Well the good news is, South West Florida’s lidraries are getting 3d printers. The bad news is, their going to be MakerBots.
Hopefully a lot of young enthusiasts will be able to print parts for their own Open Source printers using those Makerbots – as long as the librarians are given a crash-course on Smart Extruder™ maintenance, that is.
Why don’t you like makerbot?
I’ll take a stab at answering that. When you buy a $100 Hp printer you expect it to print like a $100 printer so when it prints for 5 years and then bombs out you’re well it was only a $100 printer. Now when you spend $3000 on printer you expect atleast as much from it, so when you see endless reports of printheads failing one month in printbeds at various angles etc you need to think what’s costing $3000.
Also google “Takerbot” and check out the patents fiasco.
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It will be interesting who will be running it, where will it be located (they don’t really have a non-library space for it and hope they know it’s a little noisy). Will they charge for the service? I’ll let you know when I find something out.
I think the thinking is something like a library of objects ie thingyverse is the future.
Our company has a Takerbot and it failed in 7 months.
We emailed for support and got a wall of text telling us to take apart our printer to relieve strain on the extruded wire and tighten up some other wires
We’ll be getting a different printer in the future…
By Southwest Florida where exactly do you mean? I’m in Cape Coral
@Eddie_Krassenstein Naples, FL here.