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so any cubic have stepped up their game
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of late and now that both of these
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printers are offering the same thing
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from a functionality standpoint you may
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be wondering which one you should get
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and unfortunately the decision is not as
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simple as skipping to the end of the
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video and I give you an answer because
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there is no right answer what is right
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for me may not be right for you you need
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to know the differences between these
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printers so you can make the best
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decision for yourself but since I've
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already made two separate videos on both
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of these machines I'll be as quick as I
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can here and focus on the differences if
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you want to know any more about these
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machines then please check out the
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individual reviews until then let's get
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on with it hi I'm Ross and this is f
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Hammer videos right so these are both
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similarly sized bed Slingers and they
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both come as Standalone printers or with
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multimaterial offerings the bamboo comes
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with an automatic material system or AMS
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whilst the competitor has the ne cubic
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colar engine or acce I'll cover the
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different of these later but the point
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is both are capable of multicolor
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filament printing let's start outside so
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external style differences are down to
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Personal Taste I like both of them but
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the any cubic has a more industrial look
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but the silver frame with the small
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orange elements complement well the
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Bamboo's light gray chassis is also nice
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with subtle green elements to fit in
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with their General branding style where
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they really differ visually is that the
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any cubic still has a lot more of its
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technical components on show whereas
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bamboo has nicely hidden these away and
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protected them and when it comes to
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connecting up accessories bamboo has
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cables for connection to the AMS tidy
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coming out of the back whereas any
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cubics or fit to just leave the ports on
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the front so you do have your AC cable
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strewn across your worktop the control
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screen of the bamboo is neatly
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integrated and flips away when not
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needed where the any cubic screen is
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attached separately and has a loose
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ribbon cable sticking out the side I'm
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sure we can all agree that bamboo has
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put a little more effort into making a
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tidier setup whether this matters to you
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though is totally your call now when it
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comes to actually setting up these
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machines the A1 comes in two main parts
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and you do need to do a little bit of
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building before attaching a couple of
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accessories this involves flipping it
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over a few times to attach the upper
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Gantry to the base whereas the Cobra 3
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combo comes in a larger box and this is
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mostly pre-assembled for you all you
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need to do is attach the hot end and a
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few accessories neither process is
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necessarily hard in act both are
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straightforward but with less flipping
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to do the any cubic takes the win for
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easier setup the outof Box experience on
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the screen and the whole UI though is
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quite different whilst the bamboo has
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the smaller display it is by far the
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more intuitive option with sensibly laid
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out pictograms and text menus where the
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any cubic machine is a little more Rough
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and Ready I just can't get over the use
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of any alpha numeric keyboard on a
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screen this big since this side of 200 7
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when they invented the iPhone again
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though neither actual setup is hard they
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both walk you through the printer self
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tests connection to each Brand's cloud
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service and your first print but I'll
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still easily hand this one to Bamboo for
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the effort they've put into how much
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tidier and more intuitive this is even
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though I'm less likely to use that UI
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ever again after I get onto the PC app
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but that's for later in the video when
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it comes to print size the Bamboo's
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maximum print volume is a fixed cube of
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20 56x 256x 256 the any cubic has a
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slightly smaller rectangular cuboid of
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250X 250 with a height of 260 mm but
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this is only a 3.2% difference I'm not
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handing this one to Bamboo for the extra
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size cuz well math is doing that for me
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where I want to push it is that because
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I just prefer cubes to cuboids when it
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comes to print volume and the extra
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value here is that this 256 mm cubed is
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directly comparative to the volume of
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Bamboo's P1 and X1 printers also I like
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standards and order it keeps things
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simple in an already confusing hobby
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when it comes to the hot ends both
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printers have made access pretty easy
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with compression fit faes in each unit
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the bamboo has a quick release nozzle
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that you can simply pop out and pop a
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new one in the any cubic is a little bit
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trickier because you also need to detach
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a couple of cables to swap out the
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hotend but you can just swap out the
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nozzle itself rather than the whole
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hotend unit it which can save costs
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quite a bit and at the time of recording
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any cubic has not released whole hotend
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units as an available assortment on
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their store but I expect they're coming
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though due to the additional hardware
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and cabling attached will probably be
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more expensive than what you can get now
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for the A1 both machines come as
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standard with an 0.4 mm nozzle but on
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the A1 you can get 2.6 and8 it did look
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like you could get these on the Cobra 3
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combo 2 for a while but any cubic have
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now updated website and only the4 mm
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nozzle is available where I do prefer
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Bamboo's hot end is with material
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changes there is visibly less filament
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purged with each color change or
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material change on the A1 than on the
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Cobra and one issue I found with the
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Cobra that still doesn't seem to be
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fixed is that even if two consecutive
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prints use the same color filament the
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printer will still Express a ton of
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waste as though it has done a color
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change where the A1 will just continue
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printing the next model knowing the
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previous color is still installed so
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whilst multicolor printing is already
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quite wasteful it's slightly less so
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with this bamboo printer but one shining
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addition is that the A1 has active flow
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rate compensation which measures
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pressure on the nozzle to determine that
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the flow rate is accurate during every
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part of every print meaning there should
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be no signs of under or overe Extrusion
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from this machine from what I've seen
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and read of the Cobra this has no such
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function and my prints actually saw
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several signs of of underere Extrusion
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even when using default profiles for any
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cubic own provided filaments but it is
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still early days for any cubic and these
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profiles can be tweaked by them when or
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if they do is something I want to come
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on to both printers come with
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double-sided textured Pei plates that
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are easy to slide into place thanks to
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the cut in grooves but the bamboo has a
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larger selection of build plate surfaces
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available including smooth plates and a
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variety of quirky textures like carbon
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fiber diamond rainbow effect sheets too
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which are easily applied as stickers to
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the smooth steel plate and because this
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build plate has remained consistent
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throughout Bamboo's product range
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there's a huge selection of thirdparty
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plates available for this brand too
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already another feature of both printers
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whilst optional on the any cubic is the
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addition of a camera with the A1 this
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comes as standard and is discretly built
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into the frame of the Z rail it comes
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with a privacy guard which also doubles
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up as an LED diffuser whilst the camera
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is in use with the cobra three this
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camera is an optional extra and well
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it's actually just a controller PCB with
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a lens attached you actually need to
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print the chassis for it which well
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that's kind of cool and fun but again
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the cable like the one for the AC just
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plugs in at the front leaving another
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cable strewn across your desk the A1
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will automatically capture time lapses
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of all your prints just be careful of
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what's in its visual range whilst it's
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active though and even at night your
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time-lapses are fairly well lit thanks
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to this LED and diffuser well well
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enough for you to see what's happening
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anyway both printers will let you
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remotely view the camera so you can keep
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an eye on Prints but at night time the
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Cobra is let down by the only light
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being attached to the actual hot end
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itself without the whole field of view
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being let up it's actually much harder
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to detect failures and it won't make
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good time-lapses overnight though at the
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time of recording we still don't have
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the ability to create time-lapses on the
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Cobra I have been told this feature is
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coming soon but I was also told that in
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my review of the cobra a few weeks ago
8:00
but speaking of software let's have a
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look at the slicers both the bamboo
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studio and any cubic slicer are built
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off the prer slicer both are fairly
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straightforward to use your primary
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options are displayed right at you and
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more advanced options are available but
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tucked away for advanced users bamboo
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has the lead on this one but mainly
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because they've had a massive head start
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their software has remained consistent
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since its initial release and they
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clearly thought about designed and
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delivered a user oriented workflow the
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any cub slicer is still just a bit of a
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way off it's not terrible and it's
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slowly getting better but slowly though
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it's clear that it's just not getting as
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much love put into it as bamboo Studio
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look at it this way bamboo studio is
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such a good branch of prer that it now
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has its own child which is orca slicer
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possibly the best and certainly the
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current most popular slicer for most
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users in this Niche and I doubt there
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will be a future where someone wants to
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Branch off any cubic like
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that's the difference Orca has become
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the one that I wish these Brands would
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just integrate with and give up making
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their own versions unless they plan to
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actually try and make a better one I
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remarked before in my Cobra review that
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maybe I just haven't spent enough time
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with any cubic slicer and I'm more used
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to Bamboo and orca branches that this
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feels different and that's why I don't
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like it but now that I've spent more
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time with it I'm just cementing my
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opinion that this needs a massive
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overhaul for it to even start to compete
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bamboo Studio keeps getting better with
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every release and even has their STL
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storefront of completely free and well
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curated models built into the app itself
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one app to find a model one app to print
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them but I feel like any cubic would
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take that feedback and go oh people want
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our storefront in the slicer no we want
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a good slicer first then think about
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adding your storefront to it each brand
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has a phone app and these are just
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Echoes of the slicer with the any cubic
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app being quite a bit more messy than
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bamboo handy which yeah is a stupid name
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but this is likely because any cubic
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have tried integrating with various
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weird and wonderful types of printer
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into this app over the years including a
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mix of fdm and resin and bamboo only
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have five fdm printers to worry about
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and all of them are kind of the same
10:19
thing nevertheless bamboo have built
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upon a solid foundation whilst any cubic
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have been scrambling since day one now
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when it comes to the multimaterial units
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which are now day's hot Trend any cubic
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has brought some much desired
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functionality that bamboo have yet to
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deliver not only will both units give us
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the ability to have multicolor prints
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and the ability to queue up multiples of
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the same filament so we never need to
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worry about being in a place to change a
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reel when it runs out but here any cubic
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have also given us a fully enclosed unit
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with an integrated heater for filament
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drying and for anyone new to fdm
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printing yes plastic filament can absorb
10:58
moisture and this can be incredibly
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detrimental to a print quality or even
11:04
success at all and whilst the a1's AMS
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serves the function of multiple reels
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connected to the printer at once for its
11:10
various functions and can be top mounted
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thanks to a 3D printed accessory
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provided by bamboo your filament is left
11:17
open to the elements and well that's not
11:20
the best additionally Bamboo's AMS light
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will only natively accept its own reels
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or reels with an equal diameter Center
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hole for anything else like popular
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cardboard spools you need to 3D print
11:32
accessories to fill the Gap so they
11:35
actually work the AC unit will take any
11:38
type of reel from plastic to cardboard
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and even my own reel of purple any cubic
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filament was slightly damaged on one
11:44
Edge but the unit had no issue feeding
11:46
or attracting this collar any cubic has
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said they will allow up to two AC units
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to work with the Cobra 3 when they
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release their upcoming Hub which will
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allow up to eight colors on one machine
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but we've heard nothing similar from
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bamboo despite the A1 clearly having two
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ports you can plug your AMS light into
12:04
however like with much of the Cobra or
12:06
any cubic in general still this isn't
12:09
the most seamless implementation the AC
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requires its own Mains power supply
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which is totally understandable to power
12:15
the heater but to turn this heater on
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you need to manually tell the printer to
12:20
turn it on set the temperature and how
12:22
long you want it to run for I don't get
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why the printer doesn't just preheat
12:27
before a print starts and then keep it
12:29
on for the exact duration hopefully this
12:32
is a future update but I hope you can
12:34
see by now that these printers pretty
12:36
much match each other in terms of
12:38
features with the A1 having a faster
12:40
swappable nozzle and a better integrated
12:42
more functional camera whilst the Cobra
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has the more feature Rich but less well
12:47
integrated multimaterial system now I
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know price comes into it when deciding
12:52
on a printer and right now the Cobra is
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give or take $50 to $80 cheaper than the
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A1 and remember if you don't want either
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multimaterial system they're both
13:01
cheaper without it it's just not
13:03
presented to you without it when you
13:05
first go to the web page now if you're
13:07
wanting my pick that I don't normally
13:09
like to give but I've got to be honest
13:11
it would easily be the A1 easily even if
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it cost $100 or $150 more because bamboo
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is the brand who have delivered a user
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oriented experience since day one their
13:23
history is filled with success after
13:26
success even when things went wrong they
13:28
succeed Ed in fixing it the software is
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consistently getting developed to add
13:33
new features to their printers years
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after release any cubic software is
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comparatively still somewhat messy and
13:39
has more of a make do approach than a
13:42
make better approach and they
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unfortunately have a history of
13:45
abandoning their machines almost as soon
13:48
as they stop selling them if not before
13:50
because they aren't selling well enough
13:52
and that to us seems like any cubic just
13:55
don't care enough about you or me the
13:57
consumer bamboo has kept a consistent
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design language with many of their parts
14:01
across their ranges now I know if I buy
14:05
an A1 now and invest in several build
14:07
plates that's not a waste because I'm
14:10
more confident that I can still use them
14:12
if I upgrade to a p or X Series in the
14:14
future any cubic have almost as many
14:17
style of build plate as they have
14:19
printers but I'm not here to just trash
14:21
any cubic because they do have their
14:23
best machine ever here I hope people
14:25
will buy it I hope that happens to
14:27
encourage any cubic to invest more in
14:30
this machine software to not only bring
14:32
it in line with bamboo but to get to the
14:35
point where they can push features and
14:36
functionality forward too you know
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actually compete instead of just playing
14:41
at it like everyone else is the Cobra 3
14:44
is any cubic opportunity to prove their
14:47
dedication to their customers and extend
14:49
a product's Life by building a platform
14:51
around it honestly and I don't know
14:53
about you but I'm tired of the annual
14:56
side grade cycle of 3D print printers
14:59
because it doesn't feel like we're
15:00
really getting upgrades anymore if in a
15:03
year from now we see a cobra 4 with
15:05
minimal improvements from the Cobra 3
15:07
whilst bamboo continues to enhance the
15:09
A1 through software updates it will
15:12
highlight a significant contrast this
15:14
will show another generation of any
15:16
Cubit customers the difference between
15:18
making a purchase and making an
15:20
investment but only time and your
15:23
investment in any cubic will show what
15:25
happens so if you're liking the Cobra
15:27
want to save some money now and maybe
15:29
you trust it will be improved upon
15:31
please definitely go and buy one and I
15:34
know I sound like I'm shelling out a
15:35
verbal bamboo handy see told you it was
15:38
a stupid name and many of you still may
15:40
think I must be getting paid by bamboo
15:42
to say this stuff let me be straight As
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I always have been I do not get paid by
15:47
any of the brands to make these videos
15:49
though I wouldn't mind some of that
15:50
sponsorship cash from ancillary Partners
15:53
where's hellofresh because I actually
15:54
use hellofresh why can't they sponsor me
15:57
but anyway I'm not paid by any brand I
15:59
make my money by you clicking my
16:01
affiliate links before you make a
16:03
purchase and I make 2% to 4% less from
16:06
bamboo sales than any cubic sales the
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reason I'm Pro bamboo is because I want
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you to watch my videos choose the right
16:14
printer for you have the experience you
16:17
hoped for and expected because I laid it
16:20
out up front that is what will bring you
16:22
back to me next time when you want to
16:24
spend more on a newer bigger printer
16:27
upgrade and you click my affiliate link
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links again because you know you can
16:30
trust me even when you might not agree
16:33
with me speaking of next time I'd like
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roles until next time me all bamboo me
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all bamboo you'll never have a bother
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with me all bamboo I changed the lyrics
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there a little sorry dick anyway F
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hammer out
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