Now he even wants to patent the community ideas so he can sue every competitor and become even richer. Trying to get famous through wrongful practices is a sign of a sick soul imho. How "smart" an extruder indeed, when it wears out before a year of usage!
They knowingly ship unreliable hardware to you , so you get the "real-world experience" in their place. One spare ought to be enough, even with planed obsolescence that they even fail to achieve! The truck and the gears in the printer require many separate and tricky prints. Re-assemble and put them back onto the printer bed to deceive lots of buyers.
The price is not mini, but what a ridiculous printing volume ratio! Which maker, who is already working on his free time, would ever read such a page book just to get a clue on how to defend his own intellectual property that was patented by a company he trusted? Job application at Makerbot archived here : who the heck did coin the expression " invention harvesting "? Hey evil Makerbot, invention needs creativity not just stealing! Just patent your stuff, not others' ideas! By the way, you can succeed without patents e.
Elon Musk's Tesla cars and space ships are two strategies. How patents hinder innovation nowadays source: EFF here , and there for a longer explanation. Dilbert by Scott Adams, of course. So over the past several years, MakerBot has refocused on professional designers and schools, shrinking significantly in the process. For that price, MakerBot is touting hardware and software changes that make printing more precise and reliable, without requiring a lot of tinkering or the funds for a full-scale industrial printer.
In the same way that software lets designers painlessly visualize 3D objects, the Method is supposed to let designers touch them. The Method is slicker than earlier MakerBot printers. Its moving parts are neatly hidden, and prints are locked behind transparent doors, instead of sitting in an open frame. Below the printing area, two neat pop-out drawers hold spools of printing plastic.
Ironically, MakerBot made much bolder claims about those kits. MakerBot quickly started shifting away from home printing, where it was being undercut by cheap mass-market products. Several of them shut down or went bankrupt. It won the right to distribute firearm blueprints earlier this year — but then its founder Cody Wilson was charged with sexually assaulting a year-old girl, leaving its future uncertain. These 3D printers can produce customized prosthetics , which can be especially helpful in areas without many medical resources.
But under Goshen, MakerBot has explicitly aimed all its products at two places where 3D printing has proven helpful: the hardware design world, where printers are good for rapid prototyping, and the education sector, where schools use them to teach science and technology skills. But the Method incorporates features more commonly found in industrial printers, some of which are patented by Stratasys. Its build chamber is heated, so the entire print job cools at an even rate. Ideally, this means users can make tight-fitting machine parts without worrying about size variation.
MakerBot has been selling machines with multiple extruders since , for instance — so one extruder can print an object with ordinary plastic filament, and another can lay down a support scaffold that dissolves in water. This lets users produce oddly shaped objects with high precision, and MakerBot says that a very experienced user could still get good results from a cheaper Replicator.
But it promises the Method will let more casual users get those results with less effort, thanks to the high-end perks mentioned above, as well as other software and hardware improvements. The Method mostly seems aimed at designers right now.
The Replicator 2 can only print with PLA. When you consider that even the cheapest printers tend to support ABS at least, this is a bit of a disappointment. MakerBot claims that the Replicator 2 can prepare models for printing up to twenty times faster than its rivals, thanks to its Makerware program. This is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux systems, and comes with several handy options such as saving multi-part models into a single file. On the other hand, PLA is among the least expensive materials to buy.
You are limited to MakerBot filament, however. There are bulk deals on offer, though, which is something. Its price range puts it outside of the budget for most people. However, it works wonderfully and its price is reasonable enough for small-scale commercial applications. Even if you buy from a third-party, once you register the printer, you become eligible for a day support service called MakerCare.
This provides faster response times, additional support methods, and premium plans last for up to three years.
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