HUGE ANNONCEMENT!!

Hey everyone!

Okay, I've been under a strict NDA for a while, but today I finally have the green light to reveal the machine that has completely taken over my workshop.

You all know how passionate I am for 3D printing, and you know how much I love making multi color prints. A few months ago, a major manufacturer (I’m still under strict NDA for their name, let's call them "Project Chromatic") reached out. They were looking for creators to stress-test their pre-production flagship.

Well, I got selected and they delivered the "Aether 1 PolyBlend" and holy moly, the marketing hype is actually truie.

Here are the specs I've been hitting with this prototype:

• Mind-Blowing Speed: It is consistently printing at 1000mm/s with accelerations that are unreal. I've been testing many of my models and many AMS parts, it is 3x faster than my fastest tuned Bambu setup for single color prints. Buts whats even crazier is it also prints AMS parts at nearly the same speed with no purge tower or filament waste!!!

• The "True CMYW" Angle: Forget simple color changes. The Aether 1 uses an integrated material station (pictured below) that holds standard 1kg rolls. The secret is their proprietary "PolyBlend" hotend. It doesn't just switch filaments; it blends them in real-time. This means:

• True Gradients: You can program smooth color transitions from red to blue within a single layer.

• Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/White (CMYW) Mixing: Just like a high-end inkjet printer, it can mix these base colors (using white to lift the brightness) to create literally thousands of custom colors and full-color texture printing. Just look how amazing this printer is below!

...APRIL FOOLS! 😜

Alright, don't hate me! While I wish my workshop had this kind of technology, the "Aether 1" is sadly a figment of our collective imagination (and some advanced prompt engineering!).

Who knows maybe in the future a full CMYW filament mixing can do 1000mm/s prints. But hey, it’s fun to dream!

Thanks for being the best community a creator could ask for. Hope you enjoyed this fun leak! More Playco3D models are on the way, so get your printers ready!