p.s. sorry for some literary copyright infringement
]]>The vast majority of problems I've had with the Solidoodle have been ones I've brought on myself, either breaking something in the course of improving it, or having my improvements break.
It's been my experience thus far that I'm improving the things I break more often that breaking my improvements.
Most problems I have had are self inflicted - to be honest. But the tinkering is the main attraction at this point. I bought the SD because of the add line "if you want to tinker buy a kit, if you want to print buy a Solidoodle" - I wanted to print. But the tinker bug gets you and.....
]]>The vast majority of problems I've had with the Solidoodle have been ones I've brought on myself, either breaking something in the course of improving it, or having my improvements break.
Exactly and isn't that the fun of it all? Mod, Break, Fix, Rejoice.
]]>Obviously you guys are all missing the point: The point is to have something to tinker with. Once it works perfectly, it will be boring :-).
Oh, I think we get the point exactly. I love the tinkering part of it and agree that it would be boring with out that side of things. That being said, you have to appreciate the humor of of a statement that pretty sums up how so many frustrated users feel. At least at certain times of "tinkering failures" and I know we've all had some of those. 
The board is overheating;
X & Y won’t Jog,
I put a fan on my electronics
But my nozzle just got a clog
That is just too funny, yet so accurate.]]>My printer isn't working,
I've got a little stressed,
My adhesion is substandard
And i'm wasting ABSAll i get is noodles,
That look a bit like hay,
Perhaps I should have read some more
and bought some PLAAt 20 pounds a kilo
I can't take it any more,
and slic3r keeps on crashing
so it's back to the eBay storeI've got errors with my Marlin;
problems with my config file,
perhaps I'll go and clean my bed
or smash it up in style