My school's CS department just invested in a MakerBot Replicator(not sure if 2, or newest one) for a robotics class that just started this semester. So while I

My school's CS department just invested in a MakerBot Replicator(not sure if 2, or newest one) for a robotics class that just started this semester. So while I don't own it myself, I have some experience with it. For those curious we are building the InMoov robot(http://www.inmoov.fr/ http://www.inmoov.fr/). We have had a few issues such as air printing, the software printing rafts but then printing the object off the actual raft, and prints that get to 99% and then just completely fuck up. These issue's should be expected hurdles for a hobbyist, but it shows that there is still plenty of work to do until 3D printers are consumer ready. With that said I am still incredibly impressed with the printer and the actual prints. The detail in the finished prints surprises me every time. Also the few support tickets we have had to submit seemed to have been handled pretty quickly by the makerbot team.