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Places like that do tend to over price things for what some people want because of the cost of first setting up some of the runs they do. Depending on your res
by simcop2387 15y ago
Places like that do tend to over price things for what some people want because of the cost of first setting up some of the runs they do. Depending on your resolution requirements doing it with a reprap style plastic printer could cost you as little as a few dollars for the plastic for an iPad case. Alone that'll be not very smooth but an acetone brushing/bath can smooth it out fairly well.
- learc83 15y agoAny companies you can recommend? Or where you thinking more DIY build/buy the printer yourself?
- simcop2387 15y agoShapeways doesn't seem to be too bad for most things, and have a wide range of materials. But i was mostly talking about the DIY reprap style printers. Makerbot[1] and Ultimaker[2] are great places to start there if you can't or don't want to source all the parts yourself to build a reprap/repstrap. Eventually when the kickstarter prizes are all taken care of brook drum will be selling Printrbot kits which from what he's said will be much more affordable but also a much simpler looking printer. I haven't been able to play with one to see the quality that they'll do but I'm very hopeful for when mine comes in from the kickstarter he did. [1] http://www.makerbot.com/ http://www.makerbot.com/ [2] http://blog.ultimaker.com/ http://blog.ultimaker.com/ [3] http://printrbot.com/ http://printrbot.com/