the New Kids on the Block have bestowed upon us a brand new printer thanks to
Bamboo live for sponsoring today's video and sending us their brand new p1p this
one is a new version a stripped down version of their X1 and X1 Carbon at
over half the price of their X1 Carbon Let's see if they cut the corners in the
right places compared to the X1 Carbon and the X1
this has no side panels it really is a
skeletonized version it looks exactly like the X1 Carbon sort of on the inside
almost all of this is exactly the same it uses the exact same motion platform
as their you know top of the line models so that's kind of where most of the cost
is and then they basically just got rid of all the extra stuff that you don't
really need so we have a entire spool of
mammal Labs basic filament this will be the screen so I don't believe this is a
touch screen it's kind of just a little guy like this with a chromatic kind of
boring thing we'll get that installed in a minute the kind of design methodology of this one is uh more like oh you can
customize it make it your own so if you want to upgrade it down the line or use
the printer itself to print new panels those are all available as generic items
online you can buy these accessories for the p1p if you so want we have a nozzle
cleaning needle very small we have an allen key for some of the bolts that
we're going to be removing in a minute I believe this is going to be the main
Allen key that we'll be using for all of the shipping bolts at the bottom there
if I guess some extra little screws for the hot end assembly we also have a
couple replacement parts for the nozzle
wiping system these are kind of interesting because this printer has an
entire system of pre-checks before you start printing so it makes it incredibly
easy to just kind of push go and everything's all right including a
filament cutter system and everything like that and then we have the hot end itself they give you an entire new hot
end as a spare which is really quite nice you may have noticed that the hot
end is not like anything else on the market and it is completely proprietary
that kind of raises my heckles a little bit it's nice that they've included
another one but you can buy replacement hot ends from bamboo for the absolutely
horrendous price of 15 so if it's going
to be proprietary I'm glad it's kind of that price it's really quite nice to see
bamboo is saying that it will take 15 minutes from unboxing to First print and
pretty much the whole printer comes fully assembled we do have to remove a
couple screws that hold the bed down for shipping and then we also have to put on
the screen take the screen and you plug the cable into the screen
so that tucks in there and then it just snaps over and the screen's on I've got
the all metal filament spool holder attached we can see our belts directly
it apparently has an automatic belt tensioning system I have no idea how
that works I've never seen it in action I assume it just does it automatically
in the background and something that we don't often see on 3D printers is it's
got a butt it has a little poop shoot when we get it started up I'll show you
but it it primes and poops it out the back
there we go so we can actually look inside the hot end assembly it's just
held on with magnets and yeah we just got to get this PTFE tube in here and
press that in make sure it's locked in nice and tight there we go and that's
pretty much that okay first power on this is always exciting
oh that's what our first bit of hurdle
and a bit of gripe with bamboo we need an app now I understand that that's
sometimes kind of okay um I think in this instance it is I like
that they've included a skip this portion so you really just have to use
it once we have an account and what we're gonna do is we'll just scan the
barcode and then have it bound to our account we're going to do our first time setup now we can see in the app here
it's ask me again if I remove those bolts if you do forget it doesn't
destroy itself it just makes horrible horrible noises so don't forget that and
it's asking me to start the procedure I'm gonna hit start oh yeah another
thing I really like about these is the Zed Gantry moves really quickly this is
its homing procedure and then it'll go to the middle
the battle vibrate which is kind of interesting it has a vibration dampening
compensation system there's a sensor in the hot end or somewhere in the printer
that measures the vibration coming from a machine itself and can adjust the
motion paths to kind of cancel that out or at least make it a little bit more
minimal the bed kind of vibrates just to make sure that there's nothing in the
way if I like put my hand on it it'll basically throw an error and be like oh
the beds hit something and I'm not supposed to have hit something yet there's no homing switch on this the
Homing is done completely through the nozzle and hot end assembly which is
amazing it means that you're always going to have perfectly level prints
that don't need any fine tuning to get that first layer right because it knows
that the nozzle is at zero rather than it being an offset from your end stop
compared to the bed compared to the nozzle now we've started our vibration
compensation so it's going to sweep through different levels of intensities
of of vibratoryness and measure them
compared to the resonance that it's feeling in the
case itself you can hear the tone Rising
there we go
if the printer is ever moving at those frequencies while it's printing your
whole table is going to be shaking by having the vibration compensation system you can make the printer move in not
those spaces or if it has to move through that frequency range it'll slow
down or speed up to avoid that little hole of extreme violence so it's gone
back to its parked position hey this is it's got a smiley face on
our home screen here we have you know if bed temperature hot end temperature kind
of print time remaining the status of the printer which is fine it's got all
the stuff you need the second page here is kind of your transport controls we
can home the printer we can move the z-axis up and down and we also have our
our fan speeds and all that sort of thing as well we also have SD card
support so you can print from a Micro SD card but what I've been doing and what I
like doing is using the bamboo studio app which we'll have a look in a minute
to send the printer the files through their cloud service which is problematic
but you can set it to Lan mode one of the things that makes the bamboo
printers so impressive is the motion system and the p1p gets the same one as
the X1 and the X1 Carbon the entire hot
end assembly here is a core XY system and uses two Motors at the back with a
pair of belts to move it in very precise a little dance of adjustment the x-axis
Gantry is made of two carbon fiber rods with the belts sandwich between
and that allows the weight to be really really low because the printer has to
move this entire assembly back and forward at like ridiculous speeds this
is our hot end assembly right here and this is our direct drive extruder we
also have an interesting feature of this filament cutter which it'll
automatically slice off the filament if you're doing changes or anything like
that to kind of keep the the whole path really pure and make sure that there's
not like extra colors and things in there we also have a filament run out
sensor which is super nice you can take this whole thing apart yourself it
doesn't have any special screws it's just this Allen key and this Allen key
all the bolts in the entire machine are pretty much just these two which is
which is great here's the spool of pla
basic a little tag right there and bamboos does something interesting they
put an RFID tag on the spool itself when
you're using the AMS it'll automatically read that tag and feed the printer the
type of plastic it is its settings its color and how much you have remaining in
the spool unfortunately this is a bamboo
proprietary type of tag and I'm really hoping that they'll eventually open that
up for anybody else to use but it's only available on their filament right now
now let's just get this plugged in and we'll start a print and I can show you
how fast this thing goes bam studio is actually a fork of prusa slicer all open
source you can find the entire unbuilt code on Bamboo's GitHub which is super
nice to see for how proprietary bamboo has kind of made this ecosystem there's
actually a lot of stuff that's really open about it all the slicer and pretty
much all the settings for the printer themselves you can modify I would find
that this printer would drive me insane if I couldn't modify some of the the
checks thankfully bamboo has included a bunch of different startup scripts which
just exist as start and end G-Code so
you can modify them to however you want I have a couple custom ones in here that
I found online people have already started writing fast startup scripts
which get that seven minutes down to about 30 seconds without any loss like
you maybe need to do a full startup script once in a while but it saves all the
settings in firmware yeah it seems to run a modified version of marlin as well
so you can send this printer just to G-Code you don't have to use bamboo
Studio you just load your G-Code onto the micro SD card and it'll print right
from that just fine so I'm going to use the pre-done preset here for the startup
which is going to be the p1p with the
default 0.4 millimeter nozzle if we look
at the advanced section here we can see all the bed details we can see the
printable height 250 millimeters on this we have the G-Code flavor which is
Marlin Legacy that's how we know it's Marlin and we can also see the filament
load time and unload time so that's an adjustment setting to if you wanted to
pull back the filament how much to pull it back for that sort of thing we have
access to all of our machine g-codes here just like you know from Boucher slicer and then we have our motion
ability which is crazy the maximum speed
of the X and Y Carriage is 500 millimeters a second now you're not
going to be printing at that speed but that's going to be your travel speed for
you Americans that's going to be 20 inches per second
you know it's it's quick it's scary you'll see that when you kind of get
into printers this capable you kind of
stop worrying about the movement capabilities of the printers and you
start having to worry about how much plastic you can extrude that's just to
have a goddamn print how about that so we'll just do the 0.16 optimal and we
hit slice it'll give us our time this will take 19
minutes with the with the full print we'll go print plate it says 19 minutes
it's going to use five and a half grams of filament we select our printer here
and I would like to do bed leveling and
uh you cannot send the print job to a printer whose firmware it is required to
be updated okay we'll be back in a minute I found another box a box
got a firmware update it didn't take very long which is kind of nice what's
this so this printer is in pre-release right now so when you buy the
pre-release one you get some extra goodies so you get that light you get the uh you get the camera
and you get the layer fan which is which is sick look at this thing he's a beefy
boy let's install this I think it's pretty simple it just kind of Clips on
it's just got a ribbon cable here with some sticky tape if you've got a Micro SD card in there you can record video in
720 or 1080 and it'll also do time lapses and there's special time lapse
G-Code that it'll inject so when it does a layer it'll move the hot end out of
the way take a picture so your print kind of comes out of nowhere and there's
no hot end jumping around on top which is kind of cool and
there while we're waiting for the bed to heat up and everything to get warm let's
talk about the build plate so it's got these magnetic sheets and it looks like
they've included my favorite plate which is the textured Pei one you don't have
to use any like glue or stuff on it and it's kind of good for other things the
problem is it leaves a bit of a rough surface which you might not want
um they're magnetic they are double-sided which is really nice and
they offer two or three different styles of of bed the magnets are really strong
which can be a bit of a problem as the detents at the rear are like maybe a
little bit too small but that's a problem with all the printers the other
thing that this printer is missing is the lid art so bamboo have included a
feature that I've never really seen on any other printer which is a small laser
radar gun machine that sticks out the
side of the hot end assembly and what it'll do is it'll draw a little pattern
on the front edge of the bed basically it's an extrusion compensation system
because when the printhead is moving really fast the plastic is leaving the
nozzle but it's maybe not leaving it evenly and so you kind of get thinner
lines and then as you slow down to make a corner the lines get thicker as the
plastic that it's pushed through is kind of maybe over compensating and so what
this does is it kind of Moves In A jerky motion and the line kind of waves around
like this and then it'll measure that and then calibrate itself immediately
for that so we're going to do our initial home he's going to find the base level of where the bed is compared to
the nozzle it's going to wipe the tip again
and now it's gonna just really make sure the tip is white and it's adjusting the
temperature up and down consistently so now we're doing our like final bed level
um It's gotta just got a wiggle Sprinter likes to wiggle a lot the textured Pei
bed has a slight adjustment for the base
layer because there's maybe a slight undulation in the surface it touches so
the start script will automatically compensate for that and depending on
what bed you're using you don't have to worry about that compensation it'll all
be handled manually in the start G-Code which is really nice we're 25 through
this print and it's still just setting up we can fix this with the custom
scripts which skips all of this it makes everything fast it'll wipe the tip once
and it goes and then you're done like come on it's it's half the print time is
just the setup I mean I like that you know you're new at printing this bed
leveling system that we're doing right here is one of the hardest things to learn
it does a quick vibration calibration system as it cuts off my finger now we
get into the fun stuff so this is now our full speed
I shouldn't but I'm just going to disable the part fan so I can still talk
um one of the fun things that bamboo has included is your speed control I wish
they had included a more fine granular speed control but this is standard mode
I'm going to switch it to sport mode now
there we go now we're in sport mode you can see
those movements are like it's kind of crazy
and then bamboo has also included because of course they did ludicrous
mode which we are now in now
the reason it's sounding crunchy like that is just because this model has a
lot of uh tessellations on it it's not very
smooth so it can't do the arc calculations that it needs to the best
thing about having a printer that can print this quickly is you can iterate
through prototypes way faster with my bamboos I can do maybe four to six
prototypes in the time that it would take a competing printer of the same
kind of price range to print one just having that acceleration and that travel
speed and that movement speed is so much more useful to getting prints done
normally the trade-off is quality or speed and you can have both with with
any of the bamboo printers including this one yeah I really like that they've included the same motion system they're
not quiet printers the um the X1 and the
X1 Carbon are a little quieter because they have the sides on it because they
come with tempered glass tops and fronts even without the fans on the it's
printing really fast and so the whole motion system is going to make a bunch of noise so here's an example of the the
pressure Advance calibration so that's the fast start that didn't take seven
minutes it took maybe one to two minutes that's my medium level one with a proper
bed level and calibration again our first layer is going to be nice and slow
and then it ramps up after that I really like the like custom motion paths that
they have in here when it reaches the end of the line it does a little twirl
to kind of break off the uh the end and and make it a little bit more seamless
so I want to remind you that this is the default standard speed that it's moving
at we can get a breakdown in bamboo studio so this is currently printing at
230 millimeters a second which is quite
a lot actually I think they've done something strange with their filaments
because when we get to this level of motion platform the only thing limiting your
printing speed becomes volumetric flow and this one with the bamboo filament
can push 21 millimeters cubed per second of filament
which is a meaningless number in my brain but is basically the amount of
volume that it can push through per second I would really love to see bamboo
put a bigger hot end or offer an
extended hot end like the volcano to really push that melt Zone higher
instead of having to get multiple printers to like work on prototypes that
could take 14 hours or something like that you can be iterating on a day
instead of overnight say I wanted to check the fitment between the Rings this
is a little Gyro model thing it takes me 20 minutes to iterate instead of what
would probably be about an hour or maybe three hours on a on another printer that
wasn't core XY I mean even at 230 millimeters a second for this print it's
still conservative we can we can push this higher we can and use the sport
mode we can use the ludicrous mode your print quality is going to suffer but
you're still able to get those prints out even faster because the limit of
this printer is 500 millimeters a second you have unlimited movement capabilities
and it's really just limited by the hot end on this machine which is a bit of a
shame but shouldn't be too hard for them to release a super extended version I
mean the bed levels with the tool itself you're going to lose some print height
but that would be amazing I want to go faster speed this has uh Linus proofing
so if I pull out the power cord it should restore itself which is kind of
nice I'm not going to do that because I don't want to be here all day
okay and we're done what it did is it moved to the back and then cuts the
filament and then make sure that it's all kind of ready to go for next time
it's pooped out the back this is its little Purge thing it uses about 150
millimeters of filament which is kind of a lot with the fast start that you can find online or write yourself you can
get that down to about five or ten we have this magnetic bed and the part has
immediately come off this looks quite good there we go we have this little
gyro spinner thing which is kind of cool it's printed completely without support
and everything's nice and separate it's interesting you can actually see the
tessellation on the outside which is from the model itself if your model or
STL is exported with a low resolution you will actually have less triangles on
the outside and so the arc fitting that this machine will do isn't so great it's
interesting this printer will reproduce those artifacts in the model itself
which is really cool yeah this feels great and it only took about I don't
know 10 minutes to print with that seven minutes of start time which is always a
bit disappointing but it's about half the price of the competitor that
everybody likes it feels weird it feels chilly to like a product this much
especially doing a sponsor review and I don't know how I feel about that but I
think if we're trying to keep open and
transparent the list of positives is basically everything and the list of
negatives is stuff I think can be fixed in software I don't have the level of
engineering degrees required to properly describe all the little nuanced features
that it has I'm basically a more advanced hobbyist at this point but I
think this is a real game changer for the whole industry every other printer
manufacturer should be scared of bamboo if you're not copying this product and
you're not making clones of this product and you're a 3D printer company and
you're not bringing out a product like this then you're you're screwed
basically it's incredible good job guys if you want a 3D printer
um only buy this one unless it's too
expensive then buy another one but you'll have more headaches and spend
more time than with the p1p
thanks