[Noisebridge-discuss] FYI: Commercial Version of 3D printer

[Dave Peacock]

Ooh, how did that test go?

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.

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.

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


best
dave

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Martin Bogomolni <martinbogo at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah, the printer suffered a heater failure Sunday.   I actually still
> have a couple prints from the machine from my Maker Faire 'goodie bag'
> (I tried to get all the printers to make a copy of the same thing from
> thingiverse to compare: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11682 )
>
> -M
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Gopiballava Flaherty
> <gopiballava at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > I saw the printer in Sunday afternoon, so perhaps it had been poked and
> prodded by too many people by then.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > gopi at iPad
> >
> > On Jun 10, 2012, at 20:42, Martin Bogomolni <martinbogo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I met the creator of the Fabbster at Maker Faire this year.
> >>
> >> The innovative thing about Fabbster is that he solved one of the key
> >> problems in 3D printing.   Material Stability.   He has
> >> injection-molded ABS (and soon PLA) sticks that are toothed.  It
> >> allows them to be fed in a steady, controlled, and predictable manner.
> >>
> >> The prints are very clean, and blob-free.  I noticed he was using
> >> netfabb to slice the models at the event.
> >>
> >> It's a nice "click-and-go" machine.
> >>
> >> -M
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Glen Jarvis <glen.r.jarvis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> I saw a link from ThinkGeek to this and thought I'd share since so
> many open
> >>> hardware/open source guys do 3d printing at Noisebridge. This one
> isn't open
> >>> source (that I can tell), but you still may find it's existence
> interesting:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.fabbster.com/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Gen
> >>> --
> >>> "It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the
> strong
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> The
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> marred
> >>> by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes
> short
> >>> again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
> and
> >>> spends himself in a worthy cause; Who, at the best, knows in the end
> the
> >>> triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, at least fails
> while
> >>> daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and
> timid
> >>> souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
> >>>
> >>> -- President Theodore Roosevelt
> >>>    Speech at the Sorbonne
> >>>    April 23, 1910
> >>>
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