3D printers in Staples

[arikb]

Looks like the printers hit the mainstream... Now it's not cool to own a 3D printer any more :)

http://www.staples.com/Cube-3D-Printers/product_SS2044291#desc_content

-- Arik

[Julian Sortland]

Especially when there is a little box which allows the selection of a rather vomitous P-nk,,,

Glow-in-the-dark and purple ABS sounds pretty cool.  But $50 for a roll of ABS of unspecified length or cross section is probably very expensive?

J.  :)

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[Angus Deveson]

From what I've heard - around 5X the cost of genuine UP OEM filament per gram.

[Kris]

Do you think they've gone the way of bubble jets? Subsidize the cost of the hardware with the consumables?
Or just greedy?

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[Matt Cabanag]

Man, that Cube is just such a bimbo, consumerist piece of crap. Go to the website, they try to monetise you every step of the way. $20 for shitty designs that gets shared on Thingieverse! The printer isn't even that great quality. 

[Arik Baratz]

On 7 May 2013 17:49, Matt Cabanag <matt.c...@gmail.com> wrote:

Man, that Cube is just such a bimbo, consumerist piece of crap. Go to the website, they try to monetise you every step of the way. $20 for shitty designs that gets shared on Thingieverse! The printer isn't even that great quality. 

My point for posting it was not to say Cube is a good product or anything of the sort - it's to say that 3D printing is going mainstream, fast. When a product category has a consumerist piece of crap iteration, it has truly become mainstream.

-- Arik

[Matt Cabanag]

Haha, I suppose you can look at it that way... But let's not encourage it.

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[Julian Sortland]

And probably too small to print the lower receiver of an AR-15.

Thankfully, here (I believe) that barrels, magazines, upper receivers and the like are also regulated, unlike the US where they can be bought no-questions-asked.  There only the central component (lower receiver in the AR-15) is regulated and serial numbered.

J.

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