Bambu Lab X1-Carbon receives a boost thanks to the X1Plus extension card
Bambu Lab X1-Carbon, an excellent 3D printer, propelled Bambu Lab at the top of the 3D public printing industry.
However, over time, its weaknesses, in particular its owner ecosystem limiting the possibilities of improvement, have become obvious.
Fortunately, the Open Source X1Plus firmware and the X1Plus extension card offer a solution.
X1Plus: release the potential of your printer.
The X1Plus card replaces the firmware owner of the 3D Bambu Lab X1 printers.
It offers interesting features from the start, such as calibration tools and assignable material buttons.
But its real asset lies in its open source character, ideal for those who appreciate Bambu Lab equipment but wish to free themselves from the limitations of the firmware and the proprietary software.
The X1Plus extension card: widen your horizons
Connectivity and increased possibilities that X1Plus is promising, its potential is limited by the available equipment.
The X1Plus extension card changes the situation by allowing to add new cameras, sensors, network connectivity, lights, etc.
Connectivity and increased possibilities
The X1Plus extension card connects to the Bambu Lab X1 control card and discreetly lodges behind the touch screen in a 3D printed case.
It offers USB-A 2.0 ports, an Ethernet 10/100MBPS port, four special GPIO extension connectors and an I2C Stemma-QT/QWIIC 3.3V connector.
Integrated regulators convert the printer 24V to 5V and 3.3V for these connectors.
Additional exciting features
These ports and connectors can be used directly, for example for a USB webcam or a LAN connection, but additional cards are also planned.
One of them, particularly interesting, makes it possible to trigger the shutter of external cameras, thus offering the possibility of making high quality timelaps of the prints.
Users are also free to design their own additional cards to add the features of their choice.