What does everyone think of my sweet new C-Bot core-xy build? Small is the new big, this thing should clock in with a 2" build platform!
Joking of course, I’m just printing new parts for my existing bot, and though I’d mock them up with the cuttoffs from my last build 
It would be an even stiffer DICE haha
@Griffin_Paquette : yah, that thing looks built like a tank 
Hey, if you had precise movement for a mini-CNC mill or mini 3D printer, small could be quite good. Joke or not, it could be good to follow through. Precision movement could make the production of light frequency shifting filters a reality. Maybe even optical computing or holographs or LCD screen production.
Great enjoy it
Looks very stable …
@Eric_Pavey I’d be worried about a 2" build platform and possible backlash. Drop it down to 1" or maybe just 0.5" to get real stability 
@Jon_Gritton : I think you’re right, I should definitely aim smaller
I normally despise plastic corner brackets, but that looks reasonably stout
@Ryan_Carlyle I was thinking the same. Especially if the corner brackets have a solid layer every X layers. 80 for X would put it at around one solid layer every inch for me. I think that should be great for making stuff strong.
FYI, those corner bracket clocked in around 250g of material, each. Basically a whole spool for all 4. Strong, like bull.
@Eric_Pavey Any particular reason aside from RepRap sensibilities to print the corners? Sounds like aluminum brackets would cost and weigh about the same.
@Ryan_Carlyle : I currently have aluminum brackets on my bot: but my printer is so tall (z build height around 21", 12" on xy), I feel something like this could be better. Not to mention, and the main reason I printed them: They help self-square the whole thing. The tolerances are so tight, there’s no slop in any of it, so you just slide everything in place, bolt it up, and technically, a whole bunch of the squaring-pain I’ve gone though in the past is just gone. All just theory of course, I’ll find out if that’s true once I take the current machine apart, and reassemble it with all this new stuff.
Worth following up I finally got the whole printer re-assembled with these prints and others. Feels like a tank now. Those new lower bulky brackets really help. But they don’t look nearly as big on a 3’ tall printer 
http://www.akeric.com/blog/?p=4266
