"Hey, after being acquired by an indifferent corporate overlord and destroying the quality of our products through aggressive cost-cutting, nobody's buying our shit!"
It's not entirely surprising. Makerbot has never been an amazing value, and as of the last few years, they've only decreased in quality and increased prices. Oh well. Good thing plenty of other players are finally entering the market to replace them (hopefully for good!).
FormLabs if you have the cash and don't care too much about the strength of your parts; their laser/light resin system is amazingly accurate. Otherwise, you're often best served by buying a cheap-ish commodity printer (the one from Monoprice is surprisingly pretty good) and repairing or replacing it (to the tune of 400-500 dollars for a replacement). Unless you need both strength and super high print quality, the cheap printers are getting to be plenty good enough these days.
3d printer bubble continuing to slowly convert itself into a large pile of plastic spaghetti.
There are still some people who haven't heard that they aren't terribly useful in the end, unless you are the kind of people who like to make things, tinker, etc and have a vague idea of making prototypes and so on.
Once the normal human has printed his third Yoda's head the interests vanes pretty quickly...
Disclaimer: I built a few printers myself, worked for 3DS and spent man-months staring at plastic spaghetti.
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 44.4 ms ] threadHey, at least they made up for it by backing out of their open IP promises!
There are still some people who haven't heard that they aren't terribly useful in the end, unless you are the kind of people who like to make things, tinker, etc and have a vague idea of making prototypes and so on.
Once the normal human has printed his third Yoda's head the interests vanes pretty quickly...
Disclaimer: I built a few printers myself, worked for 3DS and spent man-months staring at plastic spaghetti.