/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1605924

Even the expensive Stratasys FDM machines are not that great, and none of them are immune to user error like forgetting your junk on the bed and hitting Print like >>1605912 did. Pictured - the state of expensive Stratasys printers in 2011

>>1606224

J..Jigoo?

>>1516018

Man, i still remember back in 2011 on the RepRap blog reading an article about how homebuilt printers surpassed the Stratasys uPrint in print quality:

http://blog.reprap.org/2011/09/tipping-point-of-print-quality-open.html

This was Josef Prusa with his simplified "Mendel" variant, i guess you could retroactively call it the Prusa i1. I too would be damn tempted to do a teardown of that Stratasys printer - no doubt it's heavily overengineered, making the poor print quality more of a mystery. The thing cost more than 10,000 euro, the hardware itself has to be top notch. Perhaps the proprietary slicer/firmware were bad?