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Keavon

Name: Keavon Chambers
Location: Los Gatos, California
Registered on September 19, 2010
Last seen April 22, 2012

I am 13, and I love computers, anything to do with computers. I especially like stuff to do with 3D. When I went to the Maker Faire 2009, I saw the prize zPrint 450, the wonderful full-color, $57,000 (I'm still saving up for that one, lol), powder printer, I was amazed. I play(ed) a game called Flyff, and was just getting into 'file-foraging', and converting its 3D files and opening them in Blender, etc., when I was like "WOW! What if I could PRINT my character!!!?". So then my ever lasting love for 3D printing began. When I first saw (on Youtube) a plastic-extrusion meathod, with the eat-a-way plastic for fillers, I was like "What a wast". But then when I went to the Maker Faire 2010, I was like "Wow! Even those things have pretty good quality! What? $800 for a Cupcake kit? Nice improvement to 57k, but that's still too far off a 13-year-old's budget." Then I saw the Repraps, the table over, and I was like "WHAT?!?! I can MAKE my own for like $500!?!?! I love making things, and that's a great price! Wait... you said I can make my money back by selling parts of itself?!?! And maybe even more profit?!?! I'm starting tomorrow!". Well I didn't start "tomorrow", or even during summer vacation, which was my goal, but now it's my school science fair project, so I'm on it, seeing it's homework (nice excuse to be on the computer before my homework is done)... I'm currently building the whole thing, and the rest of the parts other than the extruder and tip.
So yep, that's my very-very-very-long "Bio". I hope to get my RepRap up soon, there are so many things on this site I wanna build!