There are some projects out there that do the entire frame. Steppers, hotend, and control boards are out of reach. There’s some hypothetical ways you could do it, but it’d be far more expensive than buying off the shelf stuff and probably get worse results. Even the frames tend to take a lot of filament.
It’s more of a nice idea than something practical.
OK, fair enough, but a lot of the issues are the same. In fact, 2d printers have much higher precision requirements than 3d printers. 300dpi is hard to achieve, and that’s not even particularly impressive by modern standards. Aligning color heads is even harder. I have my doubts about a FOSS project ever being able to do that, unless it’s somehow crowdfunded to bring in existing experts.
There are some projects out there that do the entire frame. Steppers, hotend, and control boards are out of reach. There’s some hypothetical ways you could do it, but it’d be far more expensive than buying off the shelf stuff and probably get worse results. Even the frames tend to take a lot of filament.
It’s more of a nice idea than something practical.
OK, fair enough, but a lot of the issues are the same. In fact, 2d printers have much higher precision requirements than 3d printers. 300dpi is hard to achieve, and that’s not even particularly impressive by modern standards. Aligning color heads is even harder. I have my doubts about a FOSS project ever being able to do that, unless it’s somehow crowdfunded to bring in existing experts.
Now, a FOSS plotter should be doable.