It's really hard to see how these guys ever expected this to work.

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I am really wondering how Hang Printer could be built for 29$ without beeing complete trash…

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@George_Novtekov probably by using salvaged parts.

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@JERRY_NAIDOO I’m totally in favour of the spirit of co-operation and invention, but here we’ve got something that’s not a new idea, is hugely overpriced, and doesn’t work. It’s not a new concept that needs help moving forward - filament extruders already exist and are being developed and sold elsewhere for less than half the price, and those ones (apparently) work.

This product is like releasing a new 3D FDM printer to the market at $3000 that can’t print anything, when you can buy a Prusa i3 for $900. That’s not innovation.

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But isn’t this how early 3D printers were? And look how far things have come.

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@Andrew_E if we were looking at the first such product sub $1000 then I might agree with you, but it’s not, there are other, far better extruders out there that actually work and are actually cheaper, quite a lot cheaper in some cases.

This is not an “innovative” step forward, not a first of its kind, it does (or is supposed to do) something that can already be done, and better, by other products that have been on the market for some years.