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The FlashForge will do a little bit more right out of the box but the PrintrBot might be a better printer in terms of quality and moddability. Both, I’m sure, will have plenty of weird quirks. I have a Simple Metal, I’ve been printing with it pretty much every day for the past few months and haven’…
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As the other enthusiastic roommate and as somebody who has built a 3d printer before I’m inclined to stay away from build-your-own designs. The printer I built (about 4 years ago) was a RepRap Rapman printer and we had a lot of problems with it. After assembling it we were constantly fiddling with b…
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I don’t know anything about the Flashforge so I wouldn’t be a balanced opinion, but I have a heavily modified Printrbot Metal Plus and it’s been fantastic. As both systems (the Simple and the Plus) use an inductive sensor to level the bed they are capable of auto-levelling and saving you a lot of ti…
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I have the printrbot simple makers (which is now discontinued but can be found on amazon) and printrbot is a great company, but if you are all elactrical engineers, I think you should build your own reprap model.
