It’s a maddening, yet somehow fun hobby. If you do it just remember it’s better to get a high quality small one vs a shit huge one.
I started with a CR10 knockoff that was a fucking nightmare. Good for learning how they work, but an overall shit user experience. I upgraded to an Artillery Sidewinder X1 and all my headaches went away (for the most part)
That’s one of the reasons I’ve held off. I like tinkering, but I don’t like having to spend a ton of time to fix something that should in theory work. I don’t have an engineering background and I don’t want my hobbies to feel like jobs.
I’d love buying something that works pretty well, fairly consistently off the shelf and tinker a tiny bit. Maybe one day.
The Sidewinder has been reliable so far. If you really don’t want to mess with anything, a comment above recommended Prusa which I agree with they’re just pricier.
I haven’t shopped around in a few years so there may be more notable brands now. Get one with an auto bed leveler, that’s one thing I wish I had. I don’t have the heart to flash in new firmware and deal with the hardware install (bl touch)
Looks like it’s this thing: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1068443
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It’s a maddening, yet somehow fun hobby. If you do it just remember it’s better to get a high quality small one vs a shit huge one.
I started with a CR10 knockoff that was a fucking nightmare. Good for learning how they work, but an overall shit user experience. I upgraded to an Artillery Sidewinder X1 and all my headaches went away (for the most part)
If you like tinkering it will be fun.
That’s one of the reasons I’ve held off. I like tinkering, but I don’t like having to spend a ton of time to fix something that should in theory work. I don’t have an engineering background and I don’t want my hobbies to feel like jobs.
I’d love buying something that works pretty well, fairly consistently off the shelf and tinker a tiny bit. Maybe one day.
The Sidewinder has been reliable so far. If you really don’t want to mess with anything, a comment above recommended Prusa which I agree with they’re just pricier.
I haven’t shopped around in a few years so there may be more notable brands now. Get one with an auto bed leveler, that’s one thing I wish I had. I don’t have the heart to flash in new firmware and deal with the hardware install (bl touch)
The actual CR10 is a fucking nightmare lol, PRUSA is a better way to go but I’ve heard The Sidewinder X1 is pretty decent.
It’s a good mid-range, definitely not up to Prusa standards.
Calling anything from Creality good is a little generous: Their main benefit is cost.
Sorry for lack of clarity, I was referring to the Artillery as mid range.
Aah, yeah that sounds about right.
These work great at different latitudes , you just adjust the angle to latitude +10° (and a different value in winter but same principle)