X1Plus Expander

Add lights, sensors, cameras, and more to your Bambu Lab X1 Carbon printer

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Dec 10, 2024

Project update 5 of 6

A Mini-Update About Our New Cables

by Joshua Wise

X1Plus Expander cable aficionados,

I hadn’t planned to write another update until the campaign closed but I wanted to give yinz a mini-update hot on the heels of the last update, since I know that yinz love cables so much.

Holy Cow, the New Cables Look Really Good

Today I got a box on my front door from Xiamen! What’s in the box?

It’s… another box! If you can read Chinese and can tell me what that says I’d be interested to hear.

Oh, look! Cables! They look pretty darn good. Neatly packaged. And I even got an extra — I ordered 5 samples, and they sent me 6! Yield must have been good!

One cable, on my desk. I put one in a Panavise and gave it a pretty serious tug, and it came flying out of the Panavise before I managed to break it, so that’s good!

Gosh these are so much nicer to route than the loose wires. I’ll probably shorten up the power wire a little bit, and I’m getting a heat shrink labeler tomorrow so I’ll experiment some with trying to put some text to indicate what plugs into where. Other than that, we’re good.

It seals up so much more cleanly with the A03 cables.

Ok that’s it for today. You have a couple days left to order your Expander! I’m only going to send you ONE MORE E-MAIL from here to remind you!

Talk soon,
joshua


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