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35mm: a lamp. IMAX: a lamp that grows your dinner. Nolan gets it. The good part is always at the bottom of the frame. Phytoring is a 3D printable hanging lamp with a microgreens tray in the base. Print it, plant it, eat it. 200+ backers already have the files and late pledge is still open. makerworld.com/en/crowdfundi… Disclaimer: One photo, two crops. Photo ratios are not accurate.

Keep the source closed. Keep the polish. But work with the community instead of against it. That's the Pebble way - and it's the only path where Bambu Lab and its users both win. Full read by Joshua Wise on @All3DP: all3dp.com/4/bambu-lab-shoul…

Makers are unsatisfied by nature. They'll improve their tools with or without your permission. Bambu Lab doesn't need to open source anything. They just need to: - Let users customize their own printers - Let users modify their slicers without losing cloud access That's it.

Bambu thinks their closed ecosystem is why they succeeded. Joshua disagrees - and so do I. They won because they made a great printer. The locked ecosystem wasn't the secret. The product was.

X1Plus proved this works in 3D printing. Their community added: - LAN-only lockdown for security - Screen lock for shared spaces like libraries - 0.1mm bed tramming for power users - Custom splash screens (wildly popular) Bambu never planned any of it. The community just... did it.

In 2012, a smartwatch launched on Kickstarter called Pebble. Closed source firmware. But it welcomed developers, let users write apps, and gave licenses to redistribute modified firmware. Great product AND hackable. Nobody said you have to pick one.

Here's the trap they both fell into: Apple = locked down, polished, just works Android = wide open, messy, community-built Dr. Tao chose Apple. He wanted 3D printing to work out of the box. Joshua wanted Android. But they were both wrong. There's a third path.

Joshua Wise built X1Plus - custom firmware for the Bambu X1 Carbon. He spent hours on the phone with Bambu's CEO, Dr. Ye Tao, debating the future of 3D printing. The conversation kept circling back to one question: Apple or Android?

Bambu Lab picked the Apple model. Closed ecosystem. Cloud-dependent. Their way or the highway. A maker who literally called Bambu's CEO just wrote the most important piece in 3D printing right now - and it changed how I see the whole debate. 🧵🧵🧵

Bambu shipped Vortek in March 2026. Real machines. Real results. People are printing with it right now. KliTek™ is Q3 2026. Zero prints in the wild. Better specs mean nothing if execution fails. So here's the question - would you wait for KliTek™, or stick with what's already proven?

Side by side: Waste reduction: Vortek 58% - KliTek™ 80% Accuracy: Vortek 50 μm - KliTek™ 25 μm Soft TPU: Vortek ✗ - KliTek™ ✓ Flow rate: Vortek standard - KliTek™ 15 mm³/s Better specs across the board.

On waste - Vortek cuts purge waste by 58%. KliTek™ uses independent channels per material. No shared pathway, no color bleeding. 80% less filament wasted per job. And soft TPU runs at 15 mm³/s - 7x faster than conventional printers.

Problem 2: Accuracy. Vortek holds 50 μm repositioning accuracy after every swap. KliTek™ holds ≤25 μm - with 37 sensors handling real-time calibration on every single change. Half the drift. Every swap.

Problem 1: Soft TPU. Vortek physically swaps hotends between materials. 95A or softer compresses during load/unload. It doesn't work through the tool changer. For flexible-heavy workflows, that's a hard wall.

Bambu's H2C Vortek is the best multi-material system shipping today. 6 interchangeable hotends. Up to 7 materials simultaneously. No purge tower. Induction heating in 8 seconds. But it has two real problems.

Bambu's Vortek can't run soft TPU. 50 μm accuracy after every swap. Creality's KliTek™ was built for flexibles. Hits 25 μm. Here's the full breakdown: 🧵

Creality just announced something wild for Q3 2026. KliTek™ multi-channel nozzle system: - 5-second nozzle switches - 80% less filament waste - 25 μm repositioning accuracy - Soft TPU at 15 mm³/s (7x faster than standard) - 80A + 95A hardness in a single print Multi-material printing is about to look very different.

@Creality3dP just teased something that could change multi-material printing forever. KliTek™ - automatic nozzle-changing. No pausing. No swapping by hand. Just print. More colors. More materials. More possibilities. Reveal: May 29 | 7 PM PST 👀 Are you watching?

Day 247 and already walking outside - the open-source humanoid race just got real 🔥 how much of the structure is 3D printed?