Get a glimpse of the easiest 3D printer in the World
http://airwolf3d.com/2015/08/14/easiest-3d-printer-in-the-world/
the valentina, 17 year old, picture look like if it was valentina’s mother …
It’s a pretty printer. But as for easiest it a rather bold claim because slice, copy to sd stick it in the printer and hit go after loading filament seems pretty close to how I do it already.
Beautiful! Great work.
If you have to slice the model, then it’s already harder to use than the Polar 3D printer. Just upload the STL file to the printer’s wev interface or the cloud platform and hit print. It does the slicing onboard automatically.
Other software platforms for Cartesian bots do this as well. As will our new software. If the polar bot mentioned has this ease of use in place, then I tip my hat! UX is the next frontier for fdm
Polars stuff is pretty slick. I was next to their booth at reprapfest. He’s a sharp guy too. You guys would get along great @Brook_Drumm
So now it’s not even the easiest printer in this post. Maybe go with stunning new design easier to use. My point is and I get that it will change, but if you’re using a 3D printer there’s a good chance you’ve figured out cad so it probably safe to assume your iq is in triple digits. Am I just cynical when I see a bold claim like this I can’t help thinking you’re over promising and probably tell people your printer can print anything. I kinda feel like a dick being down on this printer and maybe were missing something. Hehe, I just thought of it, all in gloss white like that it may just be missing an apple logo, then it will not only be the easiest, it will be the easiest because all your designs will have to be bought via the istore and downloaded directly to it.
as long as a 3d printer don’t do mind reading + power&feed it self it is not the easyest 
I didn’t know it required sneaker net to print. I disagree that an sd card being involved is easier. Printrbot’s new software is not requiring an ad card. Instead, we are using a required Chrome browser app to login to the server, then it opens the web interface- the host software running in the cloud- in your default browser. Even a phone or tablet, since the chrome app just connects the printer to the cloud. The chrome app isn’t the end game… We will eventually develop hardware (electronics) to just phone home to the cloud automatically and open a connection to allow a phone or any browser to login and operate the printer - no need to have a chrome app handle the connection through a serial port via a usb cable connected to an online computer. When we get THERE, we hope to claim we have the easiest printer to use… Select a model, hit print.
Right now, we disable automatic printing, you can enable that, but we want you to choose that since there are potential risks to starting a print when not in the room with the printer. It also means a default printer must be selected and you may have more than one, like a bot farm or something. This system will allow non-Printrbot printers, btw, so we aren’t closing it down. We obviously will develop it to work most easily w our printers.
One interesting approach to the model repository problem could be a browser add on to recognize any stl file that is being downloaded from anywhere to be shuttled over to the cloud service and cue it up. On an iOS, it could be a headless app that allows you to select our service and move the file. That would be cool.
A lot of this is up in the air in the last paragraph.
Brook
@Brook_Drumm
my printerbot simple all metal never printed something
it didn’t work while bought on printerbot site …
anyway with wath you write of next models you can be sure i’ll never buy again your products : some of my projects are to dangerous to share with gouvernments or else peoples that have full read access to your cloud (or else cloud)
good luck with your cloud view …
@Brook_Drumm , the only other printer I have support for in our cloud platform at the moment is my Printerbot Metal Simple… Done by adding a raspberry pi 2 and our software. 
We should hook up sometime soon so we can work together on getting everybody supported on it. (We designed it for the classroom, which was why we focused on ease of use.)
By the way, we already do just what you mentioned, but we don’t need A Chrome app… The printer talks via local or cloud APIs to the web browser. So any device that has a web browser can access the printer and print any STL. A lot of Schools have complex security requirements, so some don’t allow Chrome extensions, or simply don’t have devices to support them (like iPad environments) and we decided to pick a non specific platform for that very reason.
@William_Steele
complex security + web = illusion
Obviously, you don’t understand the complexities involved in developing a product that meets all the requirements of those environments. You can, most definitely, build a secure environment and still allow web access. The definition of security in a lot of cases isn’t securing to the government level top secret stuff, but it is secure in preventing unauthorized equipment from accessing resources on the local network, or preventing kids from accessing unapproved web sites, for example. We build a product… If we want to sell it to our target customer, then we have to meet their requirements of security. Our system was designed, and built to meet their definition, which it does.
@William_Steele
i didn’t wrote that your products are not ok for the clients view
i call illusion what is an illusion.
My point is security isn’t an illusion… it’s simply a choice between restricted access and ease of use… the schools decide what they consider secure… it’s no illusion, it is what it is. You could make the most secure device in the world but no one would be able to use it… kind of like locking a computer away in a closet and leaving it powered off… very secure, but not very usable. Open the door, give it power, and now it is less secure but easier to access. It’s always a balance.
@William_Steele
this kind of arg you use are business-man one
for me even circles are illusions
we can see them
there are math laws for circles
anyway take a good microscope and look at a circle : it does not exist
@William_Steele when you say you can talk to the printer with a web app in a browser, how is the computer getting the file? Don’t you have to have an installed app or a cable talking w serial port somehow? Chrome is the only browser I know of that talks to serial. Perhaps your electronics talks directly to the web?
Brook
@Brook_Drumm Yep, we have the Raspberry Pi 2 on board the printer… it fetches the print queue items as well as allows the control signals from the cloud. The local pages (running off of a web server on the RP2) emulate that same functionality. We also do a live transform (from cart to polar) for any gcode being passed through the USB port as well, so any 3rd party software can be used the same way.