Think $5K is too much? Just wait until you get a dozen services to print what you want for cheap. Fab is overrated and underrated at the same time. We're not going to make our own robots anytime soon, but we are going to get a meteoric rise in expressiveness of physical identity.
A good comparison is photo printing. Even Walmart now carries the expensive Fuji machines that only the top online printers were using.
We'll see the same with Fab -- there will be personal models that work ok. Things will take off though when you can run to Walmart and get things done on a better 3D printer they can afford.
