Well, at long last I’ve decided to give up on building my Mendel. It’s been several months, and all I have to show for it is some hunks of plastic, a bunch of metal rods, and lots of circuit boards.<\/p>\n
I think the main thing that pushed me over the edge was the many times that I’ve described RepRap to people, and they ask “so what are you going to build with it?”. I have trouble justifying building such an expensive machine just to make my own coat hook, which although it would be mine, I could have bought for a few dollars at Walmart.<\/p>\n
I’ve spent so much time building this thing. What a waste.<\/p>\n
I’m not even interested in mailing out the Mendel parts I’ve made, because I don’t want anyone else to follow in my footsteps and waste months of their lives. I think I’ll build a big pile of them, light a fire, and melt them all into one cool melted sculpture of failure.<\/p>\n
Here endeth my journey. I started around 10\/20\/2009, so by today’s date that makes it 5 months and 10 days that I wasted on this unimaginative dull project. Sigh.<\/p>\n
..Jeff Keegan, disallusioned.<\/p>\n
[Edit: Gotcha! Man, some of you are pretty gullible (and\/or don\u2019t own calendars). \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n
See the next post for a followup.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d blocked comments yesterday so no one would spoil it too early. I\u2019m now passing those comments through, after this one (I\u2019m not sure if WordPress will put those before or after this). ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well, at long last I’ve decided to give up on building my Mendel. It’s been several months, and all I have to show for it is some hunks of plastic, a bunch of metal rods, and lots of circuit boards. … Continue reading