Replicator 2: the most advanced desktop 3D printer

MakerBot Industries introduced a new generation of its famous 3D printer. The Replicator 2 model is much better than the previous one: it provides a resolution of 100 microns instead of 270 microns and can print an item with a volume of 6.7 dm ³ (+ 37% to the past).

Replicator 2 the size of a large microwave can be put on the desktop near the computer. The model is sold for $ 2,199 at the company's store in Manhattan, as well as at the office . The printer works under Windows XP and 7, Mac OS X and Ubuntu.


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Unfortunately, with the release of Replicator 2, the manufacturer decided to abandon Open Source. Joseph Prusa (Josef Prusa), the leading developer of the RepRap 3D printer, which became the basis for the first version of the Replicator, is extremely indignant that they could do this: “Then they received about $ 10 million in funding, and everything began to change. More recently, they released an open clone of the "replicator" on Kickstarter, and now they have taken all my designs from Thingiverse, compiled them into one package - and closed it, "- Prus resents. In the coming days, he intends to remove all of his works from Thingiverse so that no one else can use them, and calls on everyone else to do this .

It should be noted that the Czech engineer Joseph Prusa is a true fan of the Open Hardware movement, he even tattooed the Open Hardware Foundation logo on his arm.

The MakerBot company not only does not lay out the design of its printer, but also released the MakerWare 3D editor with closed source, although they had used the Brazilian programmer Skeinforge for many years, who doesn’t have a 3D printer at all, writes Joseph Prusa.