Seems like a bit of a stupid idea. Looks small messy and not all that useful and the resolution is likely crap.
I'd wait for peachy printer if you want a cheap resin machine
Submitted by Evilmatt on Fri, 2016-04-08 19:12
Also, there's the "not using your phone for 3 hours" thing.
Submitted by brainwipe on Fri, 2016-04-08 20:23
three hours? You'll be lucky given normal print success rates it'll fuck up the first three times and given the lack of wiper or shutter mechanisms it might well be more than that. It also lacks any mechanism for refilling it's resin reservoir so if you don't put in enough goop your print will fail.
One thing that is they don't really mention is the whole messy and lengthy post print cleanup and set step that a resin based printer has.
Resin prints are not finished coming out of the printer you need to do a lot of mucking about most prosumer level resin machines have a dedicated cleanup station and once thats done you need to immerse the thing in alcohol while it cures. Some need uv exposure as well.
They might mitigate that a bit with their fancy resin but it's usually a trade off if it cures completely in the printer it will be easy to inadvertently harden it with light leakage or stuff popping up on the screen and so on. How many ruined prints because you get an email during it and a notification pops up on screen or some such that they forget to disable or just can't
Some of their specs reek of bullshit too: "Unibody: made of simple and durable technopolymers" really technopolymers?
Thinking about it since most of it's internals are the phone you already own 99 bucks for this is a bit of a rip off too all you are getting is a plastic box with stepper motor and a lead screw and a cheap arduino to drive it. There can't be more than 30 bucks worth of stuff in there. I guess you';re paying for the resins which do tend to be expensive much more so than 3d printer filament but still you're not getting much for your money here.
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I've seen this knocking around.
Seems like a bit of a stupid idea. Looks small messy and not all that useful and the resolution is likely crap.
I'd wait for peachy printer if you want a cheap resin machine
Also, there's the "not using your phone for 3 hours" thing.
three hours? You'll be lucky given normal print success rates it'll fuck up the first three times and given the lack of wiper or shutter mechanisms it might well be more than that. It also lacks any mechanism for refilling it's resin reservoir so if you don't put in enough goop your print will fail.
One thing that is they don't really mention is the whole messy and lengthy post print cleanup and set step that a resin based printer has.
Resin prints are not finished coming out of the printer you need to do a lot of mucking about most prosumer level resin machines have a dedicated cleanup station and once thats done you need to immerse the thing in alcohol while it cures. Some need uv exposure as well.
They might mitigate that a bit with their fancy resin but it's usually a trade off if it cures completely in the printer it will be easy to inadvertently harden it with light leakage or stuff popping up on the screen and so on. How many ruined prints because you get an email during it and a notification pops up on screen or some such that they forget to disable or just can't
Some of their specs reek of bullshit too: "Unibody: made of simple and durable technopolymers" really technopolymers?
Thinking about it since most of it's internals are the phone you already own 99 bucks for this is a bit of a rip off too all you are getting is a plastic box with stepper motor and a lead screw and a cheap arduino to drive it. There can't be more than 30 bucks worth of stuff in there. I guess you';re paying for the resins which do tend to be expensive much more so than 3d printer filament but still you're not getting much for your money here.