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Lower Entry Barriers For 3D Printing
The basic technology required to make a 3D printer work isn’t particularly groundbreaking, so it’s nice to see a brand new design as opposed to yet another copy. Origo is a project (company?) started...
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Insane 3D Print Resolution
You know how professional 3D printers start at $10,000 and then work their way up to $100,000 or more? Yeah…that’s probably going to change soon. Dave Durant posted a long series of examples of how the...
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How Low Can You Go
When it comes to 3D printing, the most expensive part of the system is the electronics. Makerbot wants $370 for their Gen4 electronics. With their Gen6 stepper extruder (and the driver for it) costing...
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Time and Resolution
I was discussing ways of making better prints with a guy in my office. What follows is the result of that discussion. A big problem for 3D printing is that you have to trade resolution and time. If you...
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Professionals Do It On Powder Beds
There are a lot of approaches to additive manufacturing. Fundamentally, however, they all break down into a few categories: points lines planes Planes means using sheets of material. This approach is...
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3D Printers You Might Not Have Heard About
The Felix 1.0 can be found at FelixPrinters.com for about $1100. Designed by Guillaume Feliksdal because he has experience in mechatronics and he thought RepRaps took too long to put together and...
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3D Printing and Open Source Appropriate Technology
The Open Source community already has a thick streak of sharing built into its DNA. But just straight “sharing” really only works for one’s technological peer group. Just because something is published...
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