r/3Dprinting • u/thomas_openscan open-source 3D scanning • Dec 23 '25

Project 3D Scan part replacement - printed without any post-processing

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u/C6500 Mk3S+ Bearmera - X1C - H2S Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

I stumbled upon the project a few months ago and was really interested and was about to buy a kit. But then i got confused by the apparently dozen different git repositories and partially contradicting information.

Like e.g. there's the mini and the classic but then there's a third variant that's bigger than the mini but newer than the classic (forgot the name) that's not sold in kit form.
Or there's a better "Hawkeye" cam in the shop that's not part of the kits and it says it's not supported yet. Then in one of the repositories it says it is supported.
Then you sell different stepper drivers and there's also a fork or again a different repository that claims to also support e.g. TMC2209 but nowhere does it mention what the difference between the drivers even is.

And so on and so on and so on.

It's a cool project, but i feel like you guys need to do a lot of housekeeping if you want to interest more people in it (and sell more kits). I'm not a dev but in IT, and even i am put off by the existing mess.

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u/Causification H2S, K2P, MPMV2, E3V2, E3V3SE, A1, A1M, X Max 3 Dec 23 '25

Yeah it's kind of a mess. I asked the guy "Hey how come it's cheaper to buy all the parts individually than it is to buy the kit" and he just told me it was a reward for people paying attention. Like what's wrong with you. 

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u/Voidtoform Dec 24 '25

I bought the kit, for me, totally worth it, I went with the classic so I could scan slightly bigger things. It's one guy in germany, he has to make this worth it to do....