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3D printing at home
My first 3d printer, doing a test print from thingiverse ;)
it was $269 from amazon, free shipping. the kit took half a day to assemble (they quoted 1 hour - ha!). it went together well and worked the first time. YKS is just a reseller; the real kit is from "creality" and the model ls cr-7.
amazon link: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0143WTZJM
it also seems somewhat based on another printer that went thru a kickstarter. this unit that I have seems to have the latest changes or fixes, as nothing really bad happened during assembly and nothing needed to be worked-around (nice!).
I think the hot end is mk8 or mk10. its not clear and spare parts for this are not to be found, at least for this model name. perhaps generic parts can be used when its time to do maint.
the print bed is about 5" and can print a bit less than that, vertically. the printer is very tiny, the ads never show anything for scale (doh! neither did I, lol) but its about the size of a home kitchen blender, roughly. it could easily fit on the corner of a table; vs taking up the whole table (which many 3d printers are large enough to do).
this unit does not have a heated bed. it prints PLA, so far, until I find some mods for it.
controller is 'mendel' arduino (the big mega arduino, not the 328 chip) and runs 'marlin' software on a monochrome graphic lcd with rotary encoder. power is via 12v/10a dc brick (u/l rated!).
took me all of saturday to build. now trying some test prints...
3D printing at home
My first 3d printer, doing a test print from thingiverse ;)
it was $269 from amazon, free shipping. the kit took half a day to assemble (they quoted 1 hour - ha!). it went together well and worked the first time. YKS is just a reseller; the real kit is from "creality" and the model ls cr-7.
amazon link: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0143WTZJM
it also seems somewhat based on another printer that went thru a kickstarter. this unit that I have seems to have the latest changes or fixes, as nothing really bad happened during assembly and nothing needed to be worked-around (nice!).
I think the hot end is mk8 or mk10. its not clear and spare parts for this are not to be found, at least for this model name. perhaps generic parts can be used when its time to do maint.
the print bed is about 5" and can print a bit less than that, vertically. the printer is very tiny, the ads never show anything for scale (doh! neither did I, lol) but its about the size of a home kitchen blender, roughly. it could easily fit on the corner of a table; vs taking up the whole table (which many 3d printers are large enough to do).
this unit does not have a heated bed. it prints PLA, so far, until I find some mods for it.
controller is 'mendel' arduino (the big mega arduino, not the 328 chip) and runs 'marlin' software on a monochrome graphic lcd with rotary encoder. power is via 12v/10a dc brick (u/l rated!).
took me all of saturday to build. now trying some test prints...