Editing Meeting Notes 2022 07 26 (section)

== 3D Printer equipment spending ==

Guy - setup for all the printers is not very accurate - a better arrangement is direct drive, we could also upgrade the motherboard and pari it with a rapsberry pi for super speed. I got some pi 400s on someones recommendation. 

how many printers do you want to do this to?

Gonna do one tonight to get up and running and demonstrate.

can you do a writeup for how much it would cost?

I would do the mother boards in all of them, but not necessarily direct drive in all of them, direct drive is good for exotic materials like abs, polycarbinate, carbon infused, flexibles.

mark- maybe we should wait for a writeup, and then we could talk about it

guy- the motherboards are abt 40, the direct drive is about 40-80, raspberry pis are crazy expensive at the moment

mark- so we are looking about 100-150 per printer

guy- I would say at least 2 printers

loren- do we have a guild managing this?

mark- we have a 3d printer channel in the discord/slack, i'll be a sort of conversation middle