Quote Originally Posted by Feign View Post
I was a bit surprised at the build area, as I don't think it was mentioned before, and I had never seen the printer with a person for scale before the indiegogo video... This is actually a pretty large box, comically large, in the scene with the little kid lifting the cover. I guess with so much of it being effectively empty space, it's pretty easy to scale up (to a point).
Yeah, maybe we should have found a bigger kid. In absolute terms, though, the printer is not that big - a 15" x 11" footprint. (Only slightly bigger than a Makerbot Mini but with 50% more build area.) That was one of our big decision points: is the increased size worth the cost and simplicity advantage of our moving platform design. We think that for a small printer it is. As you move to a larger build area, though, all sorts of factors change and our moving platform design is less advantageous.