PSA: if you are excited about 3d printing and thinking of diving in, go for the Bambulab X1C.
12 years ago I purchased my first 3d printer, the Makerbot Replicator 1 dual extruder. Aligning the 2 nozzles was near impossible. I upgraded the extruder with whosawhatits influential upgrade. I switched to using Sailfish open source firmware. I printed a rig to tram the print bed using a micrometer. I laser cut an enclosure to improve printing ABS. In spite of all these things the printer was unreliable and constantly a challenge. I had hundreds of ideas but spent most of the time trying to get a decent print. Eventually gave up on 3d printing. This past Dec, a decade later, I dove back in with the Bambu X1C. So much better, so much easier. I’m exploding with ideas, I’m printing things I conceived 12 years ago. It’s not perfect, but if you want to make things vs making a printer work, go for the x1c. #3dprinting #makerbot #bambulab #x1c