 This is the brand new bamboo lab a1 mini I've actually been testing this for a couple weeks But only now am I just opening the production model? We'll talk more about that later because that kind of sounds weird But let's dive into what makes this thing tick and what makes it completely different than every bamboo lab printer They put out so far my name's Jim and this is the edge of tech So as mentioned, this is the brand new bamboo lab a1 mini Actually, this is the a1 mini combo. That's right when you hear bamboo lab and combo in the same sentence That means this thing has an AMS and multi-color support. That's so freaking awesome for the form factor of this I actually really love it But this is a box that I literally just cut the top open I have not opened yet But we're gonna do that now so in the top of the box you can see in bamboo lamp fashion It comes sealed in plastic and all of the good stuff sits right in the top So we are gonna pop that out before I do anything Come on. Okay, it's in the box pretty good. It's coming There we go. It all comes kind of packaged nicely like they have done They are very good about packaging their products if we slowly take the top off like that You'll notice that We have a couple of different build surfaces build plates also in the top We have some more parts. We'll talk about that in a few minutes and in this This is where the magic happens. So we're gonna just slowly pull some parts out. This is our AMS stand this is The brand new AMS light. I think I got everything out. Yep And we'll talk about this coming up as well goes on like that. There we go They're actually numbered on this model one two three four There we go Talk more about that in a minute another box in the box. We're gonna set it right there. We got some more foam and this one definitely Looks different than the other one We'll talk about the other one in a minute. That's right. I actually got two of these which is pretty dang cool And I'll explain I'll explain just just bear with me. We got the little spool holder And as you can see this thing looks Like a mini it is a bed slinger It has a little tiny bit of filament right here Not a huge fan of that but also some AMS tubes we're gonna use We'll slide it off over there So right now we have the AMS and the machine We need to put them together, but first we got to get rid of some of that shipping safety stuff We'll do that now. The first thing we want to do is cut the little zip tie that comes wrapped around your hot end And there's also a piece of foam on the other side here on This side that you want to take out. That's the first thing you want to do second You want to pop this bad boy around? And we're gonna remove the safety lock right here Like I said bamboo lab is very good about shipping these things With that with the safety locks and the AMS in the X1 carbons and in the P1S with the combo I got they're just really good about locking everything down for shipping Just making sure, you know, it's not gonna roll. It's not gonna move around I like the fact that they don't just count on the foam to hold it still Would it probably hold it still most of the time probably but this is much safer So there are four screws that hold this little black Plastic injection molded part in here and basically it's just a lock for the hot end It locks it for shipping. You're gonna take out those four screws two in the front right behind the hot end here two on the side And there you go So we're gonna set those aside and we have now removed the four screws and the zip tie Also, I'm using a two millimeter T-handle. I love T-handles. They do include the Allen keys in the set so you can use those too Next we're gonna install the wiper assembly and that's pretty easy It literally slides in on this side of the gantry just like that And then if we find this box here that comes in the foam Inside of this is everything you need all of the screw bags your your Allen wrenches Everything is in there and the really cool thing about this is they do include Basically T-handle the Allen's I I love T-handle. So thank you so much for that. So we're gonna go in here We're gonna find the bag of screws that says for the purge wiper right here. It is one screw And we're just gonna put that screw in straight up through the bottom and that one screw Sits right here. So that wiper assembly Does not come out during printing. It's attached. It's good to go. It's solid Next I've turned the printer around just like that and we're gonna install our spool holder just in case you don't want to use the AMS it does come with a spool holder and It's a real quick install you find the bag that's labeled spool holder It is too a little tiny screws M3 by 12 is what they are and you screw it right to the back of the machine here We grab our spool holder just like this and it goes Like that spool holder installed earlier you saw me put the new AMS light on the AMS light stand and Now we put some screws in it. There's a bag labeled AMS MS light stand. Sorry. We're gonna take a couple of those screws out I'm gonna grab our T handles. You guessed it T handles two on each side. They do give you extras Which is really nice. So we'll just tighten those in and get this thing running Do my Have lost a screw forever on to the next part of the AMS in the foam it actually comes with these pretty pretty sweet spool holders and they are colored green on two of them and yellow on The other two as you can see there. It's kind of hard to see the yellow, but there are green and yellow and We are gonna pop one green and one yellow on each side And they're actually if you can see this let's see if I can turn this around you can see Yellow and green. So all you have to do is match them I'm just dropping everything today. All right. All we have to do is match them So we're gonna slide it on pop it in just like that. We're gonna do that for all four So that was our yellow. That's our green There we go. Now our spool holders right here are good to go now We're actually gonna connect these two together. So I am gonna move my a1 mini right over here And you're gonna want your spool holder on the right side of your a1 mini Then we're gonna grab this bag right here and that has PTFE tubes and there are two different sizes PTFE tubes. There are 580 Millimeter and 700 millimeter PTFE tubes So you want to make sure you're grabbing the correct ones The next thing we need to do is we're actually gonna insert these PTFE tubes where they go in The the hot end right in the top pretty simple grab all four and The one you drop on the floor whoo, so I'm gonna grab a couple of the shorter ones here And there's a really short one right there That's gonna be used if you want to just use your spool holder in the back if you do not have an AMS You're gonna connect your your PTFE tube here Right to the front and right to your hot end and you'll be done If you have the AMS, that's what we're gonna do now So the idea is we want to put the two short ones on the ones closest to the hot end So we're gonna go here And we just push it in nice and tight Just like that and there's another one down here So we're gonna push that one in nice and tight and then we're gonna go to the Closest one in the top of the hot end now this this hot end actually has four inputs for your Filament and I will get a close-up of that you will see that but it does have four so all four of these are now in the hot end here and in the respective AMS slots or Area here whatever you want to call that one two three four is how the filaments gonna go and they're really it's great that they're numbered Because I know in the past we've had you know talking about the AMS on the X1 carbon the P1P P1S Whatever it's always from right to left one two three four, but this is numbered So you don't have to guess the next thing we want to do is grab the little Ring here There is a ring right here, and it's kind of hard to see but you want to grab the ring right there and We want to connect everything together So there is a cable up here, and we want to connect all of our stuff together, so I'm gonna grab This one we're gonna pop it in It does show you in the instructions which way to put these you want the closest ones on the bottom the long ones on the top And then it also holds your cable up here Together to those AMS tubes as well next we just need to plug this bad boy in we are going to unwrap the AMS cable It sits right in the back right here, and it's a pretty good length So you don't have to worry about it being too short, and we're gonna plug it into one of the two AMS slots in the side of the machine here now the thing about that I'm not sure why there's two Kind of makes me excited. Is it possible to do maybe Eight colors eventually. I'm not sure they haven't told me that and I didn't ask But I know that there are two AMS slots right here that you can plug into so we just did that Next we need to plug in our machine and get it rolling, and that's when the magic happens first things first We got to peel that sweet plastic. That's a brand new touchscreen, and we're about to see it I'm gonna flip this power switch in the back of the machine, and you see how fast that just booted up This is a brand Whoa, we got noise. We got sound We got a little music there. This is a brand new Touchscreen here, and we can hit start And we're gonna walk through I'm gonna English. I'm in North America. You can see how fast this thing is We can check this thing on the Wi-Fi, so I'm gonna go ahead and do that off-camera real quick Now the next screen is to connect your printer to your bamboo handy app I'm gonna go ahead and do that But I'm not gonna show you the QR code because I don't want you guys to connect to my printer I'm gonna jump in the app I'm gonna scan this QR code and we're gonna keep moving once you go ahead and link your app you can see here It tells you to make sure that the four screws that we took out earlier out of the lock are removed We can hit confirm and now it is ready to go on a screen itself It shows you that we are gonna start the calibration We're gonna go through a vibration calibration and a motor noise calibration. That's gonna take about Looks like about 13 minutes total We're gonna rock it So I want the motor noise calibration on and here we go now. This is the crazy part So I'm gonna stick my microphone up here so you guys can actually hear this But this motor noise cancellation is crazy Just here getting quieter and quieter It's crazy So what it says it does is it measures the subtle individual differences of each motor for the active noise Cancellation algorithm that they've programmed in I can read that right here, and you can see a progress bar kind of chart right here So we're gonna let this run it is pretty crazy And then we are going to check out the speed test next So we got about four minutes left as it says right there on the screen and down here you can't see it But it's going through different speeds. It started at 50 millimeters a second now We're up to 150 millimeters a second and it's it's doing the active Motor noise cancellation on each of those speeds and it's gonna start speeding up and speeding up and speeding up And it's pretty awesome how it does that so we are currently at 200 millimeters a second 250 300 and that's done now. We're gonna go through a vibration Compensation and this is gonna take about four minutes It measures the mechanical resonance model of the printer for a vibration compensation It reduces artifacts caused by acceleration and allows much faster print speed So it's running up through the frequencies much like the X1 carbons or pretty much all the other ones do actually So it's gonna do that now and we'll be back and just like that. We have calibration complete We're gonna touch the screen and it says we are all set It is at this point that it will tell you there's a new firmware if there is any Here we go when we are all done. This is what the a1 mini looks like we have our AMS on the right our Bowden tubes come down four into one nozzle here and this is your hotend We'll go through these parts in a few minutes But first we need to get some filament on this thing and see a print in action because that's what really matters Bamboo lab did send over a couple rolls of filament one being the PLA basic green as you can see here To put it on you literally just push it on To the spool just like that and then you actually feed it up into the bottom of The AMS you can push this button it pulls it and you're done It'll suck the filament all the way in you can see it kind of right here And it stopped right now about right there Okay Now I'm gonna load another one on this side over here. I'm just gonna toss it on it slides right in like that And it's kind of hard to see on camera, but it's driving right here It's feeding right here, and it goes up to right there I'm gonna put one more roll on and that's gonna be the orange bamboo lab PLA basic and we're gonna put that way over here in slot one So all three are loaded and it's time to get something printed now It's time to print something so i'm gonna jump back onto this touchscreen again. It's it's really good looking it's responsive It works and the first thing i'm gonna print is the benchy the speedboat race they call it here It is the a benchy. It's the speedboat race. It's gonna take about 17 minutes We're gonna hit next on this screen And i'm gonna choose the color we want to use in this case slot one two Three and four are on your screen, and you can actually select which color you want to use with touch I actually like that a lot I'm gonna use the orange because it's easy to see i'm gonna hit go And now it's time to print our first benchy some keen-eyed People might have noticed that I forgot to put my build sheet on so i'm gonna do that now. There you go I put the textured pei sheet right there. So we're heating up our hot end right here It's gonna pull our orange down in and it's gonna start to purge just like it does on the other bamboo lab printers When it gets all the way in there, it's gonna start purging right into our tray right here And I can see that it's working because you can see the extruder turning by that right there So you can see now it's purging right in here It's gonna push it real hard And then as soon as that hot end moves it's going to eject your poop straight off that way Well that didn't go well It's right there it was supposed to shoot it off that way there we go now it fell off anyway So now it's going to go ahead and do the checks on the bed. It's going to do the auto leveling It's going to do the vibration compensation here. It's going to walk through that Because this thing is going to be smoking. So it does have a bed leveling built in and it's going to go down and start touching Like kind of like a little three tap deal. So That's in the back. It's going to wipe like that So it's going to sit in the back and this is like little white brushes. They're like a silicone white brushes way in the back there So now it's homing It's going to come down and home and then it's going to run through a quick series of auto bed leveling And it actually moves pretty fast through this All right, we're ready to rock auto bed leveling is done. It is pooping right here It should eject that poop off the side like we talked about earlier and then it's just going to jump Pretty much straight to the speed benchy. So what this is doing is calibrating the extrusion flow right now Is what the screen says so it can tell all of that right through the hot end now It shot the poop off it's going to drop one little line in the front there like that and then here we go So I was going to let a whole time lapse go of this But I really don't want to take away how fast this thing is I am not going to do a time lapse. I'm going to show you right now in real time while i'm talking How fast this thing is it is so fast. It's hard to keep up with the focus there, but there you go This thing is it's just cruising. It is so fast Again, this is about a 17 minute benchy We have eight minutes to go But I wanted to jump in without doing a full time lapse because I was doing that It was recording the whole thing and then I realized Why do time lapse when it's printing this fast and I can just show you in real time How fast this thing is moving it's printing so fast that you can see your spool move in real time That's pretty crazy while our benchy is printing. I'm going to show you how the ams is lined up So this is one two three and four you can see that there are lights on one two and three because we have filament loaded I don't have filament loaded on four and you can see that right here The light is flashing that tells you which one of the spools Or which one of the slots in the ams. However, you want to say it is actually printing at this time It does this on the uh the full ams two, but there's a blinking light right here That shows you that number one is currently moving as we're printing you can see on the screen here It does show you in full color what the uh Print is in this case because it came from bamboo lab themselves And there is a light button here. So you can turn this little light off and on right here It there's a light up on the side of the hot end and that can turn it on and off It tells you what our temperatures are what our speeds are. So we're at a hundred percent right now Um speed right here. There you go. There is a ludicrous mode That's a hundred and sixty six percent apparently Um fan speeds light your bed And then if we go back It shows you right here. Uh, it's kind of hard to see with the washout But it does show you that we're 78 percent printed And it is rocking and rolling now this went back to the main screen when I touched that That's why it's showing it's kind of hard to see right there. It says 78 percent If I touch that again, it'll take you back to the screen. I showed you It says we have three minutes left in this benchy and That is the main screen there that shows us the model and the percentage left Something else I can show you while it's printing is we have the cutter on this side of your hot end And it actually comes over and cuts it right here. So you'll see when it's done when it wants to retract It's going to come over. It's going to press it against there Which will cut just like the other bamboo lab machines It'll cut that filament off and let it retract cleanly. So that's pretty cool It's on the right hand side and it hits right here to cut You'll also notice we do have linear rails here So you see them right there. That means this thing is going to be smooth and fast Just take care of them and they're going to last and rock and roll for you This is the part where the print is done. We saw the Cut happen right there. It's going to move over Uh purge out a little bit like that. So it's going to purge and then retract in The bed went backwards There you go We're moving up here Bed is going to present itself and your model is right there on the bed And you got a nice little song when it's done on the screen. It does say Uh that it's print complete. You can hit okay or you can hit reprint or you can report flaws down there as well I'm going to hit okay And our benchy is complete 17 minutes. If we take a look at it, it looks pretty dang good For a uh 17 minute benchy off a stock machine That takes almost no time to put together. I'd say A few minutes or less if you're actually putting this thing together and not filming it 10 minutes less for sure, but you can see here it is Very nice. The arches look good The stack looks really nice Now let's jump into some of the things that make this thing special I got to jump in here real quick before we go over some of the really cool technical specs about this printer There's some things in the box that I don't want to forget. Number one is this bamboo lab filament swatches box here This should come with all of them. I think uh at least in the beginning I'm pretty sure they told me that will be coming with all of them and what that is is an actual Package of swatches of all their filaments or almost all their filaments. I believe it's all of them all the different colors Um what they look like and they're these little squares kind of like a little keychain kind of things And each one of them says this is abs for instance if I slip to the other side If I flip to the other side, this is pla basic And you can kind of see what their colors actually look like before you order the bamboo lab filament I think this is super smart, especially because they have their own filament And I love to be able to see all the different colors before I actually purchase them. So nice work on that one bamboo lab I know they're going to offer this on their website as well If you don't get one of these machines, but it does come in the box and I love this The next thing that comes in the box is one of these models and what this is is this There's a few different versions and I have a couple of them in front of me. This one's a lamp This one right here is a wireless mouse And what it is is the guts of everything you need to make this happen with exception of the printable parts It's really cool because it's like a surprise project. You scan it. You go into maker world It'll print straight to your printer from there And then you use the contents of this box to put it together Expect some videos coming up with shorts or something of me doing these projects But this is a really cool idea. I love that they're always doing something fun for us the consumer As I mentioned earlier, this printer is pretty much calibrated fully automatically Uh, you just load the filament in and the printer really does pretty much everything else that you wanted to do As I mentioned earlier, the new hotend actually has a very advanced filament monitoring system It measures how much filament is being pushed into the nozzle how much is coming out How fast the printer is printing and all of this can tell you if you have tangles if you have Blockages if the filament runs out and it's really cool because it even detects slips in the extruder So it is super user friendly if you don't want to do anything No calibration. I mean this thing is pretty dang awesome. It just does it for you Another thing I want to mention is how easy it is to swap the nozzle on the new a1 mini This is the nozzle piece here and all you have to do is come in unclip a little clip The nozzle comes out push the new nozzle in and clip it back in. That's it no wires None of the fancy like running the wires up to the board or anything Even though that wasn't hard to do on the other printers This one makes it that much easier as we saw a little bit earlier It does have the active noise cancellation and that really makes a huge difference when it's running through that And you're next to it. You can hear such a big difference. It's pretty pretty drastic So it's pretty cool because this thing could literally be printing right next to you and really pretty much just hear the fans It actually compensates for a lot of the noise in the machine and it helps this machine Print faster with less issue now the build area on this is 180 by 180 y 180 millimeters I almost never used the full size of my bed on the other bamboo lab printers. I have Matter of fact, I normally only print in the center No matter how big that piece is so this is actually a pretty good size for that And if you're looking to print stuff that's much larger, you're not going to buy this machine anyway So this machine would be great for a person that's printing the smaller things I mean 180 cubed isn't that bad at all Also, it would be great for a print farm where you needed to line a bunch of these up And you wanted to knock out a bunch of small parts or something that would fit on this I mean Prusa has a Prusa mini print farm This could definitely easily do that as we saw earlier with that benchy This thing is just plain fast. They say it can go up to 500 millimeters a second speed-wise and up to 10,000 Millimeters a second squared on the acceleration. I mean it really rips All I can say is just like the other bamboo lab printers. This thing is fast Something we've grown to love on the bamboo lab printers is the ams the automatic material system that we get on the other printers Well, this one does not disappoint This is the ams light it can hold four colors and I'm telling you it works very well It actually is a little bit easier to use than the other ams because once you load the filament Everything is right here. You don't have to mess around with taking screws out or anything like that If the filament gets broken in one of the boat and tubes because all you would have to do is pop the tube open That's it Grab your filament pull it out and put the tube back in all of the parts are right up top and very easily accessible As you can see I printed this three color flexi factory print that's right on the screen I sent it right from the screen last night before I left and it knocked it out Yes, there's the poop. You know, there's definitely poop because there's a lot of color changes Every single layer has colors on this thing. But the really cool thing about that is it did this Very fast because the filament actually sits about right here It doesn't retract all the way back. It doesn't have to go all the way back to the ams Like my x1 carbons or my p1s does it literally goes this far It sits right there and when it's ready to change it drops it back in it is so fast So earlier in the video I said I was testing one for a couple weeks before I actually unboxed This one the production model and that would be this one bamboo lab actually sent me one of their prototype Printers that they ran through while testing the a1 mini to get to the final production model It is super cool that they did this. I actually really like this thing You can see there's some differences all of the panels on this are actually clear So you can see inside you can see what's happening on the inside of everything You can see into the front of the hot end. You can see what's happening on the belts You can see what's happening on below I mean pretty much everywhere and that includes the ams so you can actually watch everything inside work as well It is really cool and I really appreciate bamboo lab for sending this one out Um, it is actually printed very very well I'm not sure where this fell in the prototype line if it was a later model This one does print a little bit better and is a little bit more refined But that's to be expected because this was one of the prototypes and I actually have it I I love that. Thank you so much bamboo lab for shooting me over this one right here I shall call him a1 mini P for prototype Now the last thing I want to talk about that kind of goes with all of this Is the new bamboo maker world that has been a really cool beta to be testing in I load it on my phone in an app and you can actually get it on your pc as well And it's just so cool. I I love being able to hold the app hold my phone And scroll through models and just say yes, I want this one and then it'll ask me which printer I want to send it to I say I want to send it to the a1 mini or an x1 carbon Um, and then it asks me okay, which one you want to send it to and it lists all of my printers I love that I can do that. I actually find myself When I have a few extra minutes just kind of like scrolling through there looking for some cool stuff to print And the cool thing about the a1 mini is it's baked right in It's right on the screen you go to your prints and you can actually start looking in maker world I mean, that's where the little flexi factory Um bear came from here and I just told it to print right from there There was no slicing or anything like that. It just did it now It does ask you if you want to use your ams, of course And what colors you want to use this is a three color print the eyes are actually orange Which is kind of creepy, but that's my fault. I meant to make the eyes green and the bear You know these parts orange, but I picked them in the wrong order Uh, but it's really cool to be able to do that and I find myself playing with that It does So much more than just that though So as soon as it releases jump on there and and check it out because it's a really cool feature I think it's going to be a really good beneficial place for makers. Um, they're crediting everybody They're making sure everybody gets the credit for the models and it's a very welcome community. I guess you could say Uh, there's stuff from, you know, flexi factory 3d print bunny I mean just tons of people on there that you can just select print and shoot it right to your printer So jump on check it out as soon as it releases. It's maker world by bamboo lab So overall the last couple weeks with the a1 mini machines here have been actually really good I was surprised when I when I got this I did not expect this at all And I think most people are not expecting this at all, but I really like them I really like them both and I printed a ton of stuff on here I put some stuff out and I'll show it as I'm talking in b-roll But I mean the thing is reliable. It prints good It's fast and I could easily see this being my brand new Go-to recommendation for new people that are into 3d printing I know I said this last year Kamikaze bear You jumped right into the poop I know I said this last year when the x1 carbon came out But this is the closest thing to out of the box 3d printing like set it and forget it that I have ever seen yet And they just keep innovating and they keep bringing out new stuff Um, I I definitely am going to suggest this to new people as their very first 3d printer at the time of this recording I don't have the price yet But they're saying that the price is going to be very competitive for a machine like this And I can't wait to see what that is because if the price is low enough This is going to be the best beginner machine that you can get To give to somebody whether you get the ams light or not I might even go as far as saying this is very controversial That this is the Prusa mini killer because of the speed and the price And the everything so You don't quote me on that and don't hate me if you love Prusa. I have a Prusa mini. It's it's awesome, but uh I mean come on come on So I tell you what this is uh, September 20th is today the day that this will be releasing If you want to see one of these in person come out to the east coast rep rap festival in Bel Air, Maryland I will be the mc and also if everything goes right. I will be attempting a world record So come check us out there and I will make sure to have one of these or maybe both there If I can get them out there, let me know in the comments Which one you want to see if you want to see the prototype or the actual production model Let me know I'd be interested in what you guys want to see at Earth at the east coast rep rap festival and as always don't forget to check out this video right here I think you're gonna like that one