But resin printing's easy. It's messy
but it's easy when it comes to settings, you only really have leveling exposure time and lift speed to worry about
And calibration is no more than running a few prints of the same thing upping and lowering exposure times to get the best results based
on whatever tiny layer height you want. But FDM printing, oh, like I think
I kind of get it now a good year and a half on. But all the guides out there are so overcomplicated and I still
don't know a solid process to correctly dial in most settings. There's a lot of what to do
but a limited amount of what order you should do it in or why
I guess that's really a good idea for future video content for me
But anyway, I'm of two minds with what I want from FDM prints and those minds are conflicting on one hand
I just want to print things, but I also want to be printing the best possible models I can print from these printers
But a lot of the time working prints would be enough and to do that
I've kind of nailed down a rough process level. The printer, get the temperature dialed in so that it lays down layers well enough
too hot and parts won't bridge well, too cold and stuff won't stick
But within there, you also have a range of the walls where models could be glossy or grainy
depending on how hot the temperature likes to be and layer lines could be more or less prominent
Then you have extrusion to worry about too much material through the nozzle and you get a bloated print and it starts to get stringy
or you get little blobs or a brittle print. And even then you need to make sure when you're attracting material
it does it consistently and fast enough or you get blobs everywhere or strings between parts
Now, if you're someone who wants to print stuff, does any of that sound like fun to you
Does it sound fun knowing that when you change a parameter to counter one of these issues
it could easily impact another. And again, now consider that every filament could do with being dialed in the same way
even now much more than a year on from when I first got into FDM printing
I'm constantly second guessing that everything's right. Should this temperature be up or that parameter be faster and there's hundreds of settings
So now I, well, like I suppose many of you just go with default parameters and hope for the best tweaking only when I need
to. And a successful print means more to you than getting the best possible quality print you can get
And all of this is only the first part of the headache too
What if something goes wrong with the printer? I mean, what do you do
Then if you're lucky, you'll search for the correct terms and you may not even know what they are the first time and get them
right in the first try. If you're super lucky someone else has the same issue on the same printer and even posted the solution
But more often than not, you'll have searched for the wrong term or found that issue on a different printer or the proposed solution makes
no sense. Or the solution giver is just wrong. Further cementing misinformation amongst the community
it happens all the time and I'm sorry for that whole opening rant
but I needed to make sure you were all on the same page before going into what the bamboo labs
printer does differently and why none of the other big brands even have a clue
And it's because innovation in 3D printing is about user experience and it's not even the fact that the bamboo
labs just works. It's about how it just works and it starts with the unboxing
Now, this is more than the few minutes they advertise on this unit, but that's only because there's so much in here
There's no real building to do. It's all just set up and the instruction guys walk you through all of this so easily
And there's numerous videos you can follow too all done by bamboo. It's hard
it's genuinely hard to get any of this wrong. So the package they sent me is the combo which includes the AM U
You can use this for their rather unique multicolor print feature or as a recently added feature
you can stock up on reels of the same filament in case one runs out your print will just continue on the next reel of
the same type and color. And they even have a hub add on
You can connect up to 4 a.m. US for a total of 16 different color prints if you so wanted to
And all of this is so easy to set up too. You just do it on the U I of the printer where you tell
it what brand type and color of filament is in each of the slots and bamboo sent me a ton of their different filaments
And the bonus to these is there's also an RF ID chip in the label that the AM U reads and it automatically knows what
filament it is bamboo. Then obviously already have the best default settings for those materials because the printer is in a controlled environment now
unlike something a bit simpler and more beginner friendly, like the anchor make M five
the slicer application can look a little bit overwhelming for new people to FDM printing
but honestly when you get it out of the box, you just log into the same bamboo account that you created when you set up
your printer using your phone and it's automatically detected on your network
All you need to do is load a model in. If you have the AM U, click the sync button to get the details of
the filament in the AM U. And from here, the slicer can auto orient support and slice the file
But if you're new here, you can come across issues. And if there are issues
you'll get a clear notification that very, very clearly tells you what the problem is and it tells you in plain and clear English how
to solve it. And when it comes to printing, you genuinely don't need to care or worry about any of the calibration stuff that I
talked about earlier. The X one carbon uses a lidar to determine the leveling perfectly with every single print
But then it will also calibrate the extrusion settings too with a test print at the front of the plate and it scans how much
material is extruded to make sure it's correct. And again, this is every single time
all of this leads to not just working and not just good but really high quality prints out of the box
And again, if you have the AM U, this also works to dehumidify your filament before it's used too
And that's really helpful. I've actually had this unit printing filaments that are years old and have been sat in the garage
but they printed without a single floor. And has it been a perfect experience in the last couple of weeks
Well, no, and that's a good thing. I've had some issues but the printer itself taught me how to fix them
And the first issue was a notification that told me that the resonance frequency was too low and it suggested a belt was loose
You see the printer will make this weird vibration noise before its first print to detect vibrations in order to reduce ghosting on the edge
of your layers. When the printer told me the belt was loose after some pre print checks
I could click read more and get a QR code which led me to a web page with a full description of the issue and
a video solution on how to resolve it. This happened again later after over 200 hours of printing the cheap eleu filament that I use
got stuck in the print head like an idiot. I tried to cold pull it which then snapped the filament inside the extruder
And I tried a bunch of tricks I already knew from other 3d printers like trying to force it through a hot nozzle that didn't
work. I even tried removing the nozzle and using a heated Allen key just to get it unclogged from here too
But it was only after trying those macgyver tricks I'd learned through the years that I remembered to follow the printer's guide
And once again, following the error taught me how to remove and disassemble the extruder mechanism and remove the piece of filament that I trapped
inside it because I didn't follow the proper guide in the first place
And when it comes to the advanced features, like coloring prints, you can do this so easily with either the manual or the paint bucket
tools within the slicer. All you need to do is paint colors on the face of a model and the slicer just takes care of
the rest. And this can be done easily by just adjusting the paint tools sensitivity to the angles on a print surface
And I've said since my Anchor make M five review that sure there's tons of printers out there with high specifications
But the speed that other brands have been chasing proves why they just don't get it
Most just don't even understand what the bamboo does, which makes it stand out so much so they can and will continue making faster
printers, hotter printers, bigger fans or larger printers. But making printers that are more intuitive is far more important than any of that
bamboo lab gets it. And that's why they went from somebody that nobody's heard of to a company that is consistently thought of as the
top in the FDM market for reliable, high quality 3D printers that anybody can use
This gives you fast and accurate prints out of the box and you really don't need to know anything about FDM printing to get started
with this. Yeah, it's pricey. But considering that bamboo are consistently supporting and upgrading it
they have proven that they are a company worth investing in. And thanks to how this makes advanced levels of 3D printing more accessible to
the masses. It's easy to see why they have a business model and a range of products worth supporting
And unless the other brands wake up and realize this before long
they'll fade into obscurity and continue to release knockoff versions of this feature set that are consistently looked at as inferior
And eventually they'll be thought of as only useful to those people who are happy to Tinker
I'll be doing more videos on the X one carbon soon including some large print guides and showing you how you can print miniatures and
war gamer terrain using the 0.2 millimeter nozzle. So make sure you're subscribed
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