Thursday, September 23, 2010

Makerbot making up for its delay


Makerbot - the amazing desktop 3D printer finally arrived after 4 months of its order. Against the online claims that it takes 3 days to assemble it, it took 3 of us,( Shubham, Praneeth and me) to assemble the parts in record 8 hours. We started at 3.30 pm and the bot was up on the table at 11 pm. There was some issue with the extruder which was spoiling the outputs, but was fixed in another couple of hours, and the printed prototypes are unbelievable.



An arrangement was made to make a time lapse video using my camera and an iphone, which can be found at the following youtube link:

2 comments:

Ganesh Ravindran said...

Congratulations, guys... Can you please tell me what the total cost (including shipping, taxes, customs etc.) was? I'm based in Chennai and planning to get one.

kdeo said...

It was some 50k odd. You can mail shubham.aqua@gmail.com to get details