Given all the growing interest in RepRap style printers, is there interest in restarting development of the Ponoko Darwin development? See it here
I am trying to talk one of the RepRap parts suppliers into offering the lasercut parts for this printer as an off the shelf purchase. I think the Ponoko Darwin still has some things going for it.
-It's honestly the pretties RepRap built, the ability to make it out of many colors makes it so unique. Say what you will the Rapman is hot little printer
-It would be the only Darwin that could be offered "off the shelf" while still completely following the GNU licence of the true RepRap.
-Would not suffer from the limitations of the screw drive like Mcwires
-It has a fully documented wiki already in place. (see the bottom of the main Ponoko site)
-Will run off any boards that can drive Makerbot or a normal Darwin.
-Given that a McWire requires $100 worth of metal, I personally would rather $200-$300 worth of lasercut parts for a REAL belt driven Reprap
-Ponoko is hard to order from (at least from me). If I could have ordered a Darwin lasercut kit, I likely wouldn't have bought a Makerbot.
Only real downside of Ponoko Darwin is it takes more screws/bolts, and the lasercut parts are easier to break.
So lets hear it, would YOU like to see a Darwin Lasercut kit available? Please comment!
I think I would like to see a Mendel Laser Cut design. Particularly as it uses less materials.
ReplyDeleteDesign it or we have what we have.
ReplyDeleteGiven the facts I would prefer access to what we have than a dream of something that noone is building. ;)