@einziggurat I wrote yesterday about the Pareto distribution. You can get 80% of the benefit for 20% of the work, and conversely, 20% of the work will take 80% of the effort.
The initial work to get to 80% went at a breakneck pace, but now the most important and difficult work needs to be done. Its not as sexy or fun because it's slow and painful, not fast and obviously paying off.
There are still innovations happening all the time. Klipper just included the innovation of adding a movement sensor to the print head to eliminate ringing.
Besides that, affordable SLA printers were a pipe dream a few years back, now you can get some really good SLA printers really cheap.
Materials have also been slowly improving. Whereas before you basically had pla and abs, there's been a slow expansion of materials available, particularly composites.
Overall, these are important improvements, but they aren't just taking existing patented technology and building it. It's slow and steady to get steady improvements. Not dead, but it's unlikely we'll see the breakneck pace of the past without some world changing innovation that PhDs around the world haven't thought of yet.
The initial work to get to 80% went at a breakneck pace, but now the most important and difficult work needs to be done. Its not as sexy or fun because it's slow and painful, not fast and obviously paying off.
There are still innovations happening all the time. Klipper just included the innovation of adding a movement sensor to the print head to eliminate ringing.
Besides that, affordable SLA printers were a pipe dream a few years back, now you can get some really good SLA printers really cheap.
Materials have also been slowly improving. Whereas before you basically had pla and abs, there's been a slow expansion of materials available, particularly composites.
Overall, these are important improvements, but they aren't just taking existing patented technology and building it. It's slow and steady to get steady improvements. Not dead, but it's unlikely we'll see the breakneck pace of the past without some world changing innovation that PhDs around the world haven't thought of yet.
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