Experimenting with low cost 3D printing (iansmith.is)

Thank you Ian. I just purchased one after reading your article.

I got into 3D printing a few years ago with a Select Mini. Unlike a build-it-yourself delta I had bought a few years earlier for around 5 times as much, this thing actually worked! However, whether you buy a DIY or a complete printer, you'd better anticipate repairs, maybe as often as once every few kilograms of plastic. Inappropriate provisions for flexing wires are the worst problems in my experience, particularly because you will find you need some odd and hard to obtain wiring harness to replace it, and then it'll fail in the same way next time.