BIG #3DPRINTING NEWS: The MakerBot Digitizer is here. Priced at $1,400. What do you make of it? I love this quote “Expectations should be realistic. You will not be able to, for example, scan a hamburger and then eat the digital design.” HAHAHA
http://bit.ly/17Nix4L
Way too expensive!
For 1400 I would expect the quality to be better.
Even at the previously rumored $500 it seemed overpriced, $1400 is simply ludicrous. When they went closed source I lost almost all faith in Makerbot, and it looks like maybe I wasn’t overreacting.
I’m sure they’ll sell a few of these, maybe even lots and lots of them, but I will definitely not be one of the buyers.
Do we think there will be a package deal for the printer and scanner as a combo coming down the line?
Possibly. But if there is, it will also be massively overpriced and probably offer disappointing performance for that price.
I’m glad they haven’t closed it off to just MakerBot printers.
There’s a couple hundred worth of tech there. Software is worth something but I don’t really think the value is there.
I would jump at it for $300, grumble and buy it at $400, and think long and hard but probably ultimately pick one up at $500. But for nearly three times the amount I’d have to really convince myself to buy at? All I can do now is laugh.
Kinnect and hack £100 easy.
@Nigel_Dickinson The Kinect has a minimum working distance of about 50cm, so it is totally incapable of scanning small items.
I have had good luck with scanning using the David scanner software and it can be automated as well…
Unless this has some fantastic resolution, they are definitely smoking something…
Laughing at $1400 when there is more promising technology on kickstarter for less.
How much is this David scanner?
@Mike_Downey what kind of resolution do you think you’d need to justify $1400?
you can try it for free and save low-res objects… its 329 euro for a full blown license. most low res objects work fine.
http://www.david-3d.com/
Way too overpriced. And a service model for $500 for a year of if anything goes wrong??!! Stand behind your product. Even Best Buy doesn’t charge that much for Extended warranties.
Arduino to control a stepper to turn the part, webcam for pictures, multiple flashes for lighting, use Python Photogrammetry to stitch it together. This is waaaay to expensive.
http://www.arc-team.homelinux.com/arcteam/ppt.php
Also, that handheld 3d scanner is coming, and it aint 1400
Carmine 1.09 with glasses.
http://reconstructme.net/2013/03/14/reconstructme-1-2-using-carmine-1-09-high-detail/
