kbob
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Former Unix kernel guy. Current interests include Scheme implementation, garbage collection, and pinball. Tried angel investing, didn't like it.
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E3D has driven the majority of hotend innovation, not Prusa. Ultimaker's Cura and PrusaSlicer cross pollinate regularly. Grégoire Saunier created the Bear frame. Numerous other nonprofessionals are creating small and not-so-small improvements which haven't become well known.
But yes, the bedflinger FDM architecture is mature. Innovation is incremental now, not radical.
The maybes are places that were nice to visit but I don't know very well.