This is a sad day, indeed... In retrospect, the cloud-based printing model seems ill-advised.

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This is a sad day, indeed…

In retrospect, the cloud-based printing model seems ill-advised.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/18/3d-printing-company-new-matter-is-shutting-down-this-month/

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I definitely think it’s ill advised when it’s a company making them for their own printers. That’s why I like BotQueue being open source and not required for the printers to work. Even when I failed to update it for like a year, people could still run their printers.

Still, I do read this as a cautionary tale for myself and others pursuing cloud backed printing functionality.

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Absolutely. If it’s a main selling point of a provider, it’s also its main weakness. An open framework works much better here, both in being less competitive as a solution and in not relying on a single provider.

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Cloud or not, the print quality was terrible on those. Pretty machines but awful surface quality.

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I never could see the rack and pinion system being good. Or at the very least, the wear and tear would break it constantly.

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As an IT guy the very thought of connecting something that could catch fire in my house to the internet scares the heck out of me. Giving a third party with unknown security control compounds that.

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@Doug_Rector I find that to be more of an issue with the immaturity of the product regarding the fire hazard. I’m not sure how to address the security concern as much though.