For once, All3DP's lab printers aren't being put through their paces for reviews, tortured with benchmark prints, or feeding our increasingly concerning fidget spinner addiction. Instead, our senior editor Matt has commandeered nearly every printer in the lab for one gloriously oversized mission: creating a nearly three-meter-wide 3D printed assembly for our Craftcloud by All3DP booth at Formnext. Because why start small when you have an entire room full of 3D printers and questionable impulse control?

See it for yourself at Formnext in Frankfurt, Nov. 17–20, Hall 12.1, Booth E66.

What do we know about Bambu Lab's next 3D printer? Not much, but the company has apparently left us a few breadcrumbs. Photos from certification filings reveal the P3C, a seemingly compact, enclosed P-series 3D printer with what looks like a seven-head tool-changing system. Think P2S, but with a serious case of multiple personalities. Pricing and launch timing remain a mystery. Seven heads are better than one, but none of them is talking.

Channeling the hackability of the original Ender 3, Creality has started to release STEP files and, eventually, code for its SparkX i7. The great irony? It's using Prusa's tactically developed, anti-clone Open Community License – a license developed to fence Prusa's work off from the companies it complains exploited it – to do it. You can adapt, change, and use the files all you want – just don't try to sell what you build. Creality is, of course, within its rights to use the license. It doing so gives weight to the source-available hardware framework Prusa is championing.