LDO Positron Kit V3.2 Compact Printer DIY Kit by Positron3D

I enjoyed building the LDO Positron kit. I am still tuning it but even as is I have seen worse benchies from commercially built printers. The HBOT motion system, the upside down printing on glass, he ability to fold up and fit in a filament box make this a novel and fun printer to show off. Downsides, Bed tramming (leveling) needs improvement. The build instructions could be more cohesive. You can find what you need but it is spread out over multiple locations. It is really neat watching the first layer go down through the glass but after that novelty wears off and you realize you can't see the new layers as they are being printed. I much prefer direct drive extruders and this is indirect through a Bowden tube. A direct drive mod would be a great addition. I printed the parts for it out of transparent polycarbonate. This was a reasonable choice as it is slightly more temperature tolerant than ASA or ABS. PC is slightly more difficult to print than ABS and ASA. The frosty white parts look good contrasted with the black anodized and carbon fiber supplied parts. This would not be a good choice if it is your only printer. But if you need a printer you can take with you this is a really neat device.

Super fun kit to build! Prints very well and I love showing it off whenever I can! Positron team and LDO support are awesome as well!

I really wanted to love it

I have been using my Positron v3.2 for a while. I really want to like it. It has a great build and the quality of the LDO parts is outstanding. It prints nice and works great with Orca Slicer without much tuning. I really like the size and how it can fold down, but I just don't love it. There are just little things that bother me about it. The leveling is one. Every time you store it you have to re-level it. I just find that to be tedious and annoying. I really don't like the extruder and I would prefer if this had direct extrusion but I understand that would be difficult because of the footprint. There is no filament latch on the extruder so you have to use the load and unload macros. Other planetary systems like the Galileo allow you to be able to remove the filament without having to use the load and unload macros. Sure you can just rip it out if you disable the motors but not the best. I also am not a big fan of printing on glass. I'm probably going to sell it and just stick with my Vorons. My 0.2 never has to be leveled and prints exceptionally.