Does it make sense to 3D print these parts rather than injection-mould them?
The fact that you can repair your printer by using your printer is a big selling point imho.
Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
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Re: Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
#132I'm glad that prusa has stayed true to his open hardware pledge all these years, while continuing to push the reprap ideals. Everybody is complaining about the price, but c'mon this thing is designed printed and assembled in Prague, the EU. It creates local jobs for people with fair wages, social security and good quality of life, we should strive to have more of our stuff produced in the west. Happy to see him desig…
Why so many people need 3d printer?
Then people are suggesting to buy them from already rich/prosperous nations?
Well, let me bite this - you guys don't need 3d printer to scratch your itch. Try to do with less resources which results in less energy/resources consumed.
Meanwhile, people in developing countries barely have woodworking or other power tools.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
> While it is something Reddit endlessly complains about (despite having no software engineering experience) While I agree Reddit's obsession with weird technical details is annoying, this is a pretty arrogant position. I've written motion control code for both 8-bit and 32-bit designs, and the difference is bigger than "read a string and pulse an IO a few times". The Atmega has been outdated for the past 10 years, t…
Sure, but now they are a small company that has to maintain two separate codebases. Even big companies like Google can't keep their Android and iOS apps at feature parity, so something has to give and it's the early adopters with old hardware that is just not going to get any new features. Or they are going to have twice the software engineering overhead. I get why you would start from scratch with an M4. I don't get…
> small company
iirc they have well over 200 employees at this point.
Re: Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
#134The mini is neat, but I'm more excited about the CoreXY based XL. I love my MK3, which I've upgraded to the MMU MK3S, but have had a bunch of projects where a larger printing area would be desirable (I print a lot of board game organizers, to reduce shelf space usage, speed up set up/tear down, improve playing ability during the game, etc., so usually this means 3-6 distinct sets of prints on the MK3S). I have a good…
Can't you avoid the fumes of ABS using ASA? I thought that ASA it's same to print without enclosure.
Re: Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
#135I'm glad that prusa has stayed true to his open hardware pledge all these years, while continuing to push the reprap ideals. Everybody is complaining about the price, but c'mon this thing is designed printed and assembled in Prague, the EU. It creates local jobs for people with fair wages, social security and good quality of life, we should strive to have more of our stuff produced in the west. Happy to see him desig…
The price seems fine to me. This is going to print a lot of useful parts for people and comes with great software for both your computer and the printer that you can hack and modify. If this is anything like my i3, then it's going to have high quality parts (Noctua fans!) and come in kit form to let you assemble it yourself so you know where everything is if something breaks and you need to repair it. I am surprised…
> come in kit form to let you assemble it yourself so you know where everything is if something breaks and you need to repair it
In the release they say that it will come in 3 pieces that you put together, not a full from-scratch kit
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I posted a few comments here without actually watching their marketing video, and didn't realize it had those two things. Upgrading to get those features seems like a good idea, to compete with the cheaper models. I don't think I would have engineered a new board and control stack just to get a web interface and a screen. Their last model (the i3 MK3S) has headers to accept a Pi Zero, and that seems like a good…
> I just want a USB serial port that accepts gcode. I have plenty of computers with much better screens (and SSL stacks) around for doing something more powerful ;) That's fair, but then you've added an extra processor which adds a lot of cost. I don't want to tie up a full computer and the associated space just to run my printer. Many people don't have a spare computer they can dedicate to printing either.
I've built a ton of systems and they almost always end up being a variant of "arduino running GRBL" combined with "some sort of 'real computer' running Linux". For example, my MK3 is driven by a Raspberry Pi 3 running Octoprint. It's basically an appliance.
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#137Re: Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
#138Does it make sense to 3D print these parts rather than injection-mould them?
One of the ways Prusa gets the quality they have is that they run a massive print-farm of their own printers to print the parts so they get to see all the issues up close. Printing the parts also makes them upgradeable and home-fixable for end-users.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
I print a lot of stuff around the house with a toddler. I printed guards to prevent him from turning on the oven, a insert for the piano that prevents him from pressing the auto play demo, a shim to get a drawer to close more smoothly, a shampoo caddy that hooks around our shower stall, a storage system for small hardware, a set of clips for the computer cords to keep them organized, a doohickey to strip leaves off o…
Ha, I thought I was being novel pointing out how convenient it was for solving the myriad problems that come with parenthood. I printed a bunch of car logos for my vehicle-obsessed kid to stare at, name, and futz with during diaper changing time and it has figuratively paid for itself in terms of mitigating piddling power struggles. Plus I cannot express the collective relief my spouse and I felt when I was able to r…
I forgot that! Once he started to recognize his name I printed several toys with his name on them. Like, a dinosaur off thingiverse with “Steve” in raised letters on his belly.
Re: Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer
#140The mini is neat, but I'm more excited about the CoreXY based XL. I love my MK3, which I've upgraded to the MMU MK3S, but have had a bunch of projects where a larger printing area would be desirable (I print a lot of board game organizers, to reduce shelf space usage, speed up set up/tear down, improve playing ability during the game, etc., so usually this means 3-6 distinct sets of prints on the MK3S). I have a good…
Can't you avoid the fumes of ABS using ASA? I thought that ASA it's same to print without enclosure.
There's no FDM filament that you should be breathing around while printing, even regular old PLA, PETG, etc. ASA is about as bad as ABS is though, from my understanding.