Another day, another 3D printer. This time we have a model that comes from SUNY Purchase College, where he is working on a laser cut, compact printer that can do 3D Altos Extra models simply by swapping some parts.
The printer plastic pumps 100 microns, more than an acceptable resolution, and uses few moving parts. You'll notice that the printhead rides up to three lanes. This will allow longer bar or add extensions to bring the platform bigger things.
Created by students Shai Schechter, Andrey Kovalev, Yasick Nemenov and Eugene Sokolov, the project is currently in pre-beta and intends to launch a crowdfunding campaign in November. You can sign up for updates here.
The team hopes that the product is completely open source and because it uses very few expensive parts that are capable of very aggressive price. While I love projects like these, I'm anxious to see how they build their software - one of the most important parts of a package of 3D printing. While it is solid would be totally down with this cold equipment.
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