/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1903203
>Thoughts on the Artillery Sidewinder X1?
Got the smaller brother, Genius. But don't have a comparison, since it's my first. Decent for beginners, but not completely without starting problems.
Maybe the decisive point between Artillery and Ender is, if one wants to start with a direct drive or Boden. I also considered Anicubic, but their shipping wasn't attractive and they're not on AliExpress. The Artilleries also have a bed with the normal current 110/230V from your outlet, which makes the bed heating fast, but it might be dangerous and kill you or at least burn down your house. Though, not everyone sees it as a risk and there are printed addons to mitigate it. Like the economy, it's probably fine somehow.
I hope to print flexible stuff for air muscles (picture) and such, seems to work better with direct drive. Also it's considered to be a relatively quiet printer, which it is, but with high speed and jerk it gets louder. Sometimes I don't here it starting with the first layers, while sitting next to it and a ventilator is running somewhere.
I went with the smaller brother bc it's enough for most parts and for big prints coreXY might be better anyways, so I might get another one with that later. Sapphire Plus or whatever.