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When is someone going to develop a quality desktop 3D printer? I know I would be willing to pay many times the price of a Makerbot for a proper printer.
by puzzler314 15y ago
When is someone going to develop a quality desktop 3D printer? I know I would be willing to pay many times the price of a Makerbot for a proper printer.
- Joakal 15y agoRepRap is a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects: http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page http://reprap.org/wiki/Main_Page The RepRap Project is an initiative aimed at creating a largely self-replicating machine which can be used for rapid prototyping and manufacturing: http://www.reddit.com/r/reprap http://www.reddit.com/r/reprap Both are different projects, but relate to 3D printing.
- hackernewz 15y agoIf you're willing to spend 10x the amount, you can score a professional printer. How much is "many times the amount"? (p.s. checkout Up! printer)
- riboflavin 15y agoI think you can get a "real" desktop 3D printer for about $5K these days. But the consumer build-it-yourself designs are doing reasonably well, and actually give very, very good results - the catch is you have to be willing to put a lot of time in.
- riboflavin 15y agoI guess I would also note that these guys are all kind of headed in the direction of competing with the "real" desktop 3D printers, but yeah, they won't be there for a while. I wrote some further thoughts here: http://justindunham.net/2011/08/where-is-open-source-3d-printing-going/ http://justindunham.net/2011/08/where-is-open-source-3d-prin...