[kellyjrose]

Thanks.

The basic thought was to get it to a point that we could provide it to designers and university students with little to no engineering experience and they could start printing their 3d models right away. Hence, the heavy emphasis on self-calibration and ease-of-use.

The price range just works because we also designed it from the start to be a manufactured product, so we get an economy of scale very quickly as more people pick it up.

You can see print quality examples on ponoko, Derek swung by our office to see it close up in action yesterday: http://blog.ponoko.com/2012/10/04/pandabot-3d-printer-launch...