2013 New Printer announcements

Thought it would be fun to list all the new 3D Printers talked about in irc.

Feel free to add to the list and provide links.

Aluminatus [trinitylabs.com]

Solidoodle 3 [www.solidoodle.com]

Prusa i3 just taking hold now.

Lutzbotz new AO-101 [www.lulzbot.com]

Another new Mendel Max from the 1st designer. Ver 2.0?

MakiBox

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2013 09:32AM by Prober.

Aluminatus has some impressive claims, saying that the printer can do .2mm layer heights look as good as .1mm layers from competing printers. I am more impressed with the claims that it can go as low as .025mm layer height resolution. Thoughts anyone?

This is off topic but printing at .025mm will look good but wouldn't it also mean taking 8 times as long to print the same thing at .2mm layer height? Would it be easier, faster, and maybe even smoother if you post process your print by chemical or high grit sand paper?

If your printer is extruder speed limited then thinner layers allow you to move faster. This certainly was the case in one of my older printers, time to print .5 and .2 layers were very similar.

I happened to notice this one on Kickstarter [www.kickstarter.com]

And Qu-bd are taking pre-orders/beta on their dual printer/mill [www.kickstarter.com]

All of the recent crowdfunded printers seem to have been fully funded, which is encouraging given the economic climate. A few of these claim to be "open source" as well, which really means they will publish the desgn files sometime, the value of which can be seen by the community improvements to the QU-BD extruder.

bobc Wrote:
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> I happened to notice this one on Kickstarter
> [www.kickstarter.com]
> o-3d-printer
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> And Qu-bd are taking pre-orders/beta on their dual
> printer/mill
> [www.kickstarter.com]
> rce-universal-3d-printer-extruder-dual-ext/posts/3
> 77753
>
> All of the recent crowdfunded printers seem to
> have been fully funded, which is encouraging given
> the economic climate. A few of these claim to be
> "open source" as well, which really means they
> will publish the desgn files sometime, the value
> of which can be seen by the community improvements
> to the QU-BD extruder.

Ok, the first kickstarter the RoBo don't think that one will make it into production. SeeMeCnc who makes injection molds for a living believes the costs to make the molds will be too high to see production.

The
Revolution looks interesting.

Found this Replimax on ebay. Kinda impressive 12mm rods

[www.ebay.com]

We also have our Revolution and Revolution XL which are built to the same quality standard (100% CNC machined metal) as the RPM (Printer/Mill) but are 3D printing only and are significantly less expensive.

Revolution XL with a 9.5x9x9 Build Area
[store.qu-bd.com]

Revolution with a ~6x5.5x5.5 Build Area
[store.qu-bd.com]

Chelsea - QU-BD

We got the MAX kits now. Not a 2013 really, we'll call it a late 2012 model? Or, if it were a car, we could call it a 2014, right?

johnoly99 Wrote:
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> We got the MAX kits now. Not a 2013 really, we'll
> call it a late 2012 model? Or, if it were a car,
> we could call it a 2014, right?

You have new round hot beds so guess it makes it newer.

www.SeeMeCnc.com

Prober Wrote:
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> Thought it would be fun to list all the new 3D
> Printers talked about in irc.
>
> Feel free to add to the list and provide links.
>
> Aluminatus [trinitylabs.com]
>
> Solidoodle 3 [www.solidoodle.com]
>
> Prusa i3 just taking hold now.
>
> Lutzbotz new AO-101
> [www.lulzbot.com]
>
> Another new Mendel Max from the 1st designer. Ver
> 2.0?
>
> MakiBox


Found out who is doing the Mendel Max 2.0 [www.makerstoolworks.com]

I have just released my second printer the OB1.4 with a 200mm x 200mm x 200mm build area.

Up on various repositories now...
OB1.4 on Thingiverse
OB1.4 on GrabCad
OB1.4 on Cubehero

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Mendel parts has a new printer called the Luna