It's handy having a printer handy to design a printer, but also starting from a known place and the ability to quickly try new things will really speed your design along for little expense.Quote
Fede3D
So I guess to start with a conventional delta, and once I can print my custom parts in 3d, I can begin to experience something new without wasting too much money.
I priced a few parts out when designing the Griffin OS and what cost $2 and an hour on my Rostock, would have taken weeks and several hundred dollars from a place like Shapeways. By the time I was happy with the printer I had burned through A LOT of plastic. If I was outsourcing it, it would take years and tens of thousands of dollars. They wanted $300 per frame connector in plastic and $800 in aluminum for what I was doing for $2.
It's a lot easier to tolerate a mistake at $2 and an hour of your time than it is at $300 and a few weeks.
