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Solidus Labs
I have ordered SLA prints of all the parts which I plan on using for master to make casting molds for short run production.
How does everyone feel about crowd funding the production?
Jon – Solidus Labs
So... this is to be a commercial machine? You are not releasing the files? Or do you plan to do both?
Honestly, the best part of this machine is that you can print so much of it. The original repraps were mostly just hardware store metal held together with a few small 3D printed parts. So this concept of "repraping" really wasn't... real. for the most part. This machine is as close to something you can actually print yourself as I have ever seen. Only the electronics, motor, drive screw and some nuts and bolts required.
The traditional rep raps are "print little, hardware store much" where as this design is "print much, hardware store a little".
casting it seems... well, mabey it will just be "buy a little, hardware store a little" but then I don't really see an advantage to it over e.g. a Printrbot Jr.
Am I missing something?