Touted as the world's first $100 replicator, the Peachy Printer is quite portable, easy to use and ridiculously cheap. The idea, which began as a experiment to see whether such a device can be built using nothing more than household materials and parts, is now nearing a finished product. So, in a final push to bring "Peachy" to the masses, inventor Rylan Grayston launched a fundraising campaign on crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter
photolithography printing is a very simple process so it would seem doable, especially with some bulk discounts. The disadvantage of photolithography is that the resins are very expensive and often dangerous
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Why not just buy one, normal 3D printer and 3D print more 3D printers XD
Important thing for these is will it be cheaper to print a doodah like, say, a bathplug, than to get a mass produced one from a shop ? Once it becomes easier to print toothbrush, clothes pegs etc than take a trip to the shops then this will become part of everyone's life. What I like is that you can use bioplastic, and you can do things like grind up old plastic bottles and use that as a material.
What would the energy use be of 1000 people all running a little motor and laser to make their widgets, vs making 1,000 widgets with a big machine, transporting them, keeping them in shops, paying staff, fetching them from shop to home, financial transaction fees etc etc. ?
Definitely not, UV sensitive resins are pretty nasty, and you have to be careful when working with them. I love how they suggest finishing the curing process by leaving the part out in the sun as well, old school PCA!
The way the mirrors are controlled is pretty interesting though, I'd like to see how accurate the results are and the resolution it's capable of.
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