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Originally Posted by Dominick Ferone
Yea I was assuming you can't just go out and buy this printer ourselves.
How much does the chassis weigh compared to if you made it out of metal? Or is that something that you can't fully calculate?
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Somebody somewhere said that the company wants to commercialize them soon, but I'd guess they will cost well over $100K, so out of the reach of all but the richest teams, or those with a sponsor interested in the machine for whatever reason.
As for weight, I can't speak for the team but I'd guess it would be very lightweight, probably even lighter than our laser-cut plywood bot (which was 105 w/ electronics and mechanisms).
[Bring] programmers [to Championships], they may be small, quite and easy to miss while leaving for Atlanta but its hard to do anything robotic without them, I've tried. - Simon Strauss [more] 
05-05-2015, 21:09
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