Not sure if this was posted before, so sorry if it was. This ‘distruptive’ technology must be constrained and profit maximized!
gotta love printable ceramics!
“With their assets, IP, and brand quality protected, the printer market can then shift a sizeable portion of revenue from the sale of the printer to sale of the disposable cartridges.” So you can rip-off people with over priced plastic.
Razors and blades. This is exactly why we need to push for open source machines, or the very least for compatibility with open standards.
Anything that involves DRM or similar I will stay away. That is why I bought a @Printrbot Simple maker. You have 100% freedom and the backing of @Brook_Drumm on top of it.
Live free and prosper !
Right, because what I want as a hobbyist is to have the materials I pay for quadruple in price.
That’s why I built my first printer. I realised that if I waited for a commercial printer it would have some DRM builtin stopping me from printing something I might want to print or only print specific formats as we now see with makerbot models like hello kitty for $7 That will only print on a makerbot.
Their example is terrible. The Cube 3D isn’t very good, it offers very little material for the money, and the machine isn’t any cheaper to justify such a system. 3D System’s sales people pretend the material is super high quality, but it’s not magic. The filament plastic they use isn’t a custom formula. in all, this is generally terrible, including the lock-in.
I read it as NOT learning the lesson. It first goes to discuss Disruptive Technology, then ignore it to fall back to OLD non-disruptive ‘lets just DRM it’. When the disruption comes, such thinking will see failure of the old school thinking…
I like that I CAN make a printer that’s equal to (or better than) a closed source alternative. It was a really good challenge, and it’ll print pretty much anything I want 1.75mm in diameter.
It’s made me a better FFF user as well as the experience allows me to look at a problem and know what the issue is, for the most part.
@Mike_Miller Like you I build my own machines, #1 reason, I can. and I do not pay royalties to anyone. I have been on the ride for 3 years now, and I will not buy anyone’s machine if I can build one myself.
@Chris_Bigpaws_Chambe I’ve only been in it for about 2 years myself. I still have yet to see a commercial machine that can exceed the capabilities of my machine save build volume. The whole reason that I got excited about and started with the hobby is because of the open source community. Good on companies who are out to make a profit, I would if I had the resources, but trying to DRM everything that was built on open source goes against everything it stands for. If you want to lock it down, write your own code, create a whole new format, but don’t try and hijack what was made to be had by all.