I saw this at Sam’s Club yesterday.
I’m just afraid the poor reliability and support will sour people to the idea.
Well they are going to have to spend the money some where. Most people who would entertain the idea of buying these will Google. So do your part and let the world know your experience with your 3d printers.
poor sucker who buys this and thinks it is plug and play… they’ll be in for a Big surprise…
I seriously doubt that anyone can hit those price points with a turn-key 3D printer, any time in the near future.
I don’t think it is only about the price. It is just too complicated for most people and CAD in 3D even more… Home 3Dprinters just aren’t 1-click print like the pro machines.
The public perception was pushed out of whack a couple years back with the media, and now that “oh cool it’s 3d printed” attitude is now “ehh can’t it be better?” The open source movement was great an all, but now you have 250+ builders selling retail and several a month trying to push out the next kickstarter Affordable 3D Printer.
Guess what, if you want push button results the reality is like anything else if you wanted one worth a damn, it was going to cost you. I hear it everyday.
Guys, sssh. I’m trying to watch The LEGO
Movie.
Turnkey sub-$500 machines are going to be proprietary locked material machines. The DaVinci is just the beginning. Lower priced machines will mean higher priced locked material, and future gen machines will be increasingly harder to hack.
that is why i got my home machine because you can just put in any filament you want. pro machines are limited to very small selection of material or color for 10x the price… but the certainty that it always works
Jordi… two points… 1) PLA Plastic is biodegradable… and ABS is recyclable. and 2) Why print uses less things instead of useful things?
@Jordi_Posthumus http://enablingthefuture.org - nuff said
@ray_whitfield It’s not so cheap to make product in China these days. For North America Mexico can be a better bet for assembled product.
The entry level machines are likely to be proprietary not necessarily because they don’t want to open them but because the technology and process for making large volume low cost items doesn’t lend itself well to DIY projects. It’s porcesses like stamping, injection molding, low cost stripped down electronics.