Another day, another 3D printer. This time we have a model
that comes from SUNY Purchase College where they are working on a
laser-cut, compact 3D printer that can make extra tall models simply by
swapping out a few pieces.
The printer pumps out plastic at 100 microns, a more than acceptable
resolution, and uses very few moving parts. You’ll notice that the print
head rides up three rails. This would allow you to add longer bars or
extensions to bring things bigger than the platform.
Created by students Shai Schechter, Andrey Kovalev, Yasick Nemenov
and Eugene Sokolov, the project is currently in pre-beta and they aim to
launch a crowdfunding campaign in November. You can sign up for updates here.
The team hopes to make the product completely open source and because
it uses very few expensive parts they’re able to price it very
aggressively. While I love projects like these, I’m anxious to see how
they build their software – one of the most important parts of a 3D
printing package. As long as it’s solid I’d totally be down with this
cool rig.