What do we know about Bambu Lab's next 3D printer? Not much, but the company has apparently left us a few breadcrumbs. Photos from certification filings reveal the P3C, a seemingly compact, enclosed P-series 3D printer with what looks like a seven-head tool-changing system. Think P2S, but with a serious case of multiple personalities. Pricing and launch timing remain a mystery. Seven heads are better than one, but none of them is talking.

Channeling the hackability of the original Ender 3, Creality has started to release STEP files and, eventually, code for its SparkX i7. The great irony? It's using Prusa's tactically developed, anti-clone Open Community License – a license developed to fence Prusa's work off from the companies it complains exploited it – to do it. You can adapt, change, and use the files all you want – just don't try to sell what you build. Creality is, of course, within its rights to use the license. It doing so gives weight to the source-available hardware framework Prusa is championing.

just don't ask it to knit you a sweater. Researchers at TU Delft want your Bambu Lab A1 to take up knitting. They've designed FilaLoom, an open-source DIY attachment using a tool-changing system to alternate between extruding plastic and embedding yarn into prints, producing everything from squishy, fabric-like surfaces to woven structures and cable-driven moving parts. The mod STLs, assembly instructions, and Grasshopper scripts for generating custom G-code are all free so you can give your own A1 a crafty little identity crisis.

And it's unambiguously a toolchanger, sharpening our view that such multi-tool enabled printing really is a new norm in desktop printing –  multi-material capable printers, right out of the box.

So far they've shown 9 tools on a dock that can shifts up out of view it seems. From this shrouded detail-thin teaser, what do you think?

Thingiverse's model library of some 2-million models will be integrated with Anycubic's products in the future, starting with a bridge to Anycubic's MakerOnline repository. Part of the agreement will see select models from Thingiverse converted from STL to 3MF, shortening print setup time.

Thingiverse' relaunch towards open source hardware and the rejection of AI, and Anycubic being, well, largely not that suggest its more a move born from pragmatism than the ideology presented. In any case, this new bridge will directly expose models to potential printerers, which can't be a bad thing.