I'm a mentor for a high school robotics team and as part of our off-season learning projects we are also building a MendelMax 1.5.
Yesterday we got most of the electronics installed and ran a test print in the "air". We have not installed the print bed yet so we just moved the z zero up a few inches and let it run. Worked fine, amazingly enough, but I shouldn't have been suprized, my kids are pretty smart.
In anycase, we'd love to chat with you about your experiences (since as you, ours is widely sourced and home built) about your experiences. It would be great to understand your print platform and which up-grades (since it seems 10 come out a day) you are pursueing.
I suppose you could make it small but then what do you plan on printing with it. Having a smaller printer means you have a smaller print area. I always seem to run out of room with my current printers so going smaller would be questionable to me. If you plan on printing really small objects I could see this but why limit yourself. I would be more than happy to help you out if you would like to build one.
To build a printer for 100GBP($153) is going to be hard to do. The cheapest i have been able to build a printer for was around $300 and thats because i was able to print all the parts off another printer i owned. The printer Billy posted is a little over your budget bud not far off.
i want to put the notebook on the frame of the 3d printer and expand the 3d printer by 3ft len by3ft deep by 3ft tall and add a portable hard drive to it beside the 3d scaner it the cheaper way i can go with the skills i have
