Our First 3D Printer - It's Coming!

I am excited to share we purchased our first 3D printer.  Soon it will be in our hands and we won't know what to do with ourselves.

https://shop.ultimaker.com/product/8/ultimaker-2

We settled on the Utlimaker 2. We were looking for something that can produce production ready parts but also to be used as a design tool, during the engineering design process, for part validation.  We also have a limited budget for investing in this technology.

Checking Out the Ultimaker 2 Series of 3D Printers at CES

"We believe in open source, we believe in sharing.  We don't believe in patents, it's outdated.  It doesn't work anymore, the world has changed"

After searching the market we settled on the Utlimaker 2 being the best fit for us.  We need to use this for Product Development, so we need to it work out of the box.  That was the biggest selling point for us.

Ultimake 2 Review by WTFBBQ Gaming (43min)

It is also great that this product is Open Source:

• Design Files and BOM
• Firmware 

Stay tuned for more updates on our experience with 3D printing.