Getting the last parts for the 32 other frankenbots finished. I’m estimating right at around 1000 printing hours total once I’m done printing all the parts. It’s a crazy amount of work. Don’t know how people like @Brook_Drumm did it for all of his Kickstarter backers.
Still a couple more kilos of printing to go. This is about 2.5-3 kilos.
The $5 bill for size reference.
Great job!! You may be the youngest to build this many at one time in the world!!
The key to mass printed production is build one bot at s time, then add it to the farm. It is slow in the beginning but exponentially faster by the end. I realize it’s too late for that now 
If all 32 bots are gonna live at school, we will have Botfarm software that would make great use of all that power. It will auto queue large projects. Imagine a 32 hour project (32 parts with an hour print time) printing in about an hour! Or a 16 hour project in 30 minutes!! Or 32 students putting in one 4 hour part to the farm the night before and picking it up before school is out. Looking forward to this.
Brook
@Brook_Drumm That botfarm software… nnghh. Have a similar plan for my FB2020 as soon as I pin it down properly.
@Mark_Ellison and @Brook_Drumm thank you! We aren’t actually keeping all 32 though. Technically we have 34 but I am keeping one personally and the orange and black one is getting rebuilt in red and will be the school’s printer. We also sold a couple to other schools in the county, but because I know some students that wanted to build one but didn’t have the money to purchase one, they are getting the opportunity to build it for them.
The other students actually paid $200 for a kit that included all the printed and laser cut parts so that they will be able to take it home.
So about 30 of them are students and 4 are going elsewhere. But the reason that we don’t have a ton running is that I have to allow the kiddos to build them in class which is why I have been giving them parts in little quantities. This allows them to build it in stages and for me to stop them and help them if need be. This is the final set of printed parts that they will need in order to assemble them.
In the end though they will take them home!
@Mark_Ellison I’m super sorry about getting the files out there. Ive been making some slight revisions before I felt comfortable to release them. I’ll have them live on thingiverse in the next two hours. The guide is halfway done and on my blog which will be linked in the Thingiverse page. I’ll link the page here.
As for how much it costs, @Brook_Drumm and I are working on a kit for the new version with 8mm bearings. I’m not sure if he has any 12mm kits left but he can comment on that.
Thingiverse page is up! Check out my latest post for the link:-)
Now I’ll look at updating the Kit… Nice to have a complete design out there to utilize a bare bones kit!
@Brook_Drumm if you’d like I could send you what small additions I used to make this one?
