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Re: Cube and Cubify to go away

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Originally Posted by cbale2000 View Post
To quote the link you provided:


IMO, the Cube printers are one of the worst, most overpriced printers on the market, and I for one, will not miss them.

I'm tempted to go out and buy an Arduino and a G-shield for our Cube and just bypass the stock control system and use the existing motors. The existing Cube software is terrible, and the filament spools are expensive and too small.
I agree completely BUT for what it's worth, it took very little setup to get the ekocycle printing. We had it out of the box and printing in about 30 minutes. It was a mediocre printer though and we never could get the sizing quite right but we did use parts that it printed on our robot.
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