Have you guys seen this? Makibox A6. Seems like Jon is making good progress with his Makibox, and coming up with some interesting ideas. His latest development is a new extruder drive: [makibox.com] This uses a worm drive-like system, but rather than drive the filament directly, it drives hobbed wheels (I assume), which in turn drives the filament. It's an elegant idea, self-cleaning, plenty of power and grip on the filament. nophead did initially have a worm-driven extruder, but his problem was a flexible coupling that debraided, and the friction that system had. This system addresses that issue. It also overcomes some issues of current extruders, but introduces a new one: speed of retraction. If you increase the gearing and speed by using a bigger thread, that leaves fewer teeth in contact with the filament, assuming it's a 1:1 thread relationship between the leadscrew and the filament driver wheels.
Impression 3D : vers une imprimante à 300$ ? Le prix des imprimantes 3D low-cost ne cesse de baisser ces derniers mois. Une nouvelle machine entend désormais passer sous la barre des 300$ (225€), ce qui la mettrait à portée du plus grand nombre : la Makibox A6. Jon Buford, le porteur du projet, fait appel au crowdsourcing pour financer l'engin : sur le site Makible, les personnes intéressées peuvent d'ores et déjà participer financièrement au développement.
Comme toujours avec ce type de système de levée de fonds, plusieurs palliers sont proposés, avec récompense : machine en kit dès sa sortie, version montée et testée, voire même possibilité de rencontrer le concepteur. Les objets seront imprimés grâce à un filament de plastique de type ABS (qui est chauffé au moment de l'impression) vendu de l'ordre de 20$ le kilo, tarif particulièrement faible. Ils auront un diamètre d'1mm. The $300 Desktop 3D Printer? Another 3D printer startup has emerged: the Makibox A6, billed as: "The $300 Desktop 3D Printer". The project is led by Jon Buford, who hopes to raise USD$40,000 by the end of February through the funding site Makible. Buford says: "we’ve set out to build the most affordable, compact, and easy to use 3D printer yet! " But what makes it so affordable? What makes it different from the numerous other kits?
Here's what we noticed: The design is even simpler than other 3D printer designs. We love innovation and it appears that MakiBox is doing quite a bit of innovation. Could Makibox's $350 3D printer raise more money than they have reached now? YES! Mar.1, 2012 Makible is a website similar as Kickstarter that designers and engineers can raise initial funding for their creative projects. Makibox is the first project launched by Makible. Designed by Jon Buford, one of the co-founders of Makible, Makibox is a spin-off of open source RepRep 3D printer designed for students, designers and hobbyists to experiment a compacted 3D printer with very low cost. The MakiBox kit starts at $350 while an assembled kit costs $550. Why the price of Makibox can be so competitive? The Makibox project started on Jan.31, 2012. Makibox has used some good tactics to get the project successfully funded. Congratulations to Makibox for the successful funding!
Now with a price tag $350 Makibox should be the cheapest RepRap 3D printer in the world. Comparing these two projects, there are some differences between the ways Makibox and Printrbot execute the process: 1. (Makibox vs Printrbot) - Can we see examples of printed objects? 2. 3.