If they are going to use these, I am not having a lot of hope for this machine - especially a delta, where the motors are loaded quite a bit, having to hold the entire weight of the extruder.Yeah but maybe the weight will take care of the backlash....
Let's not forget the free shipping to anywhere in the world....
This is a disassembly of the cheap motor:
If you have even went to Shenzhen, you will know how cheap things can go in bulk.
Even in China, quality products are not cheap. I backed this "Tool pen" made in Taiwan. 60 bucks for a new kind of bits screwdriver, with 22 bits. The campaign went flawlessly, hitting every point in the time plan, and shipped on time. They're now running a second kickstarter with a smaller tool pen, with precision bits. I think every old backer is backing this one also. It reached the goal efter one hour.
A bad chinese copy is generally cheap as a sardinian, but creating an original product there and still have it cheap? No.
Personally, I don't think I need a quality product, what I want is a tool that can bring me into the 3d printing world.
This applies to tools in general
Feedback - as mentioned, I can't find any reference of feedback except for 'accelerometer on the head'. This seems like that is the only source of feedback, which will certainly keep costs down, but I fear the accuracy and precision will suffer. Also, ""This same accelerometer is used for auto calibration, plus something even cooler. Tiko can measure its own performance, so with your permission, we can use performance data from your printer to help make every Tiko better."" - maybe they are using the accelerometer for feedback and using big data to improve results.
I am always suspicious when a 'design team' says they have a super secret solution to a critical problem. Unless they provide some reasonable high level explanation of the solution, I tend to call BullS*it on such claims. It is my experience that such claims are often a stalling tactic as the team have yet to solve the issue and just want to claim 'secret sauce' is involved to avoid answering probing questions.
For a superb example of this, take a look at the Mu thermal camera project that fell flat on its face. A disaster from the start that claimed that all manner of NDA's and 'secrets solutions' prevented them showing anything useful of the design. Mu have never released any reasonable explanation of how they were going to achieve the quoted price point when so many expensive obstacles stood in their way. I have to wonder if this printer project is following the same blinkered path ?
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I am always suspicious when a 'design team' says they have a super secret solution to a critical problem.
For a superb example of this, take a look at the Mu thermal camera project that fell flat on its face. A disaster from the start that claimed that all manner of NDA's and 'secret solutions' prevented them showing anything useful of the design. Mu have never released any reasonable explanation of how they were going to achieve the quoted price point when so many expensive obstacles stood in their way. I have to wonder if this printer project is following the same blinkered path ?
For a superb example of this, take a look at the Mu thermal camera project that fell flat on its face. A disaster from the start that claimed that all manner of NDA's and 'secret solutions' prevented them showing anything useful of the design. Mu have never released any reasonable explanation of how they were going to achieve the quoted price point when so many expensive obstacles stood in their way. I have to wonder if this printer project is following the same blinkered path ?
to be fail Im now somewhat certain Mu wasnt a scam after all, and they were talking about Seek sensor (or a predecessing prototype) all this time.
For a superb example of this, take a look at the Mu thermal camera project that fell flat on its face. A disaster from the start that claimed that all manner of NDA's and 'secret solutions' prevented them showing anything useful of the design. Mu have never released any reasonable explanation of how they were going to achieve the quoted price point when so many expensive obstacles stood in their way. I have to wonder if this printer project is following the same blinkered path ?
to be fail Im now somewhat certain Mu wasnt a scam after all, and they were talking about Seek sensor (or a predecessing prototype) all this time.There is no evidence of any connection between Mu and Seek - Mu were just a bunch of idiots who didn't have a clue what thy were doing