<story><title>Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer</title><url>https://blog.prusaprinters.org/original-prusa-mini-is-here-smart-and-compact-3d-printer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j-pb</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m glad that prusa has stayed true to his open hardware pledge all these years, while continuing to push the reprap ideals.&lt;p&gt;Everybody is complaining about the price, but c&amp;#x27;mon this thing is designed printed and assembled in Prague, the EU.
It creates local jobs for people with fair wages, social security and good quality of life, we should strive to have more of our stuff produced in the west.&lt;p&gt;Happy to see him design another printer, I really love my MK3.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>The price seems fine to me.  This is going to print a lot of useful parts for people and comes with great software for both your computer and the printer that you can hack and modify.  If this is anything like my i3, then it&amp;#x27;s going to have high quality parts (Noctua fans!) and come in kit form to let you assemble it yourself so you know where everything is if something breaks and you need to repair it.&lt;p&gt;I am surprised that they switched to a more powerful microcontroller.  While it is something Reddit endlessly complains about (despite having no software engineering experience), a lot of engineering is invested into their existing 8-bit platform which works perfectly fine.  You don&amp;#x27;t need 32-bit pointers to read a string like &amp;quot;G1 X42&amp;quot; and pulse an I&amp;#x2F;O pin a couple times ;)</text></comment>
<story><title>Prusa MINI: Smart and compact 3D printer</title><url>https://blog.prusaprinters.org/original-prusa-mini-is-here-smart-and-compact-3d-printer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j-pb</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m glad that prusa has stayed true to his open hardware pledge all these years, while continuing to push the reprap ideals.&lt;p&gt;Everybody is complaining about the price, but c&amp;#x27;mon this thing is designed printed and assembled in Prague, the EU.
It creates local jobs for people with fair wages, social security and good quality of life, we should strive to have more of our stuff produced in the west.&lt;p&gt;Happy to see him design another printer, I really love my MK3.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hevi_jos</author><text>Prusa cares about quality. Chinese mostly about price.&lt;p&gt;For example, Prusa filaments are perfectly rewind, so the possibility of the filament making a knot and stopping the print like has happened to me with other filaments in 14h printing sessions does not exist.&lt;p&gt;Or chinese aluminium printing beds, with 0.3-0.4 mms differences along the printer, that even with a touch probe you can&amp;#x27;t print big things over.&lt;p&gt;Those beds are so cheap, and you could print small pieces with them, but anything serious in size like 18x18 cms will fail. Prusa warrantees it.&lt;p&gt;Quality control is the great advantage that Prusa has over the Chinese(that love lying). He knows it, and sends you a report of the QA of your specific machine.</text></comment>