One of the things I enjoy most about 3D printing is that every project teaches you something. Sometimes the lesson comes from a successful print. Sometimes it comes from a failure. Recently, a golf ball dispenser project reminded me of an important lesson about material selection and the differences between
There’s a point in 3D printing where you stop asking: “Will it print?” …and start asking: “How do I make this look professionally made?” That’s where I’ve been lately. Over the past several days I’ve been tuning multi-material PETG prints on the Snapmaker U1 while also
This is what stopped one of my main printers cold. I had a 24-hour print running — two football helmets — and everything looked fine… until it didn’t. About two-thirds of the way through, the print failed. Not a simple layer shift or adhesion issue, but something deeper. The issue turned
For the longest time, I thought I had a pretty good handle on the world of 3D-printing filaments. Like most people in the hobby, my journey started with PLA, moved into PETG, and then branched out into things like PLA+, PETG-HF, ASA, and some of the carbon-fiber blends. After printing
One of the larger prints I’ve done recently is a functional outdoor birdhouse. The full model would have taken close to 40 hours on a single printer, so instead I split the parts across four machines and ran them simultaneously. That cut the total production time dramatically and gave
High-speed printers like the Bambu Lab H2D are incredibly fast, but that speed can also mean a lot of movement and vibration during printing. When the printer is running aggressive travel moves, the entire machine can sometimes transfer that energy into the table or bench it’s sitting on. In
Welcome to Bianco Labs, the workshop blog where I share practical solutions for 3D printing, Bambu printer tuning, and real-world projects from my shop. My name is Ronnie Bianco, and I’ve spent most of my life building, fixing, and experimenting with things—from computers and electronics to tools, photography,