Approximate costs to get 3d printer hardware

Hello,

Could someone help with approximate prices to get all necessary hardware for a 3D printer. Are there kits to buy? Providers?
The intended use is to tissue engineering experiment.

Thank you!

George

I don't know for everyone else but from what I've seen, about $800 USD is a good zone for a prusa mendel or mendel90. I've builted my own repstreap though for about $300 with things I already had on hand.

akenvim Wrote:
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> I don't know for everyone else but from what I've
> seen, about $800 USD is a good zone for a prusa
> mendel or mendel90. I've builted my own repstreap
> though for about $300 with things I already had on
> hand.

Thank you!
Do you know which parts are special for tissue engineering? I supose the extruders must be specials.

George,

welcome to reprap!

Yours is not an easy question to answer. There are so many different machines that have completely different hardware requirements.

The best answer for you at this point is to keep looking around on the forums. Read as much as you can.

There is a current crop of machines that are fairly readily available from a variety of sources. Kits are certainly available, but after reading enough you may feel confident and source the parts yourself.

Some of the machines you should consider:
Mendel90
Prusa i3
Prusa i2 (basic machine, but a good introduction)
MendelMax 1.5
MendelMax 2.0 (still in beta stage, but a very nice looking machine)
PrismMendel 1.5
Rostock/Klossl (an advanced machine, but not widely accepted yet)

But if you want to do tissue engineering you should contact Jordan Miller at Hive76 in Philadelphia. He's working with 3D printing and regenerative medicine. He designed the Baricuda extruder.

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Nice to meet you guys and tanks for the suggestions :-)

George