A free/libre approach and a great user experience don’t have to be mutually exclusive!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RzFC5FplmY
Great review as always looks like their quality continues to improve. But that 6" bed size though yuck.
Great unbiased review as always. I’m a big fan of Aleph Objects design philosophy and their open source attitude. I wish I could have afforded one of their Taz’s when I first got into printing, but the price point was significantly more than I wanted. I always encourage people to grab one of theirs to keep them innovating like on their mini.
I was about to buy one of these and waited to see what you had to say too. Everywhere I turn, I keep hearing the same message about this printer. I’m glad I’ve waited for as long as I have now. Have been wanting to get into 3D printing for a long time but was waiting on a few things to happen first. I’m sure this will eave me with high standards and expectations for the next printer (if there is another needed) after this one.
@Ryan_Hescock_Stanos I find it usually large enough for most needs, but I break out the TAZ when I need a larger part or to print multiple parts at the same time.
@Mark_Cooper I don’t know what they’re planning in regards to the Mini line, but I know that they’re working on the next version of the TAZ. http://devel.lulzbot.com is basically a list of a lot of data that they’ve open sourced.
@Thomas_Sanladerer Last time I checked, the cluster is running 150 printers, although I haven’t checked in a while. They organize the printers in pods of 9 and control them with BotQueue (my software) but I think they have a few that aren’t directly in the cluster but are still managed by BotQueue.
@Justin_Nesselrotte thanks for the link. Reading it now. I was wondering where some of the info was. Like to build your own. I’ve been thinking of building a larger platform machine once I have the mini to help me make parts for it.