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This is a bit too good to believe, but at $100 i'll bite. I've been into 3d printing for years now, and my main concern is material. If this resin is durable, and doesn't get soft in the car on a warm day, this design could be really groundbreaking. If not, it'll be a waste of everyone's time. The quality looks pretty decent given how awful low end 3d printers can be without a ton of tinkering. My current printer cost me about 2K and ABS/PLA at $40ish/kg actually adds up when prototyping. I'd love to have something really cheap like this to test out prints before finalizing them in ABS.


It looks like the resin they are using is "Makerjuice" (http://makerjuice.com/). I don't know anything about that resin though.


$40 for one liter of red, that doesn't seem too bad.


$40/liter for small prints

$45/liter for large

Not cheap if you want to print anything larg-ish.


Eh, only if you make the large-ish thing solid - this can easily make hollow / drain-able structures. And since it's partially supported by the liquid as it's built, you don't need as much temporary supporting structure as an extruded plastic version.


In this case, the suspension is some with salt water, which would provide very little support.


The resin is buoyant in salt water; is the cured resin?

So long as the liquid resin floats on salt water, I don't see why salt water should provide less support than liquid resin.




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