Quote Originally Posted by Slatye View Post
Just saw the update on the Peachy Pro:



This looks great. It'll be interesting to see how much better it works with feedback, and hopefully there'll be upgrade kits available eventually.

The Peachy will probably benefit more from feedback than a conventional FDM printer would (because steppers are discrete, so as long as you don't miss steps it will actually end up exactly where you want, whereas the galvanometers are continuous). On the other hand, the basic Peachy seems to be doing just fine without feedback.

It continually amazes me just how innovative this team is - pretty much every other printer is "we took a Reprap and changed a bit of stuff" (went from threaded rods to belts or vice-versa, put a fancy enclosure on it, switched to a delta configuration, etc). The Peachy is about as different from any other printer as you could possibly imagine.

The peachy printer and the team behind it are incredibly innovative beyond description. I've seen scientific papers being published in Nature which only report on some of the innovations built into the Peachy, and they usually end up costing many thousands of dollars when they actually appear on market. This is definately not an evolutionary step, but a complete revolutionary leap in technology and very inspirational to the community.