I was wondering if Glowforge has sent out any units yet. I thought they were supposed to release the middle of December.
I was wondering if Glowforge has sent out any units yet. I thought they were supposed to release the middle of December.
I think there are a lot of people with issues. Seems the December ship date was only for a small number of "beta testers" who will use them in educational and maker type spaces, and then they'll take feedback from those users and make changes needed and start working on the next wave. I've seen people say they they won't be getting it until August of 2016. I'd be a wee bit upset if I paid you $4,000 for something that I wouldn't get for a year after you took my money. But that's just me. I don't think I'm alone, since I saw a post where that announcement was made and then they said after that, they had 11,000 service tickets filed on their system. I don't suspect that was 11,000 tickets saying "No worries, just send it whenever you can....".
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Real name Steve but that name was taken on the forum. Used Middle name. Call me Steve or Scott, doesn't matter.
Latest seems to be public units hitting the end of 2016
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A friend of mine actually ordered one and she was told before the end of the year. She has kept me updated, as I want to see if it does what it says, when she gets it!
Good to see the GF love still strong here at the mill...
The price was always an introductory price that was going up after the initial batches sold. The big holdup has been the redesign of the PSU. They say they have it nailed now. It appears the PSU was redesigned from scratch by someone that knows laser PSUs. It's not going to burn your house down any more than a toaster oven is going to burn your house down. Here's a clip from Makerfaire Bay Area https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkGDIwUE6io
One thing I didn't know was that it's duty cycle limited. (it can only operate for a time before it has to stop and "rest") At 2-3k that's one thing, a 4-6k price is quite another. The sub 5k price point for the desktop size maker type CNC machines is pretty brisk right now. In fact Wazer is about to launch a 5k small format waterjet. If they can keep a machine with enough of the advanced features and the price point in the 3-4k range they might do OK. At 5-6k for the high end, that seems to be a big ask.
The reason I asked is I was wondering if anybody actually started using one and if their claim that the camera can follow the object.
Straight from their website"If you purchased on or before 10/24/15, your order will ship before July 2016. If you purchased after 10/24/15, your order will ship before October 2016."
Yikes Scott I'm with you, over a year with my cash and I got nothing to show for it. Then you have to hope that They can fix all the bugs I would never go in on a program like that. If it was something I wanted I'd wait till the company was actually making and selling them with good feedback. To many scams out there were people take your money and you get nothing in return or you get junk in return.
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I did not think they got paid in advance? Thought it was just a reservation. Nice write up in A&E magazine this month about the changes that home owned lasers like the GlowForge will bring to the market place.
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Paid in advance, hmmm... Just checked the 'rollout' page, almost $28 million.... in advance?
It that's so, what's to stop those with the money from retiring to some island somewhere?
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Kickstarter pay out when the KS funding finishes its run. So in effect if the KS has finished then they will have paid out the money.
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