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MakerGear is a US printer maker from Beachwood, Ohio, near Cleveland, started by Rick Pollack in 2009 making extruder parts for early RepRap-style printers. Its steel-framed M2 (2012) became a long-running workhorse for engineers, businesses and schools, followed by the M3 series (2017) and the enclosed Ultra One (2018). In October 2026 its store lists the Ultra One and spare parts as available; the M2 and M3 show as unavailable.

Grundlagt: 2009 · Hovedkvarter: Beachwood, Ohio, USA · Ejerskab: Founded by Rick Pollack · Hjemmeside: www.makergear.com

Open: published firmware and design files, onboard OctoPrint with no cloud, and spare parts for printers going back to 2012. The concern is a quiet company rather than lock-in.

Firmware og brugerdefineret firmware
●●●●●		 MakerGear publishes its M2 and M3 firmware on GitHub (m3firmware is GPL-3.0) together with its OctoPrint setup; the firmware repositories were last updated in 2019, and upstream Klipper ships M2 configs. [9][10][13][15]
Lokal styring og integrationer
●●●●●		 The M3 and Ultra One run an onboard OctoPrint-based print manager over Wi-Fi or the network, and OctoPrint's REST API is documented. MakerGear publishes its OctoPrint setup plugin on GitHub; there is no MakerGear cloud or account. [2][13][16]
Tredjepartsfilament, slicere og dele
●●●●●		 Third-party filament and any slicer; MakerGear publishes Simplify3D profiles for its printers. Hot-end parts (V4 barrel, heater, nozzles) are MakerGear's own design but sold individually. [8][4]
Reparationer og reservedele
●●●●●		 41 of 46 spare parts in MakerGear's store were in stock (hot-end parts, belts, fans, motors, LCDs, probes, power supplies), with upgrade and assembly guides, published M3 design files and printable Ultra One parts on GitHub. [4][5][11][12]
Fællesskab og dokumentation
●●●●●		 Public user and upgrade guides and GitHub repositories, and a long-standing M2 user base; but MakerGear's news page was last updated in 2019 and its repositories mostly in 2023-2024. [6][7][8]
Fordele
  • Steel-framed, long-lived printers with spare parts still sold for models back to 2012.
  • Firmware, OctoPrint setup and design files published on GitHub.
  • Onboard OctoPrint: control over your own network, no cloud account.
  • Designed and built in Ohio.
Ulemper
  • The M2 and M3 show as unavailable in MakerGear's own store (October 2026).
  • Little company news since 2019, and firmware repositories last updated in 2019.
  • Older designs: the newest printer on sale, the Ultra One, dates from 2018.
Dokumenteret erfaring
  • november 2021: MakerGear released the Micro, an open-source, 3D-printable printer kit, with its files on GitHub under GPL-3.0. The kit shows as unavailable in October 2026. [14][3]
  • september 2018: MakerGear unveiled the Ultra One, its enclosed industrial printer, at IMTS in Chicago. [2]
Baseret på 16 kilder, sidst kontrolleret 18. oktober 2026. Vis kilder
  1. 3D Printers | MakerGear makergear.com
  2. MakerGear's Founder's Story makergear.com
  3. 3D Printers - MakerGear store makergear.com
  4. Parts - MakerGear store makergear.com
  5. Upgrade Guides - MakerGear makergear.com
  6. User Guides - MakerGear makergear.com
  7. MakerGear - News makergear.com
  8. MakerGear (GitHub) github.com
  9. MakerGear / m3firmware (GitHub) github.com
  10. MakerGear / m2firmware (GitHub) github.com
  11. MakerGear / M3 design files (GitHub) github.com
  12. MakerGear / U1_Printed_Parts (GitHub) github.com
  13. MakerGear / MakerGear_OctoPrint_Setup (GitHub) github.com
  14. MakerGear / MakerGear_Micro (GitHub) github.com
  15. Klipper: printer-makergear-m2-2016.cfg github.com
  16. docs.octoprint.org