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2 articles First covered May 3, 2026, latest May 13, 2026
Jeff Geerling at his workbench with a 3D printer, from his Raspberry Pi magazine profile
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The OrcaSlicer fork Bambu Lab killed has six mirrors. Jeff Geerling joined the boycott.

FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab hit 1,700 stars on May 12. Geerling won't recommend a Bambu printer again, and Louis Rossmann pledged $10,000 toward Jarczak's defense.

Bambu Lab 3D printer printing a part on its bed
Hardware·

Bambu Lab killed an OrcaSlicer fork by lawyer letter. The fork was based on Bambu's own AGPL code.

Pawel Jarczak pulled OrcaSlicer-bambulab off GitHub on May 1 after Bambu Lab's legal team accused him of impersonating Bambu Studio and bypassing authorization.