That’s great! Thanks for the link. That name though… wouldn’t stop me from buying but I don’t think I could talk about it out loud with anyone.
I love this, but offering the product as a 3D print isn’t great. Sell me the guts and the STL, sure. But if I’m buying the whole thing, I would expect molded plastic. 3D prints are for enthusiasts or POC, not production
Depends the part, depends on the quality.
3D printing is great for small scale manufacturing and is production ready. But the QC needs to be top notch. Plus not everyone has or can use a 3d printer.
That said, if you sell 3d prints it needs to be disclosed, and you need to offer a decent warranty.
I make 3d printed e-reader cases. I designed it to be repairable and these parts have a very long warranty for the 3d printed parts since I know they won’t be as durable as injection molded.
These look cool – bookmarked!
I’ve talked with this person in the past, they are very reasonable in general, although I disagree with their stance on not offering the hardware only and allowing the user to 3D print their own case. They currently don’t want to do that because they can control the quality of prints that get shipped with their product, and anticipate (based on previous experience IIRC) an increase in support needs for self-printed cases that they both aren’t willing to bear and aren’t willing to allow. They want this to be sold as a finished product that happens to include some 3D printed parts that you CAN swap out later at your own risk, which makes enough sense even though it’s not how I would prefer it.
Its also that the difference in cost would be minimal. I bought an adept and printed my own parts. Best trackball IMO. I would just like a bluetooth one for traveling.
I just added this to my bookmarks, thanks!
I wish I knew about this before buying a Logitech mouse a while back haha.
