Let me give you a personal opinion based on myself.

I started working with a Makerbot Replicator 2 when I had just turned 15. Looking back, now about to turn 17, I regret not looking into this sooner. It has opened up so many opportunities for me, including jobs at my school working with the printers I started with.


I think that you should get it for him. I am starting to save up my money to buy one of my own, and I greatly wish that I had gotten one a few years back because I'm thinking of all the things I could have done.