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> It's not an understatement to say that he has been not-quite-single-handedly carrying the hardware side of the enthusiast/cottage-industry FDM market for wel
by cowl 4y ago
> It's not an understatement to say that he has been not-quite-single-handedly carrying the hardware side of the enthusiast/cottage-industry FDM market for well over a decade
In fact it's not un understatement, it's plainly a false statement.
Nothing of Prusa is an original Idea, everything has come from the community and they have refined and calibrated it.
The differentiating factor Prusa Had was a pre-calibrated Printer and more quality control on the parts. If you rigtly say that the refinement is the important part, there's plenty of refinement on various things also on the "clones"
- blkhawk 4y agoI would argue that the genius in the prusa printer is not directly that its calibrated - its in little details that become obvious once you have experience them during upgrades of your own printer. Say the magnetic bed and the elimination of bed springs. Or where exactly stepper motors are placed. Details of cooling fan ducting. If you add good calibration to that you end up with a very well working printer. this means that if you copy it exactly the printer will work well even with inferior parts. So companies that are cheap and innovate are punished and do not know why exactly.