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Sheet Metal Brake and 3d Printer.
S. Heslop:
I find alot of people online reviewing products that got them sent for free for the review. Wonder how you get in on that...
nrml:
--- Quote from: S. Heslop on September 30, 2018, 02:56:15 AM ---I find alot of people online reviewing products that got them sent for free for the review. Wonder how you get in on that...
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I believe you start by setting up a youtube or social media channel that becomes popular and heavily subscribed. The corporate devils will come knocking at your door and then you sell them your soul for their twelve pieces of silver then spend the rest of every waking hour of your life churning out as much content as you can to keep the devils happy and your pockets lined.
S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: nrml on September 30, 2018, 03:39:12 AM ---
--- Quote from: S. Heslop on September 30, 2018, 02:56:15 AM ---I find alot of people online reviewing products that got them sent for free for the review. Wonder how you get in on that...
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I believe you start by setting up a youtube or social media channel that becomes popular and heavily subscribed. The corporate devils will come knocking at your door and then you sell them your soul for their twelve pieces of silver then spend the rest of every waking hour of your life churning out as much content as you can to keep the devils happy and your pockets lined.
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Hahah. That's why I didn't go further with the youtube game. Seems like a weary life being at the mercy of an algorythm and there's no way you can produce Good Content on your own budget to the weekly schedule demanded for success.
S. Heslop:
Managed to sell that fursuit head at last for a pretty decent price. Already spent most of it on this printer though.
Went about today making a fool of myself trying to find somewhere willing to cut the plates. Went with a laser cutting place in the end but they won't be ready till next week. Also in the end I just ordered all the wheels for their astonishing price instead of trying to cut them. I don't quite have the free time or enthusiasm I used to. Tomorrow i'll go to the usual place and see if they have all the fasteners in stock.
Still need to get the controller board, build plate, and figure out what i'm doing with respect to the extruder. After that I *THINK* I might have everything to get it running.
Hopefully some day i'll actually have an update worth posting!
S. Heslop:
Plates will be ready on Thursday and then things might get interesting. But for now i've just tapped the ends of the extrusions.
But i've been looking at controller boards again and man it's frustrating. I'm not sure if I really understand the deal with open source stuff. I mean I get what it is but I don't get why people are so damned righteous about it. A Chinese guy offered them a board at 1/3rd of the price of what they already had, and then they outright rejected and sabotaged it. To me it seems like the guy selling the original board convinced 'the community' to do his work for him in fixing software issues, and then they all convinced each other that he did them a favour.
I dug up a passive aggressive slap fight between the SBase developer and the Smootheboard developer, where the SBase guy was politely explaining why he built the board the way he did but the Smootheboard guy was finding petty ways to criticize it. He came accross as a bit of a jerk. I can understand being protective about his product, but it's when he starts coming out with the 'I empowered a community to develop an amazing system, and you're just stealing THEIR hard work' stuff.
So in conclusion, i'm still confused. The Chinese boards seem good but supporting them is a taboo in the 3d printing community.
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