May as well get a little national PR out of it given current geopolitics.
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The top SEO’d buyers guide websites are pretty useless in my experience.
That said, having owned a dozen different printers for my own business’s prototyping work, the Bambu labs are truly fantastic. I retired 3 ultimaker S7s for 2 X1 Carbons and haven’t looked back. The Bambu labs legitimately print 3-4x faster and have as good if not better surface finish. AMS system is ingenious. Only thing I did was x-y squareness/skew compensation so both printers make the same sized parts (the printers aren’t perfectly square from the factory). There are guides on how to use M1005 gcode command.
Clearly not in Bezos’s case.
There is no magic involved here, some people have the skill/experience to lead the design, build, and selling of innovative hardware, others don’t.
For example, for designing new rockets, one of the major things Musk innovated at SpaceX was the traditional aerospace design cycle. Instead of spending 5 years on countless analyses and few actual tests, like the incumbents did/do, SpaceX built and destructed as many prototypes as possible, learning rapidly and innovating. Musk knows what innovative design truly requires.
What did Bezos do? He hired a bunch of ex-Lockheed and Boeing engineers/leads (from an industry that for decades has not felt market-driven pressure to innovate), and those engineers/leads just kept doing things the old fashion way.
When the person in charge (Bezos) misses this detail, no amount of money or wishful thinking will fix this.
They still don’t know root cause(s). That’s real bad Frank.
I don’t think the two are remotely comparable in perf/watt.
But to put your own life and others at risk making that move... whoooooooweeeeee, that's fully into batshit crazy land.
The CNC controller world has been trying to solve this problem for decades. Turning everything into line segments seems to go in opposite direction of this progress.
So read another way, they mispriced their repair plan and it’s costing them money.
https://thedebrief.org/fact-check-q-a-with-debrief-co-founde...
Then recognized same pattern in every TV ad afterwards, almost all target some sort of insecurity or feeling of lack.
Overselling these “discoveries” though: https://www.compliantmechanisms.byu.edu/about-developable-me...
All are parallel 4-bar or spherical 4-bars which have been known for centuries. Getting fancy with the shapes of the “bars” isn’t novel.
Walmart’s fraud dept looks much different than Nordstrom’s I would suspect, but both know their respective landscapes and successfully navigate them.