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My New Customer Makerbot Experience

Just like i did with the Solidoodle I am sharing my overall experience purchasing a new makerbot. I will compare some of the same prints i did on the solidoodle with makerbot. Take in mind 80 percent of the difference is firmware for the "reprap" makerbot controller and the Makerbot slicer is more consistent than the open source SLIC3R. Also I have a used unit that I have had for a week while still waiting on the new one. First things you should know is I like to get the best reasonable deal i can. I discovered a few Promos for Makerbot you can also take advantage of if you call their sales line. Take in mind not all promos work on their website. Currently ( as of April 7 2014) Replicator 2 systems are on sale at 200 dollars off without a promo code as well.

$200 off purchase price PROMO MAKERBOTFRIEND

Free Shipping PROMO LASTCHANCE
( this is emailed to you if you add any item to you cart and don't complete a order)

Filament 15% off BIRDHOUSE

at this time buy any 4 spools of filament get additional 10% off

20% gold conference pass BOT

Alternatively Amazon has makerbot filaments with free shipping if you need them quicker as well.

At this time the filaments i have and price before discounts to use are:

  • Makerbot 4 rolls of white ( 8.8 pounds) $48 x 4
  • Makerbot 1 roll of clear ( 2.2 pounds) $48

on the way are:

-Makerbot 1 translucent red (2.2 pounds) $65 -Makerbot 1 black filament (2.2 pounds) $48

-Ninja Flex black 1.1 pounds $60 -Ninja Flex red 1.1 pounds $60 -Ninja Flex white 1.1 pounds $60


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United Kingdom
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Don't use frontpage, it will not produce a cross browser compatible website, it will build a website which only displays correctly in IE 99% of the time. It's old. It's discontinued.

Personally speaking, and I am old school, I hand code all websites I build using raw html, css etc. However, I have used some programs in the past and in my professional opinion DreamWeaver is the best of the bunch.

A lot of hosts (myself included, however I'm restricted to the UK only) offer browser based website builders. It'll be listed as a feature.

Also there are a lot of pre-made backends such as Wordpress, Buddypress, Drupal, Dragonfly, Nuke (a whole lot of them). Some hosts offer one click installs of these (again, it's something I offer on my packages) but if not then they aren't difficult to install. They do have downsides though, mainly security.

There's no substitute to having a professional build your website though. Sure, you can get the tools and build it yourself for $20 and a whole load of hours but you get what you pay for. People wouldn't pay me what I charge if it wasn't worth it. Even EZ-Robots have an in house developer. Do yourself a favour and hire a professional developer who works strictly to W3C for cross browser, multiple OS, mobile browser compatibility.

I don't know what Anthony uses to build the website however a quick look at the code has indicated whatever it is hasn't done the best job. No disrespect to anyone but a lot of bad practice and errors are in the code from things such as having the css in the html rather than a css document, no correct doctype defined, meta tags aren't great... I could go on and on (and on)... All of these things will mark the site down on any search engine.

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@mohammed , lol last i used it was in 2003 to 2006, chrome was not even invented then i believe so multi browser compatibility was not a issue. Last website I built was tenoaksvitamins.com I believe.

So anyways , back to 3d printing..

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messing around i decided I would like to make myself some souvenirs. Some are little 3d printed robots but I tried printing a 3d starship Moya from Farscape and on the other printer I did another ironman ARC reactor scaled to 3.25 inch wide for Justins War machine suite.

United Kingdom
#67  

I never said it didn't work, I said (XLRobots) contained errors and bad practice. W3C Check shows some errors.

Your flowernow site (homepage only); Website does not display correctly on mobile devices. Website does not display correctly in Firefox at 1024x768. No robots.txt No sitemap.xml

SEO report score of 52% Google pagerank of 0

I could continue but there's no point as it seems you have taken offence to my comment where it was meant as advice. I don't dispute the site loads and brings in sales however, from a web development point of view it isn't great and gives a very poor google page rank.

XLRobots falls to the same issues. Unless people are given the link in one form or another it's difficult to find the site.

South Africa
#68  

Hi Anthony I was wondering which web builder you are using for xl robots

South Africa
#70  

Do you pay per month or anything like that

South Africa
#71  

So it's like a once of thing

#72  

Ok , so giving some thread CPR here. I have been through i would guess about 150 hours or more of printing on the replicator 2. Unfortunately BOTH my replicators extruder clogged the same day. Both are stuck like chuck. I have done the normal troubleshooting to get it unclog get so now I'm looking for more extreme method. I was bummed I have not been able to print today.

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Basically I have been printing practically non stop except maybe 2 to 3 hours between prints in some cases. I am printing the hulkbuster helmet is several segments I cut up from another 3d model a friend gave me. This was the progress in dark grey.

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