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Solidus Labs
It is going to be open source. I will release the files when I am confident that the design is solid. Being able to print the printer is great if you have access to a printer. But since not everyone has access to a printer I wanted to use crowd funding to give some economies of scale benefit. Since the majority of the parts are printed, scaling with printing is not easily feasible and would require a fleet of printers. Casting the parts is kind of the middle ground where printing is prototyping and injection molding is long run manufacturing. Sure there are pro's and con's over Pb Jr. and the long list of cartesian bots and delta bots but my goal was to build a printer that was reasonably affordable, easy to produce, and easy to assemble. The assembly time should be somewhere from 1-2 hours. I think a great ancillary benefit is the printer is it is a real life application of trigonometry which fits in with the typical consumers of 3d printers, educators and inventors.
Jon - Solidus Labs
Excellent! I would be interested in a kit of all parts, with assembly instructions. I probably wouldn't buy the 3D printed parts, since I could print them, but if they came as part of a full kit, then I would likely be willing to buy them just for convenience.