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This episode is slightly different because Stefan records it straight from Covid isolation which he caught, as many others, at this year's Midwest Reprap Festival in Goshen, IN. After a short status check and some stories from MRRF, Tom and Stefan discuss the recent merger of Ultimaker and Makerbot and what this will mean for the two brands as well as Thingiverse. Staying on the topic of Ultimaker, both talk about CURAs new Arachne slicing engine that dynamically adjusts extrusion width for more detailed and denser parts. Since CURA is open source, Prusa also implemented that feature in their new 2.5 alpha version of Prusa Slicer. Talking about open source, Tom and Stefan discuss the recent issues of Bambulab and QIDI not releasing the source code of their modified PrusaSlicer and CURA builds. The final section covers the question of what happened to PlyBot?

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SHOW NOTES ###
Makerbot Ultimaker merger: https://press.ultimaker.com/makerbot-...
Ultimaker 5.0 with Arachne: https://ultimaker.com/learn/ultimaker...
Paper - A Framework for Adaptive Width Control of Dense Contour-Parallel Toolpaths in Fused Deposition Modeling: https://repository.tudelft.nl/islando...
PrusaSlicer 2.5 alpha: https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlice...
BambuSlicer Source Issue: https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlice...
QIDI Source Issue: https://twitter.com/a65519528/status/...
Bambulab Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
PlyBot Kickstarter Updates: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

TIMESTAMPS ###
00:00 Episode XX
02:50 Covid & MRRF
20:27 Sponsor Segment
22:20 Ultimaker + Makerbot merger
34:42 Slicing Revolution with CURA Arachne
44:00 BambuSlicer and QIDI Open Source Issues
57:35 PlyBot