Electric-Eye
Form 1: less expensive desktop 3D printer, ready for beta
www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affordabl...
What constitutes an "affordable" 3D printer is a matter of perspective. It is a rather dubious claim for those who don't actually have spending money right now.
3D printing is one of the coolest things I've ever seen at SIGGRAPH, and one of the reasons that attending a couple of times has been one of the favorite things I've been able to do. The personal 3D printer is something that a lot of people
have been working on, Shapeways.com made it a mail-order service. RepRap and the Fab@Home projects made advances and other do it yourselfers have been able to come up with things that produce passable results. (One of my favorite was a large cartesian arm with a blowdrier, which could pass over layers of ordinary, granulated white sugar to produce a spiral torus-knot as large as a punch-bowl.) Here's the latest, and a very slick project aimed at getting high-resolution 3D prints at home. I'm not sure what they mean by affordable though, since it seems that the media is always one of the largest expenses, and this requires a soak in some kind of hardening fixer. Still, it makes me happy to see progress in this area. One day I may be able to print out a solid model of each sculpt I do in ZBrush, so that I can line them up in a row, or give them out to folks.
Form 1: less expensive desktop 3D printer, ready for beta
www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affordabl...
What constitutes an "affordable" 3D printer is a matter of perspective. It is a rather dubious claim for those who don't actually have spending money right now.
3D printing is one of the coolest things I've ever seen at SIGGRAPH, and one of the reasons that attending a couple of times has been one of the favorite things I've been able to do. The personal 3D printer is something that a lot of people
have been working on, Shapeways.com made it a mail-order service. RepRap and the Fab@Home projects made advances and other do it yourselfers have been able to come up with things that produce passable results. (One of my favorite was a large cartesian arm with a blowdrier, which could pass over layers of ordinary, granulated white sugar to produce a spiral torus-knot as large as a punch-bowl.) Here's the latest, and a very slick project aimed at getting high-resolution 3D prints at home. I'm not sure what they mean by affordable though, since it seems that the media is always one of the largest expenses, and this requires a soak in some kind of hardening fixer. Still, it makes me happy to see progress in this area. One day I may be able to print out a solid model of each sculpt I do in ZBrush, so that I can line them up in a row, or give them out to folks.