Bambu Lab
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Business
What a 3D Print Actually Costs: Calculating Cost Per Part
Filament price is only part of the bill. A step-by-step breakdown of material, electricity, machine depreciation, failure rate, and labor costs, with a full worked example calculating the true cost of one printed part.
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Guides
A Single 20-Second Laser Flash Now Prints an Entire 3D Microstructure at Once
Utah engineers built a holographic 3D printer that solidifies a whole microstructure from one 20-second laser exposure instead of hours of layer-by-layer scanning — for now, only at micrometer scale.
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Business
Snapmaker Raises Roughly €129M Series C — The Largest Consumer 3D-Printing Round in Two Years
Shenzhen's Snapmaker closed a ¥1 billion (~€129M/$140M) Series C on July 8, 2026, led by Cathay Capital, in what the company calls the largest consumer 3D-printing funding round in two years.
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Industry
How the 3D Printing Community Raced to Help Venezuela After Its Deadliest Earthquake Since 1900
After a 7.5-magnitude quake devastated Yaracuy State, 97 maker teams in 11 countries printed thousands of open-sourced splints within two weeks, backed by a $50,000 Bambu Lab pledge and a filament fundraiser for UN Crisis Relief.
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Industry
AMAA 2026: How 3D Printing Is Quietly Rebuilding Military and Conservation Drones
Ahead of the AMAA 2026 defense-and-aerospace conference, a new industry preview details how HP MJF printing is now shaping everything from $400 Army FPV drones to a 0.8mm-walled anti-poaching UAV in Zambia.
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Printers
Formnext Asia Shenzhen Adds a Maker Day and Global Dealer-Matching Program for 2026
Formnext Asia Shenzhen's August 2026 edition gets a hands-on Maker Day with factory tours and an open-mic forum, plus a formal matchmaking program pairing overseas distributors with Chinese 3D printing giants like Bambu Lab, Creality, and Elegoo.
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Software
OrcaSlicer 2.4.2 Lands With Preset-Recovery Fixes and More Reliable Cloud Sync
OrcaSlicer 2.4.2, released July 7, 2026, repairs presets broken by renamed printer/filament profiles, stops cloud sync from silently re-enabling disabled filament overrides, and squashes several crash bugs.
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Guides
ASTM's New Defense Certification Guide Aims to End the AM Qualification Patchwork
ASTM and the UK MOD's Project TAMPA published a free, tech-agnostic guide that sorts 3D-printed defense parts into four criticality classes and two certification paths, aiming to stop programs from reinventing AM qualification from scratch.
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Software
Makr3D Opens Beta for a White-Label 3D-Print Fulfillment Platform Aimed at Etsy and Shopify Sellers
UK-based Yorkshire3D has opened beta access to Makr3D, a cloud fulfillment service that prints, checks, packs, and ships 3D-printed goods under a seller's own brand from a 100+ Bambu Lab printer farm.
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Printers
Prusa Ships the First INDX Founder's Edition Units — And Firmware 6.6.1 Fixes the Growing Pains
Bondtech has begun shipping Founder's Edition INDX toolchangers as Prusa's 6.6.1 firmware squashes early bugs, setting up a direct price-and-waste showdown with Bambu Lab's H2C.
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Materials
UCLA Team 3D Prints a Zinc-Ion Battery Electrode on a Desktop Resin Printer, Storing 7x the Charge
UCLA chemists turned an Elegoo Mars 3 Pro lattice print into a carbon-vanadium oxide electrode that stores 7x the charge of comparable devices and holds 82% capacity after 1,500 cycles.
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Materials
SUNLU's New AMS Lite Heater Adds Active Drying to Bambu Lab's Budget AMS — While You Print
SUNLU's $129.99 AMS Lite Heater bolts active, in-print filament drying (up to 70°C) and humidity monitoring onto Bambu Lab's AMS Lite, launching July 20, 2026.
