I have to admit, ever since I’ve joined 3D Hubs as an Intern I’ve become addicted to 3D printing, talking about 3D printing and anything else related to it. When my Internship in the main office ended and I lost access to the printing Lab it was a little weird. Being back in Lithuania , telling everyone around me, going to the Tech fairs was the only thing that kept me breathing.
Having very limited resources I wanted to come back to the printing itself and I think I have found a pretty optimal solution. Enter: Turnigy fabricator
Buildsize: 150x150
Slicer: Cura
Price: ~400$
Nozzle: 0.4
It’s a 3D printer kit and it’s cheap. Keep in mind that I have never built anything in my entire life so I was looking forward to the challenge of learning everything that a 3D printer contains.
Fortunately or not, everything was so simplified that the only resource which was needed was time. Everything up to the different little screws were labeled and put in many different boxes which were also labeled to make sure nothing gets lost.
As long as you follow the book (There is also the entire assembly process on YouTube as well), you’re good to go for sure. When my dad saw the way it was organized he said (and excuse my dad for this) : “Oh… this is for these dumb Americans”
In the end, I’ve got one spool of Filament to try out the printer and the first printed thing was obviously a Marvin. Here it is:
I’ll share the settings of this and my further Marvins in a next thread, but it was very very easy and so far I am very satisfied! Few things like the printer having no Filament feed-in function or being incompatible with the latest Cura version did suck, but I’ll get to that later.
I’ll make sure to share much more of what I do with this thing later on 
p.s. In the end: My dad is even more excited about the printer than I am.
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That’s cool, nice work Arnoldas :)!
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Simona
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Arnold, you are seriously DA BEST
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Brian
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Very cool, great to see it come together so quickly. Any big plans in terms of prints you want to do?
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ferkan
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Great! How many hours did it take you to build it?
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I got it pretty much to be able to show everyone what the 3D printing is. Whoever comes to my house leaves with some personal 3D print. My main goal tho , is that by the time I leave my dad can run his own Hub - so anything that he’ll come up with - we’ll print. Personally, next step is just to get as many exotic materials as I can and try them all out.
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It was me with my dad. So together it was 6 hours. There were so many screws that it was just all about having enough time. I heard other people took 8 and more hours to do it alone.
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Is this an upgrade from Da Bomb? 
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Simona
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Offline section says Da Best ask @ Ze boss
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Simona
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I can feel some national pride in your post…
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This is amazingggggg! Camille95_ze_boss approves @subohm @derKarsten
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Very nice to see the result of putting your printer together Arnoldas! Hope it will make some very awesome prints in the future!
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Haha good to see the party continues 
Nice, one Arnie, I always liked your style!
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Comeback with a bang! Nice, Arnoldas 
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Arnoldas, Congratulations my man! Looks really good! What have you made so far with your printer? I may have some cool projects I can give you to try. Good luck!
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And some father/son pride!
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