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

[Taylor Alexander]

I've been very happy with my Ultimaker after designing a few upgrades that
I've shared. Mine isn't totally tuned but a lot of people have made
beautiful stuff with them. I mostly print useful stuff so I don't mind if
its perfectly tuned for accuracy, but its very reliable and the build
volume is great.

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Martin Bogomolni <martinbogo at gmail.com>wrote:

> Frankly, the Replicator and the Cubify printers both kicked ass on
> that particular test.   The Up! printer also did okay, but it didn't
> print at 0.1mm .. I had to print at 0.32mm to get it working.
>
> -M
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Dave Peacock <dave.peacock at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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
> >> >>> man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
> better.
> >> >>> The
> >> >>> credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face
> is
> >> >>> 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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