I'm looking to purchase a 3D printer with my tax return, around Jan-Feb. My goals are as follows:
expected budget is $500-$1,000, hopefully closer to the $500 mark.
I'd like to be able to print something 16" long, 8" tall.
I'm not seeing anything that satisfies both of those, so the second one is least important.
I've never even seen a 3D printer, so I don't know what I'm looking at when I look at what's on the market. Seems like, since the majority of the affordable kits are open source, I am seeing a lot of radically different variants of something, all going by the same name. So if you're going to provide a recommendation, please provide a link; otherwise we might be talking about two totally different things.
Right now, this is the one I've got my eye on. What do you think? Good? no? Is this type of printer capable of printing overhead? What I mean is, for example, if I wanted to print a hollow sphere or a pipe, can it do that? what would support the inside while you print "up-and-over?"
expected budget is $500-$1,000, hopefully closer to the $500 mark.
I'd like to be able to print something 16" long, 8" tall.
I'm not seeing anything that satisfies both of those, so the second one is least important.
I've never even seen a 3D printer, so I don't know what I'm looking at when I look at what's on the market. Seems like, since the majority of the affordable kits are open source, I am seeing a lot of radically different variants of something, all going by the same name. So if you're going to provide a recommendation, please provide a link; otherwise we might be talking about two totally different things.
Right now, this is the one I've got my eye on. What do you think? Good? no? Is this type of printer capable of printing overhead? What I mean is, for example, if I wanted to print a hollow sphere or a pipe, can it do that? what would support the inside while you print "up-and-over?"