I think that stance both makes the hobby less approachable, and it also invites early errors – the number of help posts in the Prusa Facebook groups that can be summed up with “You assembled it badly” are myriad. I actually rather support this – there’s a undercurrent of belief in the 3D printing hobby that you “have” to assemble your own printer, and it’s one I disagree with. The 747, like it’s little brother, isn’t a kit machine – it comes essentially fully assembled. It’s less good for photographing finished pieces, but between the recycled PLA and the cardboard spools (and the relatively short distance it has to travel to get to me) I feel less bad about it. It’ll bump up to \$1345 if you add the removable flex plate and a filament runout sensor – things I had on the previous 289 review model, and which I’ll talk about whether or not I miss them once I’ve lived with the machine for a bit.įor the purposes of testing, I’m using primarily ProtoPasta’s recycled black PLA. I’m also not reviewing OctoPrint compatibility, because that would require a Raspberry Pi or similar, and those are rare as hen’s teeth right now.Īt time of writing, this configuration is \$1285. One could go without it if you’re either hooked up directly to a computer or running something like OctoPrint, but even then, I’d consider this effectively mandatory. The somewhat more sedate black coloring option, though it still has plenty of charmingly garish Lulzbot Green accents, a PEI-coated glass bed, the SK175 toolhead which is a 1.75mm filament toolhead with a 0.5mm brass nozzle, and a graphical LCD screen controller – this last piece is the one “add on” that makes the printer properly stand-alone. The review machine Lulzbot sent me is their SideKick 747 in what is close to a base configuration. The Machine Returns (Unboxing and Assembly) Configuration Details One of my comments in that review was that the small form factor of the 289 made the value proposition for it a little iffy compared to it’s bigger brother, the 747. Almost a year ago now, FAME (the parent company for Lulzbot) was kind enough to loan me a SideKick 289 3d printer for the better part of a few months to do a long-term use review of their…entry-level-ish FDM 3d printer.
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