So this landed in out shop today. It was brought to us but
someone who is essentially designing an number of aftermarket upgrades for
these makerbot2s and wants Chris’s help in implementing them. It the process we
get to use this makerbot 2 with express condition that we use it a lot. In fact
we need to really torture test it so that we can find the areas that need to be
improved. Just an initial look at the machine and it’s easy to see areas and
parts that are marginally designed at best and really questionable in some
cases. In a way I’m surprised the machine “prints” as well as it does
considering how armature the overall design is. And that, said it really does
print fairly well for a $2000 3D printer. I don’t have a good basis for comparison
as even thou I’ve seen a number of these 3D maker level machines I have never
had a real chance till now to compare them to the real commercial rapid
prototype machine made by companies like Z-Corp and Stratsys. Let’s see what
this thing can do…
