Ooh, how did that test go? <div><br></div><div>I am currently evaluating options for a first 3d printer for a few of us to use over here in Oakland. There are a lot of options to choose from, and it seems with each option i hear several wildly diverging opinions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any opinions you folks would care to share? This will be the first time we'll be diving into that world, tho generally pretty comfortable with electronics and some hw/sw hacking. Primary goal is to end up with a printer that actually prints things, tho we'll be happy if we can learn how to build one in the process, Hoping to spend orders of man-weeks getting up and running, not man-months. Prefer open-source style, but not limited to -- looking to spend less than $1.5k. Haven't been super impressed with FDM/ABS/PLA end results, but have only seen one resin-based one which looks still to early to rely on it actually working in the end.</div>
<div><br></div><div>thanks in advance for any thoughts/advise/opinions you can share. Hope to make it over there one of these days to chitchat in person</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>best</div><div>dave</div><div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Martin Bogomolni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martinbogo@gmail.com" target="_blank">martinbogo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Yeah, the printer suffered a heater failure Sunday. I actually still<br>
have a couple prints from the machine from my Maker Faire 'goodie bag'<br>
(I tried to get all the printers to make a copy of the same thing from<br>
thingiverse to compare: <a href="http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11682" target="_blank">http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11682</a> )<br>
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Gopiballava Flaherty<br>
<<a href="mailto:gopiballava@gmail.com">gopiballava@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I didn't talk to the guy, but the printer he had on display was putting out some rather sub-par looking prints. I don't remember the precise issues.<br>
><br>
> His theoretical descriptions of how well his solution was supposed to work sounded good. Did you get to handle the output and watch it print?<br>
><br>
> I saw the printer in Sunday afternoon, so perhaps it had been poked and prodded by too many people by then.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> gopi@iPad<br>
><br>
> On Jun 10, 2012, at 20:42, Martin Bogomolni <<a href="mailto:martinbogo@gmail.com">martinbogo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I met the creator of the Fabbster at Maker Faire this year.<br>
>><br>
>> The innovative thing about Fabbster is that he solved one of the key<br>
>> problems in 3D printing. Material Stability. He has<br>
>> injection-molded ABS (and soon PLA) sticks that are toothed. It<br>
>> allows them to be fed in a steady, controlled, and predictable manner.<br>
>><br>
>> The prints are very clean, and blob-free. I noticed he was using<br>
>> netfabb to slice the models at the event.<br>
>><br>
>> It's a nice "click-and-go" machine.<br>
>><br>
>> -M<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Glen Jarvis <<a href="mailto:glen.r.jarvis@gmail.com">glen.r.jarvis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>> I saw a link from ThinkGeek to this and thought I'd share since so many open<br>
>>> hardware/open source guys do 3d printing at Noisebridge. This one isn't open<br>
>>> source (that I can tell), but you still may find it's existence interesting:<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://www.fabbster.com/" target="_blank">http://www.fabbster.com/</a><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> Gen<br>
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>>> triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, at least fails while<br>
>>> daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid<br>
>>> souls who know neither victory nor defeat."<br>
>>><br>
>>> -- President Theodore Roosevelt<br>
>>> Speech at the Sorbonne<br>
>>> April 23, 1910<br>
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