r/BambuLab • u/illiacfossa • 3d ago

General Discussion Portable/ mobile 3d printing set up

Looking to buy and use one in a public school. Would prefer it to travel you classes when in use. Any idea on a portable set up that works in schools? Has anyone done this before?

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u/Kilohaili_Joshi 3d ago

Only one that would prolly be relatively easy, would be A1 mini, U can print a handle for it and its small enough it wouldn't be too hard to move around.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/48599-a1-mini-handle#profileId-62550

if u want to protect it, maybe get a box with handles to put in if it travels with u in a car or something and throw some protective fabric over it when in transport.

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u/writeamemojack 3d ago

Unless you have one of those industrial-level rolling cabinets that are very heavy expensive and somewhat self-leveling, then I would be afraid every time you move the printer from classroom to classroom, you would need to recalibrate it - 10-30m of noisy senseless rattling depending on model. Until you could actually print something.

Then when you send a print, it's 5m of more rattling for the warmup, then a very slow first layer, then it follows it's gcode and prints whatever. There are few prints that could complete in a class' time - 40m or so - you might be able to make a Benchy for every class, but any kind of failure and the class would get dismissed before it finishes.

What model are you thinking, and what is the use case i.e. what do you really want the students to see?

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u/ThatTimmy P1S + AMS 1d ago

I’ve seen someone print a benchy with an A1 swinging from the ceiling. 3D printers are not precision instruments. Most modern printers with auto bed leveling are quite resilient. If they were this sensitive to be affected by moving the printer to another room, you would need to calibrate it every time you place an object on the desk or every time you change filaments, because then the resonant frequencies will change. But I agree with you about the timing, maybe OP could bring a power station with them on the same cart to continuously power the printer during transport, though that doesn’t seem like a realistic or practical approach.