I don't think I can do better to make better Pallet either, with all do respect, Pallet engerneer done great job to make current version as good as it is. However, the solution born with its limitations to do what it is defined to do currently. I don't know much about the finacial situation of this company and hopefully they have enough founding to support till their product mature.
]]>People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
This also goes for people that claim they can do better but do nothing.
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]]>Pallet 2 use complex mechanism to do simple task, it has some advantages, but they are not killer application for stuff asking that price. Believe it or not, they will come up with the automatic filament loader sooner or later, if they price it $75-150 depend on how many spool you can load, at least 1/3 of people own 3D printer will get one. Material production cost can be as low as $20 for 2 extruder version.
]]>When I was on computer engineer track, what I learned is engineer and marketing people want different thing most of the time. Whatever engineer want to make may be fancy and advance but they never make enough money. I sometimes wondering if I should switch my career goal to marketing, they can always sell low tech product and make a lots of money and decide to fire half of the R&D team. I was in the only R&D team that they decide to keep and my mom make me quit.
BTW, the point I made is from evolution angle, creatures evolve fancy and complex system to do simple task always dies off faster, not from engineering angle.
]]>For the multi-color/material printing, multiple extruder is still a better solution because of the simplicity. Complex and high accuracy requirement come with more cost and failure rate.
]]>You need to decide if this product is something you need or want and if the price is right for you.
This is just one of the bleeding edge technologies on the market. like i mentioned Prusa had a similar unit and E3d has the 4 tool head printer. that has a lot of potential.
What is the advantage over 4 extruder mod? Seemed to be over complicated mechanism to switch color.
It's one extruder fed by 4 different colors. It can be programmed to stop the feed of one color and start the feed of another at any time. Some people may not have a machine that has more than one hotend or don't have room for machine that has more than two hotends so this would work for them to change colors on the fly without having to have multiple hotends.
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