Basically title, but I can provide some information.
I’m looking to spend no more than $300 or so. I’m not well versed in different filaments (I’ll be honest, I know nothing) or really anything about 3d printing, but I want to be able to print cup holders for someone I know whose vehicle has none, I imagine heat resistance and strength would be important there. I also do robotics now and would like to be able to make my own small robot chassis and parts. I’m also a Linux user and like FOSS, which I believe is fairly compatible with 3d printing, so I would like to find a printer that doesn’t make me use proprietary software and that I can use with Fedora Linux without too much hassle. I know I’m new to this, and I know I’m in other hobbies where people post things like: “I want to spend no more than 6 dollars to get artificial superintelligence running on an Arduino Nano,” so I hope this isn’t that, and sorry if it is. Thanks in advance.
Hi. If you would be willing to spend around 400$ I would recommend the Qidi Q1 Pro. I have printed on this printer since October pretty daily and it’s solid. Thanks to core-xy kinematics it’s fast and print quality is amazing, my older bedslinger is collecting dust in the basement. Printer is running open source klipper, I’m on fedora, using orca slicer with default profiles from Qidi and my experience was flawless. Technologically it was a big step up from my previous 3d printer which required very much tinkering to achieve decent quality, so I’m very happy with Q1 because now I just print. So far I’ve printed with PLA, PETG, PCTG filaments.