Flashforge Creator II 3D Printer
Wed, 28 Aug 2013
I've just received my Flashforge Creator II 3D Printer from the iMakr shop in London. This is a Chinese version of the classic Makerbot Replicator 1 open source 3D printer with a few improvements and a much more attractive price than the original. The machine is going to form part of the equipment available in the soon-to-open Interact Labs workspace at Phoenix in Leicester and I was looking for something that was easy to use, reasonably well-specified and reliable.
So far it's been working well. I've completed over 5 hours of print time with no mistakes and the ReplicatorG software it uses has worked flawlessly. I will report back on it in more detail when I've had a chance to explore it more, but things are looking promising. For now, you can see how it got on printing the mug I designed in Tinkercad a few weeks back in a set of pictures here on Flickr.
