The Bambu Lab P1S 3D Printer is about as easy as this hobby can get, with simple setup, one-button printing from an app, auto-leveling, and a four-spool AMS, it'll be hard to stop printing.

Josef Prusa of Prusa Research has raised serious concerns about Bambu Lab’s Bambu Studio slicer software. The program, a fork of the open-source PrusaSlicer, incorporates a closed-source networking plugin that Prusa describes as an unauditable “black box” downloaded from a CDN and capable of remote replacement. Prusa says this is dangerous because Chinese laws require companies to help their intelligence agencies and share encryption keys, and slicers handle sensitive 3D design files used in research labs, universities, and defense work. He also claims that Bambu Lab is breaking the open-source license rules by adding this closed part.

This is wild. An MIT professor spun up a team of Grok agents and asked them to solve a complex materials problem end-to-end. They started with four random photos of natural structures. Ended with actual 3D-printed parts sitting on a Bambu Lab bed. The agents did the entire loop. Even messaged the human on his Apple Watch while printing. We’re crossing into territory where AI doesn’t just think about the physical world it acts on it.