innkeeper wrote:too bad i jsut started coming back to the forum recently, i was there all weekend.

What, you didn't see me with my MakerGear T-shirt on?

Is this something that is available now or only after I buy the printer? No, you can see this now. On the MakerGear site, click on "Support"; that takes you to: https://www.makergear.com/pages/support The second line says "Click here to visit the MakerGear M3 Knowledge Base"; that takes you to: htt...

There's been a bit of discussion on the M3 on this forum but I haven't seen much of anything elsewhere. Overall the M3 looks like a careful redesign of the M2 with a number of useful updates, many of which are not that easy to see just by looking at the machine. The only complaint I've heard about i...

It's funny, we came away feeling very much the same way. The combined qualities of everyone defaulting to the kid/family friendly, there not being anything we really haven't seen before, and the sense that there where fewer independent makers showing off their cool creations than in the past. The B...

Agreed. The M2 Dual profile is *not* going to work for the M3 Dual without the proper initialization and tool change scripts to drive the two X axis motors independently. I don't even know how MakerGear is driving the second X axis motor, because (as far as I know, but my information is likely way o...

I guess it makes perfect sense, but I would not have expected such dramatic results. Very nicely done!

It's the sort of thing that makes one wonder whether the "ringing" effects (in X and Y) that are a constant bother could be similarly carefully modeled, predicted, and canceled out in the gcode.

Also in the lobby of the indoor portion, SeeMeCNC was showcasing some ludicrously large delta printers printing life-size statues, putting out thick ropes of melted filament. SeeMeCNC has had their giant delta printer there in the same place under the stairs in the Hall of Science for at least the ...

Nice article. I know that there are people doing a lot of useful things with their 3D printers. . . not just cheap plastic toys. But I suppose one way to look at it is that the printer is a tool, and you don't bring your ball-peen hammer to Maker Faire to show off. You bring your Glow Forge, or Waze...

Well, news from the 2017 World Maker Faire. . . Kind of disappointing, altogether. MakerGear wasn't there. Simplify3D wasn't there. eSUN wasn't there or being represented by anyone there. About the only companies there that I have done business with in the past were MadeSolid and Polymaker. I got so...

I guess that's a "no", then? Well, anyway, I'll be there, and I'll wear my "MakerGear" T-shirt proudly. Last time I went, the Simplify3D booth had a MakerGear M2 dual set up. I'll go see what they're up to this year.