Mmmm...
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To update this thread, there is a guy at dumsum labs-hackjam hk that is selling a locally made 3d printer for $6k
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I ordered a MakiBox, made by a gwailo run startup in Kwai Chung. It was less than HK$2000 from memory, should be here in a moth or two as they have a huge backlog and seem to assemble them slowly...
http://makibox.com/
Wow thats cheap!!!
I look at them since some time. Their schedule was shipping the first 100 in March ........ 2012 ...
http://makibox.com/blogpost/items/hot-plastic-action
....now it's 2014 - and they started to ship only recently. Now they shipped about 400 and I estimate that their backlog is about 2000. That should keep them busy till maybe March/April (2014, I hope).
When they run out of old orders then I will order one.
I'm curious- what would you guys intend to make with these things? Recently the only thing I've wanted which would be 3D printed is a fairly specialised battery holder. Most retail ones for the battery sizes that I use (18650 lithiums) are really shoddy.
I did find a good design on Thingverse and contacted a HK-based company that does prints for consumers, but they never got back to me. So I'm just going to fall back to duct tape, sugru and soldering!
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As an aside, the best gadget in this class of thing that I have been looking for was handmade, not 3D printed and not mass produced. It was made by a single enthusiast who poured resin into silicone molds.
They were slow to make (not injection molded) but scalable (i.e. he'd just make more molds) so faster than 3D printing, relatively inexpensive (cheaper than getting a 3D printing company to make) and incredibly good quality.
I'm just not sold on the 3D printing idea still... the guy made this using cardboard, foam, an xacto knife and silicone and it's more effective and flexible than any design I've found on Thingverse.
3D printing is an interesting concept, but I think it's got a loooong way to go before it becomes more than an interesting geek concept for most people.
Last edited by jgl; 14-01-2014 at 12:32 PM.