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Arguably the Peachy Printer (with pre-release models out) at a sub-$100 price tag has already beaten that.
A lot will depend on how creatively manufacturers go about making a profit. Nowadays 2D...

I tend to use either FreeCAD or Blender :)

I tend to use a small screwdriver and heat the hotend just enough for the plastic to start to melt then insert the screwdriver and ease the plastic back slowly up the hotend. It usually comes out in...

I'd try something like Spray Mount.

I'll tell you when I get my Peachy printer from over the pond ;)

There's a bit about the filament at:
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130614-bendlay-a-new-clear-tough-and-bendable-3d-printer-filament-from-germany.html

I noticed that printme3d are now selling...

Are you powering it through the RAMPS?

I found that the polyswitch hasn't really got a high enough spec. to cope with both the hotend and the heatbed. It is very borderline. The polyswitch was...

I've noticed that Printme3D are now selling it and wondered what opinions you may have on it. I notice that they are saying that it has some degree of flexibility and is food safe.

I built mine from scratch so that I could tweak the design to suit me personally. As long as you draft everything beforehand so that you can alter things as you go along. I found that it was a great...

I don't think Sir Tim Berners-Lee need lose any sleepless nights on something changing the world like the Internet has done.

Err, A lot but I've never timed it.
It's so useful to be able to design and print what I need rather than mess around having to source a suitable part :D

hackaday have a number of different ones on their website.
http://hackaday.com/?s=3d+scanner



... and a kinect based one.
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Looking at it I would say that you need to calibrate your firmware.

This one made me chuckle: http://www.makerfaireuk.com/

Imagine how much it would splatter with the printhead being so high above the print surface, especially the high water content in tomatoes...

I'd be curious to know where to get a Lego NXT alone for less the $60.

There's plenty of software that you can edit .stl's with Sketchup and Blender being but two of them.

I found FreeCAD easy as a 3D Modeller, there's plenty of export options and you can export models to Blender as well as .stl's as meshes. You can sketch, dimension and build the 3D model from that as...

Redsox,
I would imagine that the parts cost for the Peachy printer would be considerably less. I spoke to my brother, who's an electronics engineer in that general field and he said that the idea...

Depends what you want. The Makerbot is essentially to all intents and purposes a trade built system based on a reprap. As far as a reprap is concerned the sky and your imagination is the limit with...

It only takes a few days to carefully construct one if you are more technically minded and careful. However, it can take ages and a lot of tinkering to calibrate it correctly. Remember that no two...

First thing that comes to mind is you need to lower the temperature of your hotend. Not all filaments and colours run at the same settings.
I, personally, have tuned mine down until it stopped...

I found printme3duk.com very fair.
When a roll of filament didn't turn up they arranged for another to be sent after we'd given up on the courier.
The day they sent a replacement the courier turned...

Make sure you calibrate it properly. ;)

I spoke to someone who is an electronics engineer and works in the audio field and he says that theoretically the idea is sound. I would imagine a lot of improvements can be made in the software side...

I find it hard to believe that they can make it for so little cost. The cost of the electronics, stepper motors and JHead would probably exceed that alone.