Well, he is taking a different approach to material feeding. It remains to be seen if its actually any better. I spent some time talking with him too, and it sounds like he's pretty far from actually selling the things. Still, it was a nice design. I just don't know if the proprietary filament will be helpful. A good material feed mechanism works just fine on round filament.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 7:42 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">
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>
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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>
> --<br>
> "It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong<br>
> man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The<br>
> credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred<br>
> by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short<br>
> again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and<br>
> spends himself in a worthy cause; Who, at the best, knows in the end the<br>
> 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>
><br>
><br>
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