Well, I've had some disappointing experiences with this. Surprising! It turns out that the rover parts are very difficult for a consumer-grade desktop 3D print to make. Two different people have tried to print them and failed to make most of the components. Of the ones that were printed, there is a large amount of "support material" all over the parts that has to be removed by hand - cutting, filing, and sanding off the excess plastic. The print process (assuming it could be accomplished) would be very lengthy, at least 20 hours.
There are online printing businesses that will make things like this if you upload the design files. Shapeways is one of them, I uploaded the files (there are about 15 parts) and it would cost about $200 to have them all printed there. Its more than I can justify for a robot the size of two hands. You can buy metal parts to make something similar for around $60. So I think I'll hold off on it for now. Maybe prices will come down or printers will improve in a few months. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ioio-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ioio-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
