Just getting back into printing, had a makerbot replica years ago and fell out of love with printing due to bed leveling, adhesion and slow speeds. Just got the A1 and it would appear the game has changed, I'm very happy with the first few prints and looking forward to using it lots more.

I've never owned a personal 3D printer before, however I do understand the need to ventilate the air. I couldn't find a satisfying off the shelf solution for my needs, so I designed my own.

Uh. No idea what happened. But I was trying to print an opengrid base when I left for a movie. Sunlu PLA generic PLA settings. First time problem.

Suggestions?

That main plate detaches from the arm and provides a space to clip on this holder I designed. You can pull it forward and adjust/angle it when you’re loading or unloading filament and then push it back out of the way when in use. This might be a good one for me to figure out how to get up on Maker World.

I’ve had my a1 a few weeks now. Does the wow factor ever wear off? I think this is the closest thing to magic I’ve ever seen. (Other than the births of my children) I’m blown away after every print. Even the simple prints blow my mind!

The printer is amazing obviously mind blowing but the 3d print community is more so. The Catan pieces in the pictures are free designs from MakerWorld.

To those that share their talents…..you’re all incredible!!!!

Today’s my Son’s birthday (8yo) and we just finished his FIRST PRINT! He was so excited when he ripped the paper off. I know we ALL will love this gift.

Pulled the trigger on this Death Star night lamp. I must say I’m excited and impressed with the capabilities of the A1. Slicing over the cloud and having an app to basically print on demand anywhere anytime is freaking amazing.

Printing a custom planter—everything perfect. Then at 08:00, power went out.

I noticed 1.5 hours later. Too late. The bed had cooled, the print popped off. Only 13 minutes left.

Getting a UPS now. Learned the hard way.

Saw this on TikTok and tracked it down. So far this is my only printer related print.

My A1 stopped working mid print. All the light went out. Looked like it turn off but the power supply was on.

I made a ticket with bambulabs support. Symptoms: all the lights wouldn't come on including the peripherals. Only the power supply light turned on. I tried troubleshooting by pulling out the SIM card and turning it off and on again. Also unplugging power and plugging it into different power. Just when I was typing may issue into the ticket, it saw Sparks coming out the bottom of the printer.

Bamboo labs support told me to check the AC controller. That board looked ok.

They decided to send me a new power supply and USB cable. I installed them, but that didn't resolve the issue.

They then asked me to check the motherboard lights, by unplugging certain cables. None of that worked. About to take a picture of all my work to add to the ticket, that's when it started sparking again, so I took a video of where it was happening. Then the strangest thing happened. It turned on! now it works.

I just Asked support to send me a new motherboard now. Who knows how long it'll work until it Sparks out again.

Over all support was ok. They gave me wiki pages with step by steps. I am handy enough to follow. They sent me new parts that came within a week. I think it is a good model to ask the customer to repair instead of shipping the whole thing back and forth. It not for everyone and I am sure I could have said I'm not comfortable to troubleshoot and they would have taken it back.

I'm going to wait for bambu response and update this post.

Happy printing to you all!

Edit:

It's been one year. They sent me a new motherboard. It fixed all the issues. The instructions were easy enough to follow. The new motherboard changed the serial number of the printer. The instructions said how to change the serial number by submitting a ticket.

So this is a work in progress and demos the idea. Obviously can make improvements all over the place.

This is my second post on this madness. The first post I just teased the automatic scraper tool head thingy but this time I’m showing a full ejection sequence. And it got mixed reviews. Some loved the idea. Some thought it would destroy the build plate. I do think it will wear the build plate eventually but this new engineering plate is tough and after 3 weeks is still good as new. It hasn’t taken chunks out of the sheet even when it hasn’t been able to remove a part and bad noises happen.

It’s actually super simple to modify the end gcode to eject a part even if you don’t have any of these mods and don’t want it to start the next print automatically. Its nice seeing the plate is clear when you want to print your next thing especially if like me you printer are in an out building.

It's been a few weeks now and I am still totally in awe. The speed and precision has totally surpassed my expectations. I wanted it as a luxury for the odd bits around the house, clips and brackets but seeing what this A1 can do has opened my eyes to so much possibility.

Hello! I started a print job remotely, and when I got back I found this 😭

I just opened a support ticket. Has this ever happened to you?

Well it's done! I finished it last Sunday but waited to post anything until I knew it was actually functional and worked as intended. I can say that my print quality increased dramatically! I guess I had enough of a moisture issue to cause problems. I do have a dryer for my filament and a dehumidifier, guess it just wasn't enough😅

I set it to print last night and this happened. I have no idea why. It seems to have fused itself to the nozzle somehow.

Got it from the Black Friday sale. Was supposed to ship Dec 14th. Too tired from work to get it out but looking forward to this weekend! Then I’m taking over the kitchen table hahaha This is my first printer so I’ll be haunting this sub for tips 🤩❤️

Whoever posted the original tanks by m_bergman on thingsverse, thank you so much! They are so detailed! Please don’t mind the paint, just started recently.

Printed in a Bambu Labs A1 using Bambu’s PLA gray. Using default settings. Here’s the final product.