Rep Rap Pro Huxley Configuration is doing my head in
This reprap huxley kit is officially a pain in the ass(today but maybe not in the near future).
This was obviously built by and for engineers. and there are so many issues with it that when I do get an answer about it, come off as if it is common knowledge. missing or wrong sized pieces. weird firmware configs, AND THEN if you fix one thing, you break another. loads of people on the forums complaining about screws that should obviously be one length but are another, which means the printer doesn’t do what it is supposed to and the best you get is a “oops, my bad…”. strange allignments that keep the prints from even starting. The power adaptor that came with the printer blew up on day 3 and when I opened it up it looked like it had been left underwater for a week (although they did say they were shipping me a new one).
Please note…I am venting out of frustration not because I feel as if I have been purposely misled. I am very very happy that I purchased the reprap from reprap pro. I loved building it and it is a fantastic machine that, once it works, should become an integral aspect of my expressions, BUT, engineers should have editors that make things legible for non-engineers. I don’t program in Python! I had never heard of gcode, or .stl files, or slicing or any of that before receiving this in the mail ( in addition to the €100 in tools I purchased just to assemble it) what I feel they should have done after the crowdfunding campaign in which I bought the machine, is to send some study materials links to the person that purchased it. after I contributed, I didn’t hear from them except to pay for shipping. in contrast, my contributors are probably exhausted by the amount of communication from me, even now, 2 months later. DON’T ASSUME THAT THE PURCHASERS ARE ENGINEERS! maybe a PDF or two and some vids that get your mind ready for what is to come and the community that you are about to join. I did my own research ahead of time but what am I going to do with software with nothing to run it on?
right now I am really kinda pissed. I led myself to believe that I’d be printing by now ( and I’m sure others are) and through a combination of my own lack of knowledge and badly presented or outright confusing online materials on the part of reprap pro, I am sitting here looking dumber than usual. it is heartbreaking to have such a wonderously powerful machine sitting less than a meter away and some bullshit configs (that one day I will understand, but not at this moment) stand in between you and creative bliss. as I stated before, I am as angry at myself as much as I am at them. in the future, tell buyers that they should know A, B and C before attempting to build one of these things!
So I am going to go beat myself up some more then, very very sadly, I must leave this thing alone and concentrate on programming for my set next week. I must adapt the gestural systems and the visual systems to the new computer hardware and add in the aural haptic system I have been working on. it kills me that I “may” not have a printed headset to use in switzerland at the taptap club show next saturday. of course I may figure it out in the next 20 minutes, but now, I at least know that as I prepare my kits and workshops, to remember that everyone doesn’t necessarily know what I know when I know it and to not assume that they do.
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