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Boulder startup Scrap Labs is building the Scrap 1, a desktop laser powder bed fusion printer made mostly from FDM-printed parts, with a June 2027 production target. Its homepage lists $9,600 Founder kits, while 3Dnatives reports $14,200 for a DIY kit and $17,990 assembled.
Read the story →A community project cross-compiles busybox with the Zig toolchain to add missing Linux tools like less and more to a Z-Mod-modified Flashforge AD5X, working around a Zig floating-point bug with manual ELF patching.
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.
Bondtech's INDX Development Kit, on sale since Friday, brings its wireless-induction tool-changing head to Klipper, Kalico, and RepRapFirmware machines instead of just Prusa's CORE One.
The slicer landscape in 2026 has fragmented along clear lines: ecosystem loyalty, calibration depth, and hardware compatibility each favor a different tool, and the right answer depends almost entirely on what you are printing on.
Multi-color printing without a filament changer is entirely achievable using M600 and pause-at-layer commands. The slicer implementations differ in important ways, and getting the G-code sequencing wrong produces failed swaps, ooze blobs, or color bleed that contaminates the swap layer.
The M5C drops the camera, AI detection, and touchscreen of the M5 to hit a lower price point. What remains is a capable speed-oriented FDM printer with a learning-curve slicer.
The Ender 3 V3 replaces the classic bed-slinger architecture with CoreXY, adds input shaping, and targets 600 mm/s — all while maintaining the price point that made Ender 3 synonymous with budget FDM.
All three major slicers can get plastic on a print bed. Where they diverge is in workflow philosophy, calibration tooling, and how tightly they're coupled to their hardware ecosystems.
The Voron Trident is a capable CoreXY printer you build yourself, but the process demands more than following a manual. This guide covers what actually trips people up before and during the build.
Two years after its launch, the X1 Carbon remains Bambu Lab's flagship enclosed CoreXY. We assess where it still leads, where newer competitors have caught up, and who it's actually for in mid-2026.
Bambu Lab disrupted 3D printing with aggressive hardware pricing, but the real business model is in filament consumables, AMS accessories, and a cloud ecosystem strategy. Here is how the economics work and what it means for buyers.
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