So called the affordable 3D printer, the Form 1 Printer is capable of printing your design in three-dimensional form. With the high-end stereolithography technology, the Form 1 can construct details as small as 300 microns, and it is able print the object up to 4.9″ x 4.9″ x 6.5″ in size. The printer comes with Form Finish Kit, Form Software, and 1 liter of Formlabs Resin (material for the printing – just like printer ink). The product is now available for pre-order but only USA, Canada and EU. Priced at $3299. Check out the video after the break. … Read More

Laser cutters are all the rage right now. Prices have come down quite a bit over the past 10 years but they are still not nice and cheap so it would still be a purchase that would hurt a bit. … Read More

Originally posted 2010-04-24 07:52:34.

Meet the new kid on the block. Hope you’re not intimidated by size…

Thinking big is kind of healthy, in the world of DIY creativity. And with this new offering from SF based Type A Machines, 3D printing just received a hefty size boost. … Read More

The last MakerBot I built was #33, although given that some of its parts originated from the prototyping process, and given that I scrounged many of the parts (including some borrowed minutes on Revar’s roommate’s laser cutter for the XY carriage), and given that, at the time, I was using slightly nonstandard circuit boards and had to rewrite the firmware to fit, then the software to comply with my new firmware, it might not quite be fair to call it even a first-batch MakerBot. … Read More

Originally posted 2011-03-06 08:39:14.