Thanks Illuminarti,
I think I saw you over on the Qu-Bd forums - I had an RMP on order until I cancelled recently. They held my money for almost a year, and still haven't shipped any, I believe....
Now I'm looking at this new UM2 as a resplacement for printing. I assume you have both this and an RXL? How is the RXL working in comparison?
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I'm not sure what UM's plans are regarding wifi-enabling, but both the Doodle 3D and/or Octoprint solutions just connect to the printer over USB, as far as I know. So adding one or other of those is pretty trivial.
The printer is a little more polished than it's predecessor, but it's all still fundamentally the same technology. And it's not really a fiddly design that needs super careful calibration or ultra-fine tolerances. It's just a couple of motors pulling around a hot block of metal, with a pointy bit on it. There's not much magic really. The slicing software and firmware is moderately clever, and the hardware of the UM2 is a bit more refined for reliability. But if you're 'mechanically inclined' at all, I don't think there's any reason to feel intimidated by it, and adding a second extruder shouldn't be too difficult. :-)
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