Bambu Lab A1 Combo - AMS 3D Printer - Unbox & Setup

in today's video we have the bamboo lab A1 and this one specifically is in the combo which comes with the AMS system which lets you print four different colors or combinations so in this video we're going to unbox it set it up and do some prints [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right and so this is the bamboo lab A1 combo very excited about this printer this is the box that comes in we can see here a little picture of what the printer and the multi material system that comes with this printer so the box is not too large and not too heavy at 33 lb on the shipping label let's go ahead and open it up and so the way bamboo lab does it is you have two sides of this plastic bag that's taped to the Box itself and there's little pictures on the side to grab the bag and lift everything out and this technically what comes out so as you guys can see everything is very well packed on the top we got a little air cushions here we have our build plate with the quick start guide so on the top layer we have quite a bit going on and appears to be a lot of the multimaterial parts in the stand the spool holders and these look really cool and there are four of them a little toolkit for the A1 and also a little project that comes with this printer that you can do where it has the hardware that's needed to build what's here on the picture looks like an engine so that's it for the top layer all right so our next layer down also looks quite interesting because we have the main Center here for the multimaterial brackets fers the little cleanout station so this is going to be our main assembly holder for all the spools so the holders will go in here and then these are all of our little extruders detectors for the four different filaments and we do have a little plug here that comes out that plugs into the printer and here we have some kind of of bracket that looks like a filament guide maybe and it Clips on then looks like this piece here maybe connects over here okay so this I think is just the spool holder which makes sense cuz you know if you're just going to use the A1 without the multimaterial system this is where you'd put your spool and this is kind of like a guide for the filament so it doesn't get tangled very nice we got this little Contraption and this is pretty cool because this is where the nozzle comes in purges and then there's a mechanism here that moves the purge out the extra filament flies out to the side so yeah everything's quite nice and well built and thought through and then we have our power cord which we have the US type 3 and 1/2 4 ft all right and so that's this layer so the next layer down we can kind of see we're getting to the printer itself so we have the Gantry which is the upper part here and then we got the base on the bottom again very well packed so there's little paddings everywhere zip ties tape holding things together and so on the very bottom we have our base nestled in this foam let's go ahead and get all this packing material out of the way so we have all of our tubing for the multimaterial system we can get a very small sample of coiled white PLA and here we have the base and looks like this is the front and check this thing out guys it has a little screen that swivels pretty cool everything looks really nice now that we got everything out we should probably get to our quick start guide there and see how we can put all together all right so let's see what the manual says we do get some more stuff in here safety guidelines this one's for the 3D printer this one for the AMS light and then we got the warranty card so this is what our manual looks like it's kind of a small booklet but very nicely presented everything that's included everything inside the accessory box here shows us how to install the bill plate and then putting the printer together so looks like there's a few bolts looks like four on the bottom so they're going really step by step there to you know get the packaging off and what to do next and yeah I guess we need to go ahead and see what we have in here and it appears that it's everything that we need to put the printer together has a little baggie here it says for the base more baggies with labels and you guys can kind of see what kind of tools we get a few Allen wrenches here another nozzle cleaner little rubbery thing and that's actually here on the back of the bed this looks like an extra one we also get a little cleanout needle and a couple of tubes one of them is a lubricant oil and the other one is grease and also there is a blade included which is for the scraper that you print out and then put the blade together and that's the baggie where it says for the scraper and below that you guys can see we get a couple extra Cutters and these are going to be the filament cutters here basically shears for the filment and then we got this little spinning thing that probably goes somewhere yeah very nicely presented only thing is this is not like a carrying case or anything is just a plastic holder which is still nice to have all right so let's go ahead and cut all these zip ties and you're going to need something to cut the ties with there are quite a few of them and again I really like the attention detail we got little plastic wraps around the aluminum plus foam pads everywhere and yeah again the attention to detail is quite incredible all right and now our looks like hot end is free so in the manual here it shows us that we need to take out some bolts to unlock the heated bed cuz this is not moving right now so let's go ahead and flip on its side and there are little green circles and that's where the four bolts are that we need to take them out so let's grab our wrench and remove them kind of surprising that they're using four bolts to hold the bed seems like one or two maybe would have been enough all right that's all four and now our bed should move back and forth so this is going to actually sit you can kind of see here A T opening right on top of here and here we have a little picture that kind of shows how it goes in on an angle and then down and they also say to orientate the screen vertically or fold it in and we probably should have done that before we unzipped everything according to the manual but I don't think it's going to matter too much but you can do however you want so yeah simply the base will just sit right over here let's go ahead and fold the screen and you're going to go in kind of at a angle inside and then lay down and it should line up and kind of fall down and now it's all together actually quite simple so if we go to the back and push our all the way to the front we can see that there's a little cover here and so this cover just pops off there's a little nail tab here that you pull up and the whole cover slides out and it's pretty long cover goes across the whole printer and that exposes all of our mounting points that we need basically everything that's in a green circle is where a bolt will go in and pushing the bed this way reveals a couple more here too and here we have a picture of removing the cover and then showing us where all the bolts go in the little circles very simple and then pushing it the other way for two more and then we're going to reinstall the cover back on so here we have a baggie that says for the base housing and there are quite a few of them and we're simply just going to install them everywhere where there's a green circle so this is definitely going to take a little bit of time but not too bad make sure you get them in there snugly as it does have some resistance but then when you go to the end you can feel that it doesn't go more so so yeah they made it very simple where it's quite logical green circles means bolt and the bolts are all the same actually maybe you guys can see better here from the back and while we're under here you guys can see the kind of rails that the bed rolls on well I guess it's one large rail all right so I put a bolt in every little green circle and we got three bolts left so one is extra because the other two go on the front and we're going to have to move the build plate to the very back and you guys can maybe see here we have the two green circles so yeah pretty simple and you know this is going to be the bulk of the assembly is just putting these bolts in and while we're under here we can see we got a pretty thick belt much thicker than usual and it is very nicely tightened so we don't have to worry about that so for the next part we're going to move the plate back to the very front grab our cover and install it back in and it just Clips on and that's it we are done with connecting the upper portion to the base so for the next part they want us to put the printer on the edge of the table like that so we can access the bottom to connect the bracket and all the cables so we're literally just going to lay the printer on its back here with the front pointing up just like that and actually holds just fine but yeah here we can see how everything lined up we do have a plug here taped that we'll need to plug in and also the other plug here that comes from the upper portion that needs to be also clipped in so you guys can see this little flap there this is where this wire is going to go through there is also a USB type-c that plugs in under here and then and then there is also a little bolt that holds everything together right there and so the way this thing is going to go on is it's going to literally go into these holes the little tabs and then we're going to slide it up to plug in the USB type c and then we're going to run the wires and plug them all in so yeah if you guys can see that we're literally just going in there and when it falls in then we can go up and you guys can see the USB type-c plugged in now we can go ahead and secure it with the bolt so that's not going anywhere let's go ahead and run this plug here going to feed it here through this groove and then around into this section here and so they all have little stickers on them color coded so this is yellow green and white and the plugs are colorcoded also again they made it very simple so let's just go ahead and plug everything in we got the green there for the X motor the white one for the camera and then this one here that travels from the bottom is the X motor that's the I guess orange maybe not yellow here we can kind of adjust the length if we need to make sure everything is nice and tidy so make sure you get your cable in the G Groove really well before you try to lock this little door in so once everything's good we can click it on and everything is secured pretty incredible how much detail and thought went through everything even putting these cables on all right so that was easy enough now we can flip it back around all right so for the next part we're going to go to this side specifically right here and we're going to install The Purge wiper which does have one bolt and it's specific in its own bag and this is the wiper so with the metal part where it says keep clear it's going to go to the front like this and it's literally going to slide in from the back and there's a bolt that will go from the bottom up is this one here so yeah pretty straightforward and not hard to install at all all right that should be good and should be pretty solid and so the way this works is when the head gets here it moves a little slider here and then it purges and it when it moves away it makes the purge fall out this way very clever design it's all mechanical there's nothing electronic about this part so I like like that a lot and so that's actually our last step the next part it goes to the AMS and I think I want to skip that for now and we'll go straight to installing the spool holder on the top because I do want to run this thing just by itself at the start and then we'll put the AMS together and do that here we can kind of see how that will work the spool holds on top and then goes down and goes into one of the AMS actually says here AMS feeds meaning filament will go straight in there so and so this is our spool holder it's all plastic but feels pretty good we have a little clip here some foam pads inside and so it's going to just clip here on top so we're just going to kind of Center up this piece where the spool sits itself and then it just goes over the channel and then locks in the back and that's how it's held so the spool will go here then the fil will fold to this little guide and then down into the hot-end extruder which has this AMS here so we're just going to feed it through any of the four holes yeah simple as that we're pretty much done so let's go ahead and install our Pei sheet which is text Ed on both sides very nice so you can use either side and it does say here it's for pla abs and PG flexible sheet and we're also need to remove this film and then this just lines up to the back and magnetizes down and that's pretty much everything all right so let's take a closer look at the A1 so starting here on top we can see we have the spool holder and it does clip on pretty easily comes off and on so that's pretty nice it is plastic this part unscrews and then we got a little guide up here that swivels and it does look like you can use a PTFE tubing that goes from here to the hot end and actually that's probably what they want you to do is there's five of them in the package so one end will go in there and then the other and any of these four holes so the frame is aluminum with some plastic endcaps and it's already pre-built all together so it's very sturdy and rigid so let's go to the hot end next as it's very interesting we have this main plug that comes out of it and it actually goes over here to this little junction box and then from the junction box we got a main cable that goes down under so we got our pretty cool design here it's like a cutout you can see the motor back there here we have the filament cutter and that actually goes to this side and automatically cuts the filament which is pretty cool that it's all mechanical on the other side here we pretty much have the same look we do have a small little fan down here there is a bolt or screw right here that looks like is the tensioner for the extruder release arm so here we have an adapter that has four inputs and we're just using one for now and it does say AMS on it multimaterial system it actually does push down now here gets even more interesting so this is like an indicator here of flow this front plate here actually comes off if you just kind of squeeze the bottom and pull it out it Clips out and it's got like a little Dome window here inside we can see the little flow wheel and here it kind of shows us how to remove the heat brake with the nozzle so you got to remove the silicone sock first and the easiest way to do that is just kind of pull it on the side and it comes off and here you guys can see how the nozzle and the heat braake here connects it is spring loaded with a clip you just kind of open the clip and then you can pull out the whole nozzle there we go and that's what the nozzle looks like it's definitely unique but should be quite easy to change if you do want to change your diameters or just the nozzle itself it's quite simple and yeah very interesting and pretty unique how it's all engineered here so let's clip it back on there we go and then the sock will just slide over you just got to make sure you put it all the way in so it goes all the way around and we can see underneath how it all sits in our fan trout here with the exhaust ports next to it then we actually have a little bamboo logo underneath so let's go ahead head and put this cover back on simply just put in the top first and then click the bottom in so we are writing on a linear rail on the x-axis here and if we go to this side we can see here we have the little Purge shoot and the way this works is the nozzle goes this way and then it hits that little switch there that slides The Little Door here that way and so what happens is if when the nozzle gets here the door becomes on the other side of the nozzle and so it purges and then when it's done heads that way and so the purge just gets kicked off and dropped here on the ground so yeah quite unique and pretty awesome how it's all mechanical there's nothing electronic here which is awesome very cleverly designed on this and also the cutter here now on this side we also have some pretty cool stuff which is a light here and then we have a camera and the camera has the diffuser on it and so this can just kind of swipe over to the other side and diffuse the light more or you can cover up the camera so it doesn't see anything depending on what you want to do so let's go ahead and uncover that because we want to use the camera it's kind of cool that they give you that option there is a little tiny hole right underneath there you guys can see and I'm wondering if that's a microphone or not so again this is the junction box the main wire comes in and then just comes out here so the wiring is very minimal it's just one here and one here so going down we can see our bill plate and it does come with the pi textured sheet it is coated on both sides which is great this does appear to look the same as the more higher end printers like the p1p and the X1 which is nice to see that you can interchange them and also what's great is we have the 256x 256x 256 mm squared printing volume very generous for this pretty compact printer so we do have the aluminum bed you can see the magnets what magnetizes the bill plate towards the back we have like this little cleanout brush it's kind of like a hard rubber so we do have little bump stops for the build plate to butt against here we have a little note that says to leave enough room for this thing to travel but let's go back to the bump stops because we have something pretty unique here for the back is it looks like there's a couple pieces of connectors there or appears to be maybe but in any case this thing just butts towards the back and then you lay it down and it should be perfect every time so we are writing on Rails on the bottom but you can't see them because there's a cover here and to take it off you just simply unclick it from the back and then pull it out and it's quite a large piece that goes all the way across and here we can see a lot better of what we got under here and this is one large rail we got a large belt all the green little circles is where you put the bolts in to assemble it and there's our Y axis motor if we go to the other side here to the front you guys can kind of see that the rails that it rides on are actually rods it is a metal bearing under there riding on a rod so and very well designed for this budget friendly A1 and here we have a little door that pops off and you can get to the adjustment for The Idler here which is very wide you guys can see and if I roll it back and forth it's pretty much perfectly straight so let's put this back and we'll put the plastic under trim back which Just Clips on so here we can also see some pictures and it kind of explains how the tool head Works pull the cover off also the camera and the light for the lens cover and also reminding you to leave enough room for the bed to travel all the way back which doesn't really go back too much but there is a wire that kind of sticks out going to the front you can see we have a little SD card here and it does say cold swappable underneath so meaning the printer needs to be turned off in order to pull this thing in and out and it is a 32 gig card and here we have a really cool looking screen that actually swivels away and kind of gets more Compact and it's a really nice clean design feels really good the screen's a decent size to too for this medium printer so let's take off the protector here and yeah we'll see how nice it is but I do love how it swivels away which you can do that if you need to the only thing I would say is that it is a little bit offset or if you guys can see it's kind of leaning towards this way so it's not completely flat not a big deal just a little thing I noticed in here it also doesn't sit flat it's kind of like a little bit of an angle but overall pretty cool so here I noticed we got maybe an LED light or some sort or indicator looks like with some kind of light in there so right behind the screen underneath we got some venting this is where our main wire comes out very nice little end caps here and yeah very clean looking printer even under the bed you can't really see much it's just all kind of finished look and the other side's the same way just got some venting here and very nice clean look and flipping around to the back we can see a little better how the x- aaxis is connected on each side to a lead screw so it does have two lead screws but I believe it's Run by One motor and you can kind of see that under underneath we'll look at in a second and going to the very bottom here we can see our cable that goes to the bed it is strained reliefed very nice connection here to the back and this is our input power it is fused with an on and off switch and to the other side we have two plugs here and this is going to be for the AMS the multimaterial system and that's pretty much it it's quite clean here even in the back so we've laid the printer on its side so we can see a little better underneath so this piece here connects to this which is the base you can see this main wire we have a USB plug there and then three more wires plug and one of them goes through here to the Z Motor which is right here and you guys can see there's a belt and I believe this belt runs all around here and then back to here so we have one motor that runs two lead screws very clean under here also we got hard rubber feet and then we got very soft rubber feet on the Four Corners so yeah and some venting here and a manufacturing label there again very cleanly designed and the Beautiful printer and very well made all right so I got the printer plugged in in the back let's go ahead and turn it on all right so there's a little light here that glows and the screen started up and it also makes noises so it appears to have a speaker so here it says Unleash Your creativity start going to choose our language there's quite a few of them here English here we're going to choose our region North America here we can connect to Wi-Fi you can skip this but I'm going to go ahead and connect it so you're going to choose your network and then put in your password all right we've connected here you can connect to the handy app which is bamboo lab's mobile application where you can control the printer from I'm going to skip that for now here you agree to some policies and you can scan this to read what they are here you can join user experience Improvement program so not too sure what that is but we'll skip that so for next part the printer wants to calibrate it's going to do vibration compensation and then motor noise cancellation and it's going to take about 7 minutes so we're go ahead and start that and there we go so we can see that the printer does work everything's moving up down left right and also the bed was moving so here I can see that the wire definitely does not need to be on the back as it will be snagged so it might actually be a good idea to maybe put them together like this but we'll do that a little bit later we're going to let us do his thing we don't need to be touching it cuz it's doing compensations so so you guys can actually well I can hear that the motors are going quieter and quieter as it keeps doing that so they were much louder and now they're much quieter so it's literally canceling the motor sound mostly all you hear is like the bearings moving on the rail all right now it's doing vibration compensation and it actually shows you the herts here 29 30 31 there is some stuff on the table that's vibrating but yeah it's pretty aggressive so I think the screen went into sleep mode Let's see if we can touch it cuz this is pulsing too oh yeah so it did go to sleep or I guess just dim or turn off but that looks like it's done so let's click on some something here I guess if you haven't set up your Wi-Fi you can go back and do it is what it's saying here and there's our main menu so let's check it out here a little closer so we got a bunch of icons on the top so the first part there is our nozzle and then our bed temperature and then what appears to be maybe camera and Wi-Fi signal these are the status then we got print files filament control settings and assistance so if we click on print files we can see there are some that are included with the printer actually quite a few and they say what they are there very nice we got you got puzzles fabric flexible panda looks like it's in multicolor Pocket Copter that looks fun and also the scrapers here which they provided the blade very cool so we're definitely going to have to do that speed benchy there and maybe that's the first print we should do but let's go back and check out filament so here we can load and unload and also edit looks like okay so you can put in here what kind of filament that you're going to use generic pla one okay so I do have bamboo lab pla so I guess we'll change it to that basic pla yeah we're pretty much I think that is basic and then we have Dynamic pressure control which is defaulted very interesting okay and now it changes to pla there so let's go back here we have controls this is where we can preheat the nozzle the bed also control the machine speed and then the fan speed here we have light on and off and actually it was already on you guys can't really see it but it's not very bright but it is there and then we have extruder controls here and then here we have the X Y and Z controls including the home settings we got account the firmware Wi-Fi and maintenance then we got device print options languages sdcard screen off time 15 minutes Lane only mode it's just off terms of use factory reset so yeah pretty basic stuff so if we click on account this is where you can pair it with your bamboo lab account to use the slicer so let's click on firmare and see if we have any kind of updates it does say latest okay so yeah I guess everything looks good here and go back and here we have an assistant it and there's no messages yeah it looks quite simple and easy to use so for next part let's go ahead and load some filament and I got some original bamboo lab pla just regular basic and it's going to sit here on the spool holder and then we're going to run the filament here through the tube into the direct drive so I just kind of buted it against let's go to filament and click on load so it's going to preheat the nozzle and it's going all the way to 250 so after that is going to check filament location cut filament and then pull back current filament and and then push new filament into the extruder and Purge old filament so preheats quite quickly definitely less than a minute here so it's kind of going into that Purge area and there it goes I believe it's pulling it in now so here it's saying that there's an action required the filament grabbed then click done if it didn't click retry so I believe our filament grabbed actually I can't pull it out so but I don't see it being extruded so let's just click retry so now it's pushing it okay now I see it there it is it's coming out so I guess we are good now now we're going to click on done all right so now it's purging even more so if I knew it was going to do that I guess I'd be happy so yeah if it grabbed then you just click done and it keeps purging it but yeah so far pretty easy guys all right so it's purged and it's actually using the fan there to cool it off and then it shoots it out right here as you can see there's a little booger there so I guess let's go ahead and start our print now I didn't see anything about bed leveling so it must do that every time it starts so let's just go ahead and start and see what happens so we're going to click on the file so this probably going to be a pretty fast print so it's saying that the bed temperature is too high not sure why because it's cold but in any case confirm okay so here it does give us options to do bed leveling and dynamic flow calibration and are these okay so they're turned on so you can turn this on and off including a time lapse that's interesting so yeah it's going to do bed leveling and dynamic flow calibration click [Music] print wow that's a lot of sounds there and we do look like like have camera is recording there for the time lapse the bed is heating up now and definitely a pretty nice menu I can tell that the screen is not super sharp but it's sharp enough where it looks good A very pleasant screen and it's colored which is nice and very responsive when touching it as you would expect so here we're waiting for the build plate all right so it's at 53 54 and the printer is already starting to do something I think it's using yeah it's using the nozzle to probe the bed and looks like we do go to 60 on the build plate so I just trying to get rid of that booger but it's still there kind of oh okay then it cleans it on the back look at that know if you guys can see but it was actually cleaning itself on the little brushes in the back of the bed pretty clever so now it's cooling off the nozzle and the bed actually went to 65 I guess and now it's going to do bed leveling so it kind of tells you the status here of what it's doing so it appears it's doing a 7 by S so I guess that's what 49 points and it was actually pretty quick so now it's preheating the nozzle and there it goes so it's purging in the front there okay so it's actually doing Extrusion flow calibration very interesting now it's purging again over there all right so it's printing now and it's going crazy literally so yeah it's on a roll it's not too crazy loud for how fast it's sprinting it does say it's got 14 minutes left so it's I guess a 15minute Beni or maybe 14 I guess but yeah it's boing along like crazy and the fans are not too loud the movements are not loud either and overall it's quite balanced it does make noise obviously at this kind of speeds but it's quite tolerable for sure so let's look at the screen here while it's printing so we got the AI saying okay we got the nozzle bed temperature the flow at 100 fans are 100 we have the light here on and off and it kind of glows right here then we got a pause and stop button if we want to change the temperature we just click on the nozzle and here we can adjust it and also the bed and the flow rate so all your settings come up here and actually I guess I went to the main menu here where it shows you the file is printing the percentage which is 40% done it's unbelievable I guess it's a pretty thin beny there but yeah if you click on that you go back to the printing menu here so yeah pretty explanatory and very easy to understand and this our progress bar here obviously get a preview there of the Beni and we got 11 minutes left 41% done which is pretty incredible and you can fold this away and it's still is on while it's folded yeah very nice little screen I like it a lot and just enough what you need to adjust things so you can go to settings and do stuff while it's printing which is kind of interesting [Music] all right so our 14 minute Ben is done and everything's cooled off and the Machine does go I guess to standby and this is pulsing and it's silent completely so so I wonder how we're supposed to wake it up oh there it goes maybe I wasn't pushing hard enough but yeah here we see it says complete it took 20 minutes total and I'm guessing that's with the warm up and everything cuz the Beni itself was 14 minutes so you can reprint it okay it to be done or you can report flaws if there's any issues and by the way we did use 12 G of filament and just goes back to the main menu so let's see how easy this Beni pops off and look at that perfect and this is what it looks like on the A1 being only 14 minutes long so it's kind of hard to see white hopefully you guys can see something there but overall very very nice we got very even layer adhesion there is a little bit of layering but it's quite minor considering this is printed extremely fast now it is super lightweight so it's optimized just for this there's practically no infill there is a little bit of something inside there that's not perfect but yeah as far as the walls and everything surprisingly nice and maybe I'll do another one in black that way we can see a little better but if we go up one thing I noticed that this cable here just kind of flops around and there is this little clip that was included it's with the tools if we look there's four larger holes and then one smaller one and the smaller one is for this cable I believe so it clicks in there perfectly and holds on and then we can choose any of the larger ones to connect it here to the PTFE tubing it should be pretty good maybe right here so yeah so I think we should see if we can print something else here I think I'm going to go ahead and do the scraper because there is a little kit included with two screws and a blade that we can put the scraper together with so let's just go ahead and print that out not too sure exactly why it's giving me this message but doesn't seem to be affecting our print here and actually I forgot to take off this little Purge I did which is also the filament flow rate calibration I guess but yeah as expected the pi works very well now I don't think we need to do bed leveling again so I'll uncheck that but Dynamic flow calibration I'll leave on it is a little bit colder now than it was earlier so maybe that has something to do with it so let's go ahead and start that and it does say it's going to take an hour and 16 minutes and 37 G of filament so yeah so far just printing one color is quite simple the machine does everything itself you just start it and it takes care of purging making sure it's offset and all that stuff by itself so there is a little booger there on the nozzle I'm just going to leave it and see what happens there keeps wanting to get rid of it but it's still on there so after rubbing on that little rubber brush back there it fell off all right and there it goes and the offset looks perfect very impressive so yeah I really love the Simplicity and how easy it is just to print as you don't really have to think about it the machine does everything itself and again guys this thing is very quiet got my microphone PR pretty close to it right now and there's not much noise coming out so yeah all right so we're going to let this thing print out and then we'll see if we can put the scraper together all right so our scraper is done we click okay here and yeah it printed actually in three different pieces meaning like it finished this then it went to this and then here which is pretty cool so it wasn't going back and forth between the three in any case everything comes off very easy and the bed is pretty much cool it's 29 so pretty good quality here there is a slight stringing pretty thin like Whispers And yeah turned out really nice was actually pretty quick print so this is the holder it's got the bamboo logo there and here they got little indentions maybe you can put like some kind of a label in there or something but yeah the way this works is we're going to grab the two little screws and then we're going to grab our blade be careful it's sharp and so there's two little dimples and they'll line up with the blade and you got to kind of push it in there where it Clips in and then we're going to grab this piece here and it's actually not going to go here but it's going to go on the other side right here and this is just kind of like a thumb thing where you can hold the blade and scrape and the bolts are actually going to go through the front here so be very careful as this blade is sharp grab the wrench we need it's the same one we put the printer together with and we're just going to run the boltt down and then when it starts poking out just a little bit we're going to line up the little thumb thing and then tighten it as we're all holding it down there from the other side and now we'll do the other one all right and that's it and we got our scraper it's pretty nice scraper actually and to keep yourself safe from the blade and just store it it literally slides and just like that look how cool that is and we got a bamboo logo actually on the front here and the wording on the handle so for the next part I'm going to change the filament to Black print another Beni like this and also maybe print some more stuff and we'll see how that turns out and then we'll go to the AMS put it together and do some multicolor prints and so if we click on filament unload it's going to go through the whole process of getting the filament out so it's going to first heat the nozzle check filament location cut the filament so it's going to go over here and use the cutter and then kind of push it out so you can grab it and put another Spool in So yeah so far the loading and unloading of the filament is quite easy and Flawless and you guys saw how it did the cut there actually came up to it and then slowly pushed on it so now it's pushing it out and it should be ready to go let's see here on top yeah it's loose completely and it's got a clean cut so all we got to do is feed it down through the tube and into the extruder and once we butt against something we can stop and then we'll go through the loading process by clicking on load and it's going to do that so it is purging there so it did grab the filament I'm going to click done this going to continue purging and eventually there should be some block coming out there and there it goes it turned to Black and there we go now it is finished finished so yeah guys very simple to change the filament on this machine and you can edit what you put in here by clicking on the edit and choosing what kind of filament you put in and now we can go ahead and print our next print which I'm going to do another Beni in black and I'll leave the dynamic FL calibration on again since we put new film in in so I got a little prompt for update and I started the update but it's been stuck on 32% for about 5 minutes now all right so we got this come up it says update fail please restart and re-update very strange so I guess I'm going to reset the machine and try again so maybe we should go to settings and there we go it actually prompted us again so let's try that again all right hopefully this time it'll work there it goes again on 30 oh there it passed the 32 this time hopefully it's going to work looks like we are going and going now all right so we're actually at 99% and there it goes so it's restarting and the update was successful so the A1 by itself is great but with the AMS it really takes it to another level so let's go ahead and put it together and it's actually much simpler than it looks we have the stand which it is called officially AMS light it's pretty simple stand with some rubber feet underneath here we have the main mechanism which we have the extruders here and there's little buttons you push to release the extruder the filament will feed from the bottom on all sides there and we have color code here we got orange and green and that's going to correlate with the holders themselves like we can see here that's orange so orange is going to go on the orange shaft and they just literally click in so let's go ahead and do that green and you do kind of have to twist them around for them to line up once they do they click in and they are kind of spring loaded if you guys can see that they roll but then they kind of roll back so every time I guess the filament retracts it kind of takes the spool back too so that's pretty clever actually and also multiple spools can fit on here as this is all flexible springy so yeah very excellent thought through design and on the top we can see we got labels it says one two and then three four here too so yeah and obviously you're going to line up one here with this extruder here when you're putting the filament through so the machine knows which one is which and so to install this you just simply set it over the foot and I just realized on the back of here there's quite a bit more information if it might be interesting to somebody but it does run on 24 volts .5 amps so yeah this bottom part here is just literally going to line up on top there and it kind of Falls in right into its place and then we got some of these little bolts or screws that say for AMS and there's two on each side that we're going to thread in to hold it all together now the other side and our AMS is assembled so we do have a wire here and it's not too long looks like about a couple feet and that's going to plug in in the back of our printer which if we flip it around you guys can see in the back we got a couple plugs and looks like it can't handle two of them and theoretically you can plug it into either one but all the pictures show this side here closer to the edge so that's what we'll plug and the instructions explain everything pretty much what we went through and also connecting the PTFE tubing is pretty simple but there is one thing to keep in mind and that is that on this end where they're packed together two of the PTF tubings are longer and so the longer ones are going to go farther away and the shorter ones are going to go closer and so there is no right or wrong just longer goes on the farther away part and the shorter on closer to the part and this is just like inserting anything else there's couplers here insert it and that's it and it should hold it together on all of the sides as you guys can see there so yeah as you can see the Even Flow here going towards the printer now on the print head itself lower it down just a little bit here I do have the single printing tube in there so we can pull that out and I do have some filament in there so probably should have took that out first and obviously we probably should remove that as we don't want extra weight for no reason and here we can see that we have a little spacer and the four outputs which should be very similar in length they might be a little different but should be close but we're just going to Simply click them all into the AMS splitter here which has the four inputs these don't really matter where they go as this is just a funnel into one but you do want to try to put them a straight as possible so they're not all to Tangled between each other yeah you just simply plug them in just like that and then here on the spacer we do have an extra slot for this wire that also slots in and holds it all together so yeah I think that's pretty good so we got to make sure that our AMS is close enough where the nozzle can go all the way that way which you can easily do that as you can see and yeah that's pretty much how you install this thing and it looks really interesting and unique for sure and gives us the ability to print with four different filaments or materials or colors so let's go ahead and Power on the printer and the AMS actually lights up there's little lights right here maybe you guys can see them kind of blinking of hey there needs to be filament in there and speaking of filament this was also in the box and I'm not sure if every printer comes with this but mine did and these are actually oh look at that there's a new firmware available so I guess let's go ahead and update so I've updated it once and this is the second time I'm updating so yeah these are actually samples that bamboo lab includes udes of all the different filaments that they have available so each one of them is labeled what kind it is like this one's pla basic and it has the part number to it so you can find it easily I'm not sure if this is actual print it looks like molded plastic yeah it is molded but yeah pretty much the representation of the different colors and materials that are available from bamboo lab so yeah this gives you a better idea of what it actually looks like before you purchased the filament so it looks like we've updated successfully very nice and everything's been seamless so far with this printer so we're going to be loading in some bamboo filament pla basic to do our first multicolor or yeah I guess multicolor since we're all using pla one thing I'm not too sure about is what color should go we as this is my first time using it but I'm just going to randomly put them in each one and then we'll figure that out but yeah I guess I'll just start over here so it's easier to see yeah so this is going to be number three over here on the front and you're going to want to put where the filament rolls out onto the inside so you're rolling it out to the extruder right here well actually this one's on the inside the 3 one is closer to the middle so yeah but we're just going to Simply fit the spool onto the spool holder and it's going to kind of lock in there I if I can twist this enough show you guys but yeah underneath there on number three which is on the inside so we're going to need to push the extruder button on this right here to release the arm so I can go in okay so I grabbed it's actually pulling it in itself wow that's cool so I guess it knows how much needs to push it through it got to about right here so it didn't go all the way we'll let it do what it's got to do and so the number three light is on now because it does have filament so there are little Motors inside that do push the filament through like an extruder motor so yeah pretty sophisticated system here and we're going to load it up I got white here put that on this side which is number two that's going to be on the inside here and it's feeding this through now pretty awesome so this thing's getting kind of heavy and it is a little bit flimsy I guess understandable as kilog of spools are heavy so here we have also a pla basic but this one is brown which is quite interesting and the spool is different too these are clear and this one's more like a off-white or light light gray when they do come new you do peel it here the tape from the spool and then you can either cut it or take the tape off either way probably cutting it is easier and we'll put this brown as number four and feed that through and it grabbed it and for our last one a little more exciting which is orange color or it's kind of like a hot orange I guess and we're going to put this one as number one all right so it's pulling it in so this is my first time using an AMS so I might do a few things that are incorrect but we'll try to figure it out here you guys probably can't see the screen too well but I'm going to click on filament see what it shows me now okay so it's actually showing me four rolls I don't know how but it knows the color of each one all right right well that's kind of weird I'm a little perplexed because it must have some kind of sensor inside that knows the color or maybe I'm missing something but yeah really impressed that it knows each color all right well that's really interesting and quite impressive so let's see if we have any kind of files here to print that are multicolor we do have this Panda here that looks like multicolor but I guess let's click on and see what happens so we do have a new tab here that says use AMS and it's selected the only issue is our Panda might turn out a little funny because we didn't slice it so it would be interesting to see what colors are used for the panda and before I start that print let's go ahead and take off this spool here and actually the whole spool holder just pops right off very simple and it also comes with extra organizing clip and the tube for the single spool printing if you want to do that all right so looks like everything is ready so I'm just going to click next it's telling me here a few things that I don't completely understand oh okay so it's showing me the colors of what the panda should be so two is white three is black and then the blue is missing which should be somewhere so we didn't do blue maybe we can change the blue to Orange that would be interesting Sobe can we do that okay so we select that and then we select one there we go so basically you choose the colors you want for each of the parts of the printer so I guess when you slice it in the slicer it'll make a lot more sense but it's pretty cool they they still give us the option to choose what colors are going to be used for what so the machine knows the colors which is the impressive part to me or at least I wasn't expecting that so let's go ahead and click on print all right we click print and there we go it's starting and according to the little preview there I think the blue is his eyes so it should be fine as orange but yep it's going to do its usual thing raise you guys up a bit so maybe we could see a little better what's going on here yeah it's just doing bed leveling now and it should get to the interesting part here shortly this seems to be kind of snagging here on the edge maybe instead of the cables kind of pushing towards the back I should have made it made them where they flow more towards the front it's probably something to consider there let's see here maybe we can lower this there we go I think that's better maybe not it's still going over the edge here here we should get some kind of Purge on the side which might be black as the panda is black on the bottom looks like according to the preview there but yeah this is really exciting all right so it's white so it's pulling it in and I can see it just entered the head and now the extruder took over we can kind of see it spinning there and it is actually purging so I had black in there before so it's was pushing that out and there comes out the white I can see it all right it's popped out and it's actually starting well actually no I guess it's doing the flow calibration all right now it's actually Printing and there it goes wow all right well I can't wait to see when it changes the colors I guess it's probably going to go from white to black next and back and forth till eventually it'll get to the blue which is the eyes and maybe something else we'll see but they will be orange as we chose that but yeah guys again very impressive just how everything works so seamlessly so let's let the panda print and we'll see if we can catch a color change here short well I guess it's doing it right now so it's cutting the filament now it's pulling it back and there goes the block wow super impressive so the extruder got it now it's pulling it in so it might be a little premature to say but I feel like this might be the best multimaterial system here that I've used and especially for the price so yeah very impressed with the A1 combo here okay so it's going to make a purge block also that's interesting so even though it is purging on the side it's also making a purge block I guess just to make sure that the color is completely out especially between white and black which kind of makes sense cuz sometimes you can't get all of the black out of the white perfectly unless you flow it quite a bit either way it's doing its thing and our panda is coming along and we can see here on top of the AMS on number three it's blinking as that's the one that's flowing through right now and printing so one thing I didn't realize that this is a pretty long print of 7 hours and 2 minutes left so it looks like we're changing color again the black is coming out and the white is going in all right so it is going to purge the white here on the purge block also it definitely does use up more filament than I would like but I guess that is again at the expense of perfection and maybe the machine does know how much it needs to purge but yeah 7 hours later we should have a panda all right so our Panda finished but not without some drama and let's see how long it took so it did take 7 hours and 15 minutes just like it predicted but what's interesting is about halfway or so the power went out and so the printer shut down and I was actually away and when I came back I was expecting the panda to be release from the bill plate but it actually held up and I didn't touch it and just continued to print now by continuing it for some odd reason it started printing offset and then weirdly enough started printing correctly again later on which is a little bizarre but yeah that's what ended up happening and also another thing that I totally did not expect is how much waste we will have just from this print so we have all of this poopies here or whatever you want to call them and on top of that we also have a purge block and here on the purge block you guys can kind of see where the power went out which was about halfway and how it's offset weirdly enough looks like only on the x-axis definitely surprised about how much filament we used which is 213 G total to print the panda so let's go ahead and look at it it's still stuck to the build plate actually stuck very well it does pop right off as expected and even though this thing was offset it still turned out incredible and we can see on the face here the eyes that we chose to be orange instead of the blue which turned out perfect so yeah if we were looking for Perfection this is absolutely it because going from black to white is very hard as you need to purge it very well and here kind of we can see the offsets as when the printer did turn off and then started printing to the side a bit but what's interesting it corrected itself higher up went back to where it's supposed to be which is kind of odd but yeah this thing is flexible we have great detail here on the paws again there was an offset here but if we ignore that look how clean the white and black is even on these small intricate details same thing here for the fingers on the hands so yeah this is a really cool print their hands are kind of made where they can hang off something which is kind of cool really exciting here for the AMS a little bit unexpected on how much actual filament we're wasting with the purging or I guess I can't really call it wasting as it's changing colors but as far as the AMS itself not a single hiccup everything worked it pulls the filament out with its own Motors as it cuts it here seems to have plenty of power for that and then pushes it in into the extruder that grabs it and does the color change and Purge and print so yeah pretty incredible and again I'm pretty Blown Away with how seamless everything is yeah with that said I think for the next part let's head to the computer let's see if we can make our own model that's multicolor and assign these colors here to a new model and we'll see if we can slice something ourselves and print it out and see how that turns out all right so we're at the computer and I got the little SD card plugged in that was with the printer and this is what's on it so we got cache cam so just random folders looks like the printer uses to store on images what we printed kind of like for the display so yeah it looks like just printer stuff we also also got a recorder and time lapses actually we did make one time lapse in the beginning but unfortunately I can't play it on this computer as it's not compatible for some reason in Avi format that's what's on the SD card not much at all honestly so you are going to need to get the slicer so if we go to the bamboo.com website we can see here that the A1 is presented here with the combo so we're going to click on software to get the bamboo Studios or you can actually use the handy app on your phone to pretty much do everything you need also we're going to do the studio here and so you're going to download it either from Windows or Mac and once you download it open it up which I have mine already opened and I've used this before so when you do first open it you will need to choose your printer choose the nozzle size things like that but yeah it kind of will look like this here so we got the A1 here with a04 nozzle and these are the different nozzles that are available so they actually have other printers that are supported which is pretty cool so we got the bamboo A1 with the4 nozzle selected here we got the build plate type which is a textured pii that comes with the printer and you can choose the different kinds so here we have filament if we click on that we can see that it does read our AMS and has all the colors numbered here and number five is our single color that was PG the last time we used it as far as the AMS here it's all here and you can edit each one here specifically to do different things in different temperatures so yeah we're just going to leave everything the way it is you do have a lot of control over all the settings here we have synchronization from the AMS so if we click this it'll synchronize it which ours is already synced as it knows the colors here but it usually automatically does that but if you need to you can synchronize that so it's the same as what's in the machine and we also have settings here of all the different filaments that the system understands which are all these including some third parties which is pretty cool and generic stuff so yeah you can check and uncheck depending on what you want to use or not we also have custom ones that you can make so yeah lots of options this is a pretty amazing slicer and below that we can see we have the process so this is going to be our slicing parameters we do have a few profiles here this is the optimal and this is what I've been printing on the whole time it seems like it's the best overall which is a .16 might be better to go to a 2 standard which probably would be better so I'm just going to change it to that and everything changes in here when you change that so the advanced here is going to give you more options the toggle so you definitely want to turn that on on if you want to see more stuff but here we have control over quality strength speed support and other so under quality this is our layer height the line width so we're not going to mess with any of that got seam position so yeah you pretty much have everything here that you can control under the quality which we'll leave everything the way it is under strength I do like to bump up the wall Loops to three so as you guys can see if I did that it's going to turn orange meaning that a setting was changed and you can reverse it or you can globally reverse it like I did earlier by clicking this and it'll reset the whole thing back to the original parameters that you know the0 2 standard has so yeah again you can do stuff here and I actually like to bump this up to 18% the infill density it's grid type everything else looks good then we got speed here first layer of 50 and then after that it's going to be 200 on the outer and 300 in the inner so very quick printing so if you're using just pla this is just fine which is what we got set up here so everything is pretty much automatic guys there's not much you need to change or do if you do need supports obviously you enable it here and then you go from there and others we have bed adhesion where you can do skirt around the print which for this printer I found I don't need it or you can even have brim on auto which is it here it's going to make a brim I usually don't want a brim at all so I'll click on no brim so that's something you probably also want to change unless you do want brims which helps the model stick and then here we have actually a pretty important one which is Prime Tower so we can actually get rid of this Prime Tower if we wanted to I think for the next print let's turn it off and see if that's going to save us some filament so here we have special modes including vase mode or spiralize mode that we can click here to also use and that's going to be just a few layers on the bottom and then one layer all the way around the model so yeah that's pretty much all the settings here now if we throw a model in and I'm going to do this Turtle here for our next one which actually has six different pieces so or split up in six parts so if we choose all the parts and drop them in together six of them it's going to actually ask if we want to combine them all as in one piece meaning like make the turtle cuzz if you say no it'll just be all in pieces so we're going to click on yes and it's going to combine them all and that's what it looks like and if you print him just like this he's just going to be one color in the bamboo pla basic here orange and by the way these are all your controls up here for the model so starting here in the middle you got move rotate scale lay on face cut mesh so you can like split it up in pieces you can put text on top of it here we have something interesting where you can actually paint the model so here you you can see we can choose any color out of the five we have which technically four here for our AMS I guess we need to get rid of this number five since we don't use it anymore let see how do we do that maybe click on minus there we go I just selected it and click minus and it disappeared so now we just have the four so you can actually paint the model so let's say you do have just a single model without the separate pieces like we threw in here you can pick let's say we want the eyes white we click on number two here and we can actually paint and it kind of knows where if you don't go over too far you guys can see I painted that let me see zoom in here a little closer so you guys can kind of see I it's painted perfectly pretty much but if I go over more let's see I'm painting right now it kind of spills over and then goes so and I control Z that to go backwards so you can actually paint pretty accurately if you're you know zoomed in enough and pretty careful it's really good at it but if we click on this icon here where it says assembly view what's going to happen is it's going to let us Click on each of the parts that we combined so let's say we just click the shell you guys can see the shell is just highlighted now so now we can assign the shell the color we want and we got these four colors here I guess we'll just do the shell Brown and if we click on his body here we can change that to anything we want let's do just the orange that it was I think that should look pretty good then we got another part over here that we can select it's like this ring around him below let's do that black that looks pretty nice and then we'll select the eyes so that's just going to be the inner parts here and we're going to do that white and then let's select the the round part here which which is also the eyebrows and we'll do that black and look at that now we got all four colors painted on the turtle yeah once you're done with that and you're happy with the colors you chose or the ones you have I guess in your AMS you can click return here and it just goes back to the slicer but now you guys see that it's all set up for printing not only do you get the paintbrush to paint the models you also can color cat them according to the parts themselves as they're assembled so yeah hopefully that made some sense there now we just do what we usually do I guess we'll print them just like that so we're going to click on slice up here it's going to slice the model so when it slices is going to give us all this information here of the filaments and how much it's going to take which is going to be 62 G of the orange 11 of the white 18 of the black and 35 of the brown so yeah and I actually left off the tower and you guys can see the tower is not there now if we did check the tower wherever it is there we go now we can slice it again with the tower and we can see there it is right there so I didn't see how much the total was so this going to take 9 hours wow this is even longer than the other one very strange so yeah not only does it take a long time guys it's quite a bit of filament too so the total filament is 150 g okay well that's not horribly a lot but what if we delete the tower and slice it again here we have 127 G so we saved 23 g or so something like that but I'm not sure if that's going to be good or not but I think we should go ahead and do it without the tower and see what happens I'm quite curious now up here you guys can see we we were in prepare where we were messing around with the model and then it goes into preview when you slice it and the next one after that is device and that's going to be our printer so once we send the file to the printer we're going to go to the device then we got project and calibration but if we go back to the prepare here guys if one thing I wanted to show you if we can see this flushing volumes button if we click on that we can actually see here it says that when it changes the color to a different color this is how much it flushes it out I'm guessing this is in millimeters yeah this is a millim so is going to go through that much filament before it goes to the next color and it is automatically calculated somehow so not sure what the best flushing volume is but I guess we'll leave it automatic but you can change it here and it says it's recommended to be between 117 to 800 and then you have a multiply here so for happy with everything and we're ready to print we're going to click on the print plate and it's going to show us this little preview here of how much time is going to take 8 hours and 23 minutes the amount of filament 1272 we have our printer connected which by the way is pretty simple to connect the printer as long as it's connected to Wi-Fi the bamboo Studios will find it so here we have a choice of doing bed leveling flow Dynamic which I'm going to leave off and time lapse off but we are going to obviously enable the AMS so so if everything looks good all we got to do is send it and it's going to execute our print I'm going to click on send so it's sending it right now and there it goes so we can see this is our device main menu and we can see what the printer is doing so here it's preheating now the bill plate is going to 65 it's on 28 and you can see here you can control the speed the okay so it started the lamp here the fan we got all these X Y and Z controls in the home and we also have the extruder control here so more importantly here we have the AMS and it kind of shows you the status of it and what it's doing also and you can load and unload from here this huge window here is our camera if we click on play it should pop up here yeah it's a little bit buggy on mine I don't know if it's the internet or just a printer if I just stop it and play it sometimes there It Go go yeah but it's very very delayed so it's nice to look at it at a glance plus the angle is kind of not so great either but in any case below that we have the printing progress basically it's at 0% and tells you what it's doing changing filament and the layers here from 0 to 239 and it's going to take 8 hours and 22 minutes and you guys can see here if I click on this here this is the printer that we're connected to I actually have another printer here which is the p1p and you can switch between these two so so you can also access your micro SD card looks like and it says not supported on this printer and then we also have updates here yeah Status is where everything's at and oh the camera is back up but it looks very dark so yeah again my camera is very buggy so it must be something with my camera so yeah there goes those lines against oh there we go well maybe not actually yeah it's back so yeah I'm a little disappointed about the camera and I'm not sure if it's just my unit but yeah it's very laggy and very unreliable seems like then here we have outter recording monitor so I got that off not sure exactly what that is but so in the control also we got print options and here you can turn certain things on and off like recovery the sound that it makes if you don't don't want it to do that and also filament tangle detects here you guys can see that right now it's going to our first color which is the orange here on the AMS so yeah that's pretty much it it's going to just print you can see here we're at 1% now it's homing the tool head actually pretty simple to use and if you want to work on a new project you just go back to prepare here and you do your thing as that Printing and you can always go back to device here and see your updates so and here you guys can see we are printing our first layer we don't have a purge block which is going to be really interesting to see how that turns out but overall everything looks good [Music] w w all right so we've had a little bit of time here with the A1 and we printed out quite a few things and overall the machine performs very well especially for the single printing color I had no issues whatsoever and all the prints turned out great and then using the AMS obviously things get a little more complicated and even with that said this is a very simplistic and probably the most put together multimaterial system that I've used so first let's look at the single material Printing and you guys saw the first Beni and then I actually printed out three more Benes so I did one in black which you guys can see here turned out very well even being 14 minutes long so yeah it does put the layers down beautifully and very quickly we do have something a little bit in there but yeah pretty much perfect I would say now I also sliced the same Beni myself in the bamboo slicer for the recommended most efficient Printing and this is what we got and this is actually if I can remember correctly about 45 to 50 minutes so quite a bit longer and the quality is a little better we do have a little bit discoloring from shiny to mat because of the speed but yeah it is a little bit better there's more detail and definitely a lot more solid beny than this one this one feels much lighter but yeah pretty incredible that even printing at Super speeds you guys can see the fast Beni looks great and here we have another Beni that's printed in a16 layer height instead of the0 2 which the other two are and you guys can see it is pretty clean again not much better than the other ones and this took over an hour to print but we do have more resolution and detail like in the wording back there and just basically more detail we do have more layers yeah and this is in Gray so as you guys can see it does very well with the Benes here we had a pretty interesting print I guess it's like a pan flute so this is supposed to be functional you blow in there we did have some stringing you guys can see there inside it does kind of work I'm not going to attempt to play it I think some of that stringing might be messing up there air flow but in any case it did a great job here and on the black we can really see everything well it's a beautiful piece here and it also comes with the printer I went ahead and printed out more stuff that was included with the printer like this little flyer here and this actually printed in pieces and it's put together and here we have black PLA and this piece actually screws down to hold this piece that falls through yeah very nicely printed out the layers are just beautiful on everything tolerances are perfect so you just put this through and then you put the copter flyer on top and then you pull it and it flies away so and it actually works really good you do have to pull it pretty quick and hard to make it go but definitely a fun little toy so another print here is this gauge for bolts and we have little labels here that tells us what size bolt it is and you can measure it and also the length so this is good just to get a quick idea of what size bolts you got laying around and this was also included with the printer and I printed this in the gray pla so after realizing I had some stringing problem problem I printed a few of these this is just one of them that I got pretty much where I wanted basically I was playing around with how much retraction I need and so in your machine settings you can change the retraction in the bamboo lap slicer and originally comes with 8 retraction and I ended up going to 1.1 I started practically getting perfect Sprints after that so this is a good way to uh test your retractions and adjust them and actually before I did adjust it I printed this bear out which really shows how stringy it is in between the little holes there and also it depends on the filament some filaments a little bit more stringy than others but you guys can see this a pretty cool bear it's like a tricolor changes color and there's a lot of retractions here so turned out very well and bumping the retraction will definitely make all that stuff go away so another print I printed which I thought was going to fit my car this was actually for a different model paddle shifters for an Audi and I printed this actually in ptg and there's two of them so it turned out pretty good there is a little bit of layering issues are sticking and I believe that was because it was printing too fast for PG and I believe if it was slow down it' be pretty much perfect but yeah as you guys can see PG is no issue and it sticks perfectly with this printer and it does look great overall and so for items like this you can print with PG or even ABS shouldn't be a problem for smaller kind of parts or items on this build plate we also have this little octopus and unfortunately we did lose a few legs during printing because they got knocked off well I guess just one leg here almost and then a piece of another here we go but yeah other than that it did print out and this is also a tricolor filament here so it's like black purple and blue looks like and yeah so the bed does stick well but we do need to fine-tune some of the parameters of maybe Z hopping and everything like that I just tore off a piece to get it where it doesn't knock off the pieces so yeah this was printed very fast and my guess is maybe that's part of the reason why it knocked a few of these little parts off off as it was printing is there's a bunch of them that need to stick and then combine together as it prints out but yeah if you guys look at the layers there it's pretty much perfect and looks beautiful so again with single color printing this printer does an excellent job and our largest single print is over here which is a headphone stand yeah this thing did a great job it all printed in one go and this piece actually comes off here from the top so this is basically like a multi-purpose you can hang headphone on both ends or you can just take this piece out and hang one pair with the pads going like this so yeah I thought it was pretty unique and I got into headphone listening recently so I needed some stand yeah we can see it's very smooth here on top beautiful finish so he does a great job but where there was overhang we can kind of see it's not perfect still actually really good for how fast this thing was printing it looks really good there's some bringing in vibrations obviously but overall looks great and I did have to put this together with some M3 bolts with these spacers in between and yeah overall very happy with how this turned out and I'm definitely going to be using this to store my headphones on and speaking about stands I do have another stand over there as you guys can see there's a lot of Purge on the side there and if one thing that needs to be mentioned is that there is a lot of material that gets used up as you do multi coloring so every time a color changes especially from white to black there has to be a lot of purge in between to clean out the nozzle completely so you have a nice clean print this is where we printed the panda here which comes with the printer and we did change his ice to orange instead of the blue which turned out really nice do have a layer shift here this is not completely the printer's fault as the power went out fortunately the pi kept the print stuck even after it was completely cooled off and then when I had power again I was able to resume the print but the issue is is when it resumed it was offset right here but the interesting part is is as it kept printing for some reason and jump back to where it supposed to be which is really odd so I'm thinking this is just a software glitch as it doesn't completely remember where it was and I have another print that did exactly the same thing because there was a storm going by and the power kept going out unfortunately and this was our Purge block not too big but you guys can see a lot of black and white changes there now what happens if you don't use the purge block and this is where we got this Turtle here that we sliced and if you don't use the purge block it doesn't Purge enough go between the colors and so you got color bleed and you can kind of tell here on the bottom part it's a little darker between the oranges that is the color bleed the brown and orange doesn't really affect it too much because they're similar tones you can kind of see that guess the very bottom here the tips that's the actual orange but here we do have some color bleed with the brown and obviously the black definitely color bleeds you can see it even more and that's a lot more noticeable as we go up here we have color bleed from the black into the orange so yeah overall turned out great you do need to use a purge block because if you don't you have to purge even more on the nozzle now I did see an option where you can Purge into the infill and that might actually help a little bit without wasting so much filament but that's something you got to play around with and tune now a print that did do very well as we did use a purge block is this gear and I'm not sure what I did with the purge block but I lost it somewhere in that sea of purge but in any case the gear is pretty unique because this is a functional print and we did different colors for the certain parts so we got the brown on the outside got gray here for two gears we got white for the other two and in black for the last and the middle is also black and what's incredible is this thing printed and just popped off the bill plate and just worked right off the bat if we hold the center we can spin this thing and you guys can see the gears so yeah pretty incredible that it just worked right off the printer and this thing is smooth as butter it's literally perfect and we did this with multiple filaments in different colors so yeah very cool so here we have a headphone stand that did not finish and the reason I didn't want to finish it Not only was I already using a lot of material printing this but but because I had a power outage again unfortunately because of the storm that was going by when I restarted it or resumed printing after the power loss it was offset again just like the panda and I didn't want to continue printing it as it was pretty much a failed print so yeah this was going to be really cool as this is like a also headphone holder with some feet that go this way and a little bracket here that you put the headphones on what was cool about it is that it was three tone here with black and white on the front and gold on the inside and it was looking really really good and I was hoping everything was going to go fine is this was a 30 plus hour print and unfortunately I did have a power out on it and we had to let it go so I might try to print this again as I do really like this combination of colors I was running out of the gold so I would need to get that before I can do it so the next print I kind of custom made here and just an S with a red background and actually the whole back is red you can see here and this is a more simplistic kind of slice but kind of cool in the slicer you can literally paint and select the colors you want on the surfaces and this is what I did here I made a few of these as I'm going to put them on my brake calipers on the car so yeah with the color painter and the slicer you can get really creative what you can make and the more flat the model is the less filament you're going to waste purging so The Purge obviously works with height and how many different colors so yeah if you're going to print something small with lots of different colors you're going to waste a lot of filament and that's this example here which by the way had a huge Purge block and it's heavy and the reason for that is because we got four different colors and we actually got pretty unique colors in here because we Ed Tri filament as some of them so we have a huge amount of mixture here with the different filaments and also lots of detail pieces hopefully I can get close enough here so you guys can see well start at the bottom so we got black on the bottom and then we have on his little feet there we got little black nails on the edges on both sides then we got this tricolor filament going up higher here that kind of turns to green and then the blue which looks really cool so it's like bronze green and blue looks like and then as the shell starts we got a different tricolor filament which is a purple I guess gold and you can't really see this side cuz there's only two sides of it but yeah okay you can kind of see the black there on the front of it so the black is this way and then we got this greeny gold to the purpley blue so then we had the white vest on the front with the black arms again lots of different contrast here and then as we go up our body here is still that same kind as we had down here but we do have like a little piece of black here on the back of the head so yeah kind of hard to see at all but lots of different colors guys and then we got white eyes which turned out pretty good there's a little bit of droppage there on the top yeah all of this guys was painted in in the slicer took a very long time to print and it's pretty small The Purge block is huge and heavier than the print and we had a ton of purge poops over there so you guys can see there's a whole C of them actually you guys can't see all of them unless I completely zoom out but yeah they go pretty far back there and that's just for these Color Prints that we printed here which is a lot of filament that went to waste and with that said even though we do have some drawbacks to you know color printing and multimaterial printing this is still a very well put together machine that works incredibly well from the slicing to the printing and the AMS just being very simple to use and if you use bamboo lab filaments it knows the color of them which is also pretty incredible it's like a built-in sensor there somehow that it knows you can obviously use any brand filament and it still works fine and on that note I do have a few things I want to say or I had a little bit of issues with one was this wire you need to be very careful about it not going around this beam here cuz if it does it's going to snag everything and yeah you're going to have trouble so whenever you set up all your tubes and wires make sure they're all pointing away from here and not towards the back so that's one thing to definitely keep an eye out another thing here is that the AMS system only does more basic materials and can't do things like like TPU so if you want to do TPU printing it would have to be you know just straightly directly into the extruder which I did not test but should work just fine with that another thing I can't show you guys right now but the bill plate is a little tedious to put on it does have the end stops but it tends to kind of fight with you and to line it up just right you do have to butt it just right and put it down not a big deal just something I noticed but yeah other than that there's not too much to really say bad things about this thing it's pretty incredible the power outage restart offset does need to be address somehow and I don't know if it's just my unit or maybe it's software based cuz it did happen on both of the prints and the other part obviously is Purge blocks and material waste and that's something that can probably be addressed somewhat in the slicer with purging into the infill might help a bit yeah as far as color printing goes it's very fun and exciting but very timec consuming as it does take much much longer as the process of changing filaments is also quite long and I think I've said that too much already but I do want to emphasize that you will be going through a lot of filaments and actually guys I just realized that I did show one print here which is spiralize mode I did this little small vase in spiralize mode so it's a few layers on the bottom and then this one layer all the way around kind of complex and actually more strong cuz we have layers that touch each other so it's a little stronger than normal spiralized so yeah spiralized mode is not an issue here with this printer there's a lot of things going for the A1 as the build volume is great at 256 squared which is also like their other printers P1 1 P the X1 it's very quick with single printing I've actually really enjoyed it as the prints come out of this thing really fast and the quality is excellent I love this whole extruder as it's very meticulously designed to work great with cutting the filament loading unloading is easy this indicator here is great to look at what's happening with the extruder movements the perv here is uniquely designed cooling is great the removable stainless steel nozzle is quick to Interchange and it does heat up to 300 C and the bed does go up to 100 c we also get the Pei build plate that's flexible really easy to pop off the models and they actually come off on their own and when we did have power loss the prints didn't pop off even though it completely cooled off for many hours and then it just started printing again we do get a little light here and a camera to monitor the print the linear rail on the x-axis is great and also we got metal rails for the y axis the touchcreen is amazing it is a little bit offset here for whatever reason it does swivel which can be useful I guess but you can kind of see it's off just a little bit which if you have OCD it might bother you but yeah the touchcreen is very responsive and everything is easy to access and makes sense and yeah just the whole software you know once you get into bamboo lab their slicer their printers and how everything just works so well together it's very impressive as a whole so overall I give a huge thumbs up for this thing as I think of what you pay to what you get and going into bamboo laps this is an excellent excellent choice here especially if you're getting started and you want something that's you know more higher end than your typical but with that said if you are not interested in the color printing you can buy this printer with just you know the printer itself and print off of this spool holder here and it does an excellent job with that and I think for anyone that wants to get into three prin this would be a great choice either with the AMS or without depending on what you want to do but I feel like going with the whole combo is probably a better deal as eventually you would want to try it out and there are occasions where you do want to print color printing and you don't mind you know sacrificing some filament for that as it's quite important depending on the project you're doing so yeah the combo here is excellent value overall for what you get so if you guys are interested in this thing I'm going to have some links in the description check it out if you did enjoy this very long video and you got to the end I do really appreciate it hit that like button and if you enjoy videos like this I do have a playlist with a lot of different reviews so check that out and stick around for more 3D 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Length: 88min 48sec (5328 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 02 2024