‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

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He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Bambu Lab makes the best, most accessible 3D printers yet, but that reputation is suddenly under siege. It all started when Paweł Jarczak received a private message from the company on Reddit asking him to delete his code.

Now the 3D printing community is lining up behind Jarczak to fund a war against Bambu — and the future of 3D printers could be at stake. Jarczak is a developer who shared a way to let people remote control their Bambu printers without using Bambu software. But Bambu wanted to lock down its system, despite relying on open-source code.

This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.