Lulzbot

Your manual for Lulzbot AO100 is awesome, great work.

It sounds like we would need to go to 1000x500x500 to print car bodies like the Urbee 2:

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Large_Scale_3D_Printers

I talked to Jim Kor of Urbee about 1 year ago and he wasn't interested in going open source. OSE is considering building Urbee style design, based on WikiSpeed, our collaborator - to produce our open source car.

How would you feel about collaborating on a larger scale 3D printer and building a car body? Are you interested in a Jam to do this, say we invite 50 engineers to a location for design/prototyping work? Are you considering significant product line expansion?

On the printer:

1. What are the limiting structural factors for scaling print size? Is there any significant challenge to scaling the frame using existing components?

2. If the frame can be scaled - what are the limiting factors determining max size of objects? Is it heating? Is it heat retention? Warping?

Do you have any reservations about collaborating with OSE? I imagine your business priorities may limit your ability to do further development. Given this constraint, how could we address this by bringing in more resources? Is the limiting resource design talent? Prototyping work?

Let me know your thoughts. What is your cell number?

Thanks, Marcin