At 4.5 years, this is my longest running personal hardware project. I've learned incredibly much about building machines that "just work" and I've taken the project as long as I feel it makes sense. Since my focus these days are on electronics and IoT hardware, 3D printing is now more of a tool for me. But why swap out a 3D printer that works great already?

In this video I'm summarising the project and some of lessons I've learned while building it. I discuss filament diameters and selection (2.85mm or 1.75mm), electronics (Ramps, MegaTronics, Beaglebone + Replicape), extruder alternatives (Wades, Bulldog XL, E3D Titan Aero), Mechanical challenges (rigidity, Flex3Drive, Lulzbot) and solutions when building with #Makeblock and what I'm replacing the printer with.

This VLOG also marks the start of this channel as a place to post video's that are somewhat more "polished" (or at least edited) than what I post on my old channel    / jenschrbrynildsen  

Links:
Build log from 2014: https://forum.makeblock.com/t/3d-prin...
Design goals: http://flashgamer.com/hardware/commen...
Wiki page on Reprap.org: https://reprap.org/wiki/BAM
Megatronics documentation: https://reprap.org/wiki/Megatronics_2.0
3D printer pictures on my Tumblr: http://maketronics.tumblr.com/tagged/...