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MakerBot lays off 30% of its staff as company’s scope narrows
- astrodust 10y ago"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!"
- overcast 10y agoBut it's been an incredible journey!
- nameless912 10y agoIt'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!).
- Snowdax 10y agoI've not been paying attention to 3D printing for quite a while now. Which companies are ruling the roost of desktop 3D printing these days?
- nameless912 10y agoFormLabs 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.
- irascible 10y agoYou can get a monoprice mini for 200 bucks. I've bought 3 of them so far and they are a great value for the money.
- tomcam 10y ago> they've only decreased in quality and increased prices. Hey, at least they made up for it by backing out of their open IP promises!
- phmagic 10y agoGood thing they sold to stratasys when they did.
- buserror 10y ago3d 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.
- LastZactionHero 10y agoHeh, great metaphor choice.