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Printers
Bambu Lab and Insta360 Launch $11,160 Luna Ultra Design Challenge on MakerWorld
Insta360 becomes MakerWorld's first official camera brand, releasing free CAD files for its Luna Ultra 8K gimbal camera as Bambu Lab runs a $11,160 mount-design and content contest through August 9.
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Business
Bambu Lab Runs 48-Hour Fundraiser for Venezuela Earthquake Relief, Matching Filament Sales to UN Crisis Relief
Bambu Lab is donating the full MSRP of Venezuela-flag-colored PLA Basic Refill sold July 13-15 to UN Crisis Relief, building on a prior $50,000 LATAM pledge and grassroots maker splint printing after the country's twin earthquakes.
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Software
Manual Supports in Bambu Studio: The Complete How-To
Bambu Studio's auto supports are good — but painting enforcers and blockers, manual-only support modes, and per-object overrides are better. A complete walkthrough of the painting tools, blocker objects, tree vs normal styles, and the Z-distance and interface settings that decide whether supports pop off cleanly.
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Guides
Flow Calibration Explained: Getting Your Extrusion Multiplier Right
Why flow rate governs dimensional accuracy, layer bonding, and surface finish, how Orca Slicer's wizard differs from Bambu Studio's own calibration flow, and how to organize per-filament flow profiles across a library and multiple printers.
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Software
Klipper vs Marlin: 3D Printer Firmware Explained
Marlin runs entirely on your printer's own board; Klipper splits the job with a host computer. Both now do input shaping and pressure control. Here is how the two actually compare — and who ships which one stock.
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Business
What a 3D Print Actually Costs: Calculating Cost Per Part
Filament price is only part of the bill. A step-by-step breakdown of material, electricity, machine depreciation, failure rate, and labor costs, with a full worked example calculating the true cost of one printed part.
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Guides
A Single 20-Second Laser Flash Now Prints an Entire 3D Microstructure at Once
Utah engineers built a holographic 3D printer that solidifies a whole microstructure from one 20-second laser exposure instead of hours of layer-by-layer scanning — for now, only at micrometer scale.
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Business
Snapmaker Raises Roughly €129M Series C — The Largest Consumer 3D-Printing Round in Two Years
Shenzhen's Snapmaker closed a ¥1 billion (~€129M/$140M) Series C on July 8, 2026, led by Cathay Capital, in what the company calls the largest consumer 3D-printing funding round in two years.
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Industry
How the 3D Printing Community Raced to Help Venezuela After Its Deadliest Earthquake Since 1900
After a 7.5-magnitude quake devastated Yaracuy State, 97 maker teams in 11 countries printed thousands of open-sourced splints within two weeks, backed by a $50,000 Bambu Lab pledge and a filament fundraiser for UN Crisis Relief.
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Industry
AMAA 2026: How 3D Printing Is Quietly Rebuilding Military and Conservation Drones
Ahead of the AMAA 2026 defense-and-aerospace conference, a new industry preview details how HP MJF printing is now shaping everything from $400 Army FPV drones to a 0.8mm-walled anti-poaching UAV in Zambia.
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Printers
Formnext Asia Shenzhen Adds a Maker Day and Global Dealer-Matching Program for 2026
Formnext Asia Shenzhen's August 2026 edition gets a hands-on Maker Day with factory tours and an open-mic forum, plus a formal matchmaking program pairing overseas distributors with Chinese 3D printing giants like Bambu Lab, Creality, and Elegoo.
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Software
OrcaSlicer 2.4.2 Lands With Preset-Recovery Fixes and More Reliable Cloud Sync
OrcaSlicer 2.4.2, released July 7, 2026, repairs presets broken by renamed printer/filament profiles, stops cloud sync from silently re-enabling disabled filament overrides, and squashes several crash bugs.
