Thursday, May 10, 2012

What are the pros and cons of your machine?

Hi Guys,

Since I created the blog I knew that a lot people would be working in similar project and many of them would create a printer or kit. I think this is great because our project has inspired some other people.

I also knew that the mechanical design in this machine will be something that a lot of people will copy, modify, improve…. That’s the reason we:

-    Focus a lot on software as we believe it can be used with any kit.
-    Will provide the mechanical design details once we reach the goal. We don’t expect that this will be private after the campaign as things will be mainly available on internet.

So, what are the pos and cons of our project?

Pos:
-    Software – we have the best software at affordable price, there is nothing similar in the market that can create the support and print. There are few open source slice STL, this is easy, the complex thing that no open source has is the ability to create the support automatically for the object. And none of open source software has a 3D graphical interface.

-    Controller board – our controller board control 100% of the printer, including VGA input for the projector and motors. Most of people working on similar kits are using the VGA output from the notebook to display the image. This means that you cannot do anything on your computer while you are printing because your monitor will be “busy” for the printer.

-    So, you just need one USB cable out of computer to control the machine

-    We have very few moving parts, which allow us to have very thin wall thickness, around 300 microns. This is very important if you want to print small objects and hollow ones.

-    We are using reliable linear actuator which provides better precision on Z axis.

Cons:

-    We are not a open source kit (electronics and software)

Regards,

Jr

8 comments:

  1. VGA???

    What will be maximum resolution and precision on X & Y axes?

    Why not HDMI?
    Rapsberry Pi has it just for $25.

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  2. What happens with the parallel lines when you finish a figure?(i sow that in your pics of test figures). You fixed that?

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  3. Thanks for sharing these infos. The machine design is great! Now an other "Cons" is... that it isn't still on my desktop!!! he he he

    Compliments for the amazing work,
    Mattia

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  4. Thanks for the post. it was really interesting and knowledgeable information. as well as really helpful for my 3D Printer Market research and development.

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  5. 3D printing is revolutionizing printing. Soon it will change the way we live in the consumer arena and our environment. No need for toner supplies of old.

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  6. I look forward to purchasing one of your printers. I use Mac OS X. So, it is important for my workflow to be able to use my current hardware and software investment.

    I don't have time to deal with Microsoft Windows issues, aside from SolidWorks (which is the only reason why I have Windows).

    Keep up the good work. I am saving my money to purchase one of your excellent 3D Printers.

    Tem Kuechle
    www.tkindustrialdesign.com

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    Precision punch

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  8. Thanks for sharing this its a nice blog the design of the printer is outstanding great work...
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I have been dreaming about having a 3D Printer at home for many years, but the ones with good quality are not affordable and the low costs just deliver poor quality. Sounds crazy but I decided to build a high resolution 3D Printer by myself at home (people actually said that I was crazy and this was impossible). The funny thing I never saw this type of machines in real life, and still haven’t seen one besides the one I built.

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