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smitty 4 months, 1 week ago.
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@smitty - no, not really. First you need to wait for two full years before having the whole lot, secondly you are paying for printer which is going to have at least 3 years old design by time you put it together. And last thing is that you’re not paying for the printer only, you are paying for magazine you don’t know anything about. If magazine turns out to be fine - perfect, but if bit simplistic and not to your taste - waste of money, especially you can’t just stop half way through.
Generally, those magazines do not provide best value for money…
Instead of getting magazine - why not picking some of open source printers, print out plastic parts, source/buy metal parts, get electronics on e-bay or alike, learn how to put all together for, probably, half the money and maybe 50% more time (your time) and in 3 to 6 months lapsed time (at least from my perspective of using spare time). But knowledge you are going to get doing so is going to be even more valuable as you would be forced to learn more and about ‘real’ stuff.
And for rest of money buy ‘proper’ magazine which you can stop reading if you don’t have enough time(*), you don’t like or just don’t find enough articles that would interest you.
Last two paragraphs are what I would do - especially if I didn’t have following projects on my ‘stack': RPi case to finish, i2c servo controller to improve and find someone to produce, 8 legged spider(?!) to design, use previously mentioned case + i2c servo driver to physically make and as separate task to play with software (easily 2-3 months worth of spare time just playing with software); design biped robot with at least 3 servos per leg and 4 per arm and then program that one (another year full of fun), finally print and make FPV quad(hexa?)-copter, make automatic reel winder for Robox reels, make and deploy a game to IOS/Android app stores, … as you can see only these few are enough to keep me busy until retirement. That’s why Robox was such a good option as I didn’t have to spend those 3-6 months to build myself a printer from scratch…
(*) I had a year of New Scientist subscription, and I really like reading it… but one issue per week was just too much for me! I just couldn’t find time to do so!
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