I have an H2C and it is my first, and likely last, Bambu printer.

I was ok with the idea of a “just works” printer, but coming from building Vorons… Bambu has issues that I cannot fix and Bambu does not care or is just super slow to address. First layer is bad for ABS/ASA and every sliced file needs a z-offset to work. Bambu Slicer is not great. My filaments are constantly getting deleted or won’t sync. The list of open GitHub issues is massive.

This nonsense now with a Cease & Desist does not sit well with me. I regret my purchase.

That’s good to know. I have only seen the SV 08 mentioned, which I wasn’t sure of the value vs some of the 2.4 kits.

I see there is a Soval Zero as well, that looks more compelling.

None of the manufacturers have been great with open source, other than Prusa, to my knowledge.

You can get a heck of a lot more capable printer than an ender3 at that price point, even with multi material. If you want to keep waste down though you would need at least a dual head machine, or a toolhead switching machine which I think goes above your price range.

If you don’t need a big printer, and can pass on multilateral (unless you want to get a small INDX system for it later… for a bunch more money), at that price I’d spring for a Voron v0. Doesn’t get more open source than that.

No. Wisconsin Abundant Life Christian School, in 2024. Not sure about before that.

I missed all of this, but mostly caught up now. Hopefully Feamework starts making some better decisions on who they align with.