like you can buy a sonic "haunted" romhack with a cheesy ass bloody cartridge

They don't sell the everdrive clones on Aliexpress anymore because Krikzz got butthurt

@emre monoprice mini sometimes goes on sale under 200usd, monoprice delta's $150 iirc, other than that you're gonna be looking at kits

ebay?

kits are easy to put together but bear in mind you're gonna need a fair bit of tools it will not come with to calibrate it well

at minimum you need calipers and a dial indicator is really worth getting too

that already puts you out of the $200 budget for the cheapest kits i know of

Yea, I've been looking to get a cheap 3D printer. I don't want to pay a lot.

also: be comfortable messing around with firmware, because you'll need to write firmware onto the board yourself, and you're gonna be editing the firmware too

i would say wait for the mp mini delta

if you really want a sub-$200 printer

mp select mini if you can find it on sale, $220 msrp but sometimes it drops to $180

you can go full diy on a 3d printer for under 100usd, but you kinda have to already be comfortable with EME or robotics or mechatronics or whatever they're calling that field lately it seems to change every few years

I am a fabricator by trade, so I am fine putting shit together

and you'll be doing a lot of dumpster diving and repurposing other machiens to make that happen

specifically look for old thrown-out printers and optical drives

they have steppers and rails and gears and bearings

and if you're okay with it being super tiny optical drives have entire assemblies you can use as is for an axis

I've already built a small 3D printer with CD drives. Been using it more for a mill tho

in that case: what is your biggest caliper, how long

6 inches

same, 's why the kossel kit was such a pain for me :(

had to do a lot of "okay, is this value right? no, slightly off, change firmware, flash, how bout now? no, still off, gdi"

but one can make it work with patience since you can measure test cubes with a caliper that size

yea

i just want like a fkn 12 inch caliper

only the expensive Real Machinist Tools brands seem to make them though

i live well enough but i can't exactly sit here and drop a grand on some mitutoyos for a specific project like that

I use a 12 inch Caliper when welding, they can be a pain in the ass on their own

if you have access to one use it

you'll be up and running with a delta kit way faster

ah OK.

OH, thing to note with the sub-$200 printer kits

you _must_ replace the power supply, and you _must_ put a fet between the heated bed and the hot bed connector on the board

otherwise you will have fires, maybe not immediately, but it will happen

ahhh. a fet?

you simply do not fit a safe and reliable 25A+ power supply in that budget, and the boards cannot handle the current a hot bed needs

ohh

so you put the heat bed output on the gate of the fet and wire that up to the power supply directly instead of putting all 20A of that through the pcb

not a problem. 20A Power supplies aren't hard to come by. What is the voltage required?

16A minimum, but honestly if you aren't putting 20A through that bed you aren't getting much use out of it for the plastics that it helps