xyzprinter

[Dan Hockey]

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/toys-games-da-vinci-jr-10-3d-printer/29038403?ean=4715872745510

vs

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/toys-games-xyzprinting-da-vinci-jr-10-wifi-3d-printer/29341244?ean=4715872746821

to me these look like the thing but one has wifi. the only reason why I was looking is I could get 20% off with my membership this morning.

[Ray Scheufler]

I would still avoid it.  You are locked into their filament.

Ray Scheufler

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[Mike Longnecker]

+1 to what Ray said. Also what I've seen of their print quality and construction quality, not that great.

Mike Longnecker

[Dan Hockey]

Thanks, good thing I asked.

[Brad Freese]

For what it's worth, Xerocraft in Tucson has a Da Vinci printer and they figured out how to hack the cartridges so you can refill them.  I'm not advocating you get the printer though, I don't recall the print quality being all that better than the Replicator clone we had.

If anyone needs to hack the cartridges I could put you in touch with the person who did it in Tucson.

[Ray Scheufler]

I think you are referring to the older Da Vinci that has chips in the cartridges.  It looks like this model uses spools that have NFC / RFID chips.  From my cursory google search there hasn't been much luck in breaking the NFC / RFID scheme.

Ray Scheufler

[beernutz]

Here is a thread where they are working on cracking the rfid scheme.

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/11108/davinci-junior-cartridge-reset/