Hope that the Seeed studio folks take note. They might manage to pull it all off, for much less. 3D printing of anything serious, is still relatively expensive. The hobby-grade DIY 3D-printers usually find it hard to achieve the finish and something that needs to have extremely smooth surface/edges.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Bill Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > -- regards, Banibrata http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta http://twitter.com/edgeliving -- 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.
