debating between Fysetc and Formbot 0.2 kit

[Iguana]

This will be my first time building a Voron and I am interested in building a 0.2. With a bit of tuning, I shouldn't have problems printing the parts in abs but I can't decide which kit to go with the Formbot: https://www.formbot3d.com/products/...-kit-with-high-quality-parts?VariantsId=11023
or the Fysetc: https://www.fysetc.com/products/vor...pper-with-cheetah-v3-0-and-mini-stealthburner
I have asked this question and for the most part, everyone says the Formbot but I can't find any decent build guides on that one and I'm not sure which one might be better for a beginner to start with as they seem quite similar. Hopefully some of you guys have build either kit and have feedback on them. Thanks in advance.

 

[NoGuru]

I think you are splitting hairs. Both kits are going to be so similar that you would never notice the difference.
You building and printing skills will play a bigger factor here.
Personally I have built a formbot kit and it was okay, no real issues and I have used Fysetc parts, they are decent too.

 

[BallisticTech]

This will be my first time building a Voron and I am interested in building a 0.2. With a bit of tuning, I shouldn't have problems printing the parts in abs but I can't decide which kit to go with the Formbot: https://www.formbot3d.com/products/...-kit-with-high-quality-parts?VariantsId=11023
or the Fysetc: https://www.fysetc.com/products/vor...pper-with-cheetah-v3-0-and-mini-stealthburner
I have asked this question and for the most part, everyone says the Formbot but I can't find any decent build guides on that one and I'm not sure which one might be better for a beginner to start with as they seem quite similar. Hopefully some of you guys have build either kit and have feedback on them. Thanks in advance.

There's like 3-4 Formbot V0.2 Build logs on this forum.

I have this github for the Formbot V0 Kit: https://github.com/SrgntBallistic/Formbot-V0
I have a detailed review of it here:

And streamed the entire build in a series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwWNdxHVFVf1DbI2nGngUB0O9TWeXn2Sx

3DPrintSOS built the Fysetc Kit on streams:

Mandic Reviewed the Fysetc Kit here:

The main issues I've seen with the fysetc kit is ppl having trouble with the Catalyst board. The formbot issues are pretty well outlined on this forum and my videos/github

 

[ChrisA]

This will be my first time building a Voron and I am interested in building a 0.2. With a bit of tuning, I shouldn't have problems printing the parts in abs but I can't decide which kit to go with the Formbot: https://www.formbot3d.com/products/...-kit-with-high-quality-parts?VariantsId=11023
or the Fysetc: https://www.fysetc.com/products/vor...pper-with-cheetah-v3-0-and-mini-stealthburner
I have asked this question and for the most part, everyone says the Formbot but I can't find any decent build guides on that one and I'm not sure which one might be better for a beginner to start with as they seem quite similar. Hopefully some of you guys have build either kit and have feedback on them. Thanks in advance.

I don't like the idea of the "two-chip" controller Fysetc uses. I'd prefer to have the Pi on its own board. This way I can upgrade later. But that is just my preference because because I'm a software engineer with experience in embedded real-time software and I have some ideas about what I want the Pi to do. (AI using camera and other sensors for input). I might just replace the Pi-clone with a similar SBC made by Nvidia that is much better at AI type computation

Also, are you buying the printed parts? Formbot claims to use glass-fill ABS. Is this better or worse? If you think 10% glass in the ABS is a good thing then go with Formbot. (I have no informed opinion about this.)

The point of the above is that a lot of this is just personal opinion.

Finally, it might not matter. The parts are not so expensive that you can't swap them out for what you really want.