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GrowleyMonster and the Dentist are both ends of the rainbow spectrum here.
@GM, i think you meant You get near turnkey operation, but NO flexibility and extensibility
Back in the day I jumped from mainframes into electronics to building an Apple][+ from the ground up, investigated S100, jumped into Unix, learned 20+ computer languages, hacked the hell out of the Apple and IBM, solve crash dumps on numerous platforms and wrote untold programs for corporate and self businesses. I wanted to know it all and it has served me well. But it takes a lifetime. There is no try only do...
Now when something crashes the first thought is 'Oh I know what causes that' and walk away. LOL.
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Open source or not, they all have some flexibility and extensibility. It's more a matter of the person than the machine. If you're intimidated by trying to modify things yourself or voiding warranties, you may not get very far.
We have an engineering prototype (not a hobbyist machine, a $5k + commercial/industrial product) type printer at the makerspace that uses proprietary filament cartridges. Crazy. Nope, not readily extensible or modifiable. OTOH, how hard can it be to pull the controller board and install a smoothieboard? No more proprietary filament cartridges!
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I don't see motors listed either. But the spring loaded end stops are the bomb!
My bad. I see the motors in the BOM. But I am still shaky on this.
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