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3d printers kickstarter update#

As of now, their have been no printers shipped and no update from the company since last May. The Kickstarter for this printer was a big success, and the company was slated to begin shipments January of 2015. These people go great lengths to make their companies seem as legit as possible.įirst up, meet the FLX.ARM, the 3D printer that uses an unconventional robotic arm for XY movement.Īll things aside, this printer was a good idea, but is destined for failure. These companies do not have a product and will attempt to steal photos of other printers and pass them off as their own. The other companies are outright scams from the beginning.Often times companies will promise extremely low prices for their printers and then later find out that they cannot make money off of such low prices. This is where majority of failed 3D printer Kickstarters lie.

Some companies mean well, but cannot deliver on their promises.

There are basically two different routes that these companies take: Recently though, Kickstarter has also become a hotbed for illegitimate 3D printing companies that promise the world and produce only lies. And since the advent of Kickstarter, these new companies have an easy way to raise money. My point behind this is that the current 3D printer market is wide open like the computer market was back in the mid 70’s, and because the market is so open, new 3D printer companies are being formed almost daily. In today’s world though, a small amount of companies like Apple dominate the computer market, and anyone trying to compete with the big corporations is committing business suicide. And if you’ve ever heard the story of the origins of Apple computers you know that a bunch of guys built a computer in their garage and asked their local computer store if they would buy it.

The current state of home 3D printers, is extremely similar to the state of the home computer during the mid 70’s.