With Core ONE, Prusa’s Open Source Hardware Dream Quietly Dies
hackaday.com
Yesterday, Prusa Research officially unveiled their next printer, the Core ONE. Going over the features and capabilities of this new machine, it’s clear that Prusa has kept a close eye on the…

Sad to see them go this way, but not unexpected, thanks to the article by Josef Prusa where he complains about open source.

  • phrogpilot73@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    SV08/ voron for the folks that like to tinker (and value not living in a walled garden, Sovol’s hot end/ nozzles not withstanding).

    I would call the SV08 hot end/nozzles proprietary-ish. They still published everything on github, which enabled the community to design a modified heat sink (that I got printed on PCBWay). The updated heat sink allows you to swap in an E3D Revo nozzle. That wouldn’t be possible if it was truly proprietary.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      If I remember correctly, they give back money to the voron community and are (as far as I know) fully open source all the way.