Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer

Re:Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer by scotty79 on Saturday September 21, 2013 @04:46PM (#6424448)

Awesome idea. But isn't mirror inertia a problem?

Also constant velocity of z-axis movement might pose some inefficiencies because if you want to print a box you have to set the rate of ascend low enough for the laser to create full bottom and you can't speed up when you are building sides of the box.

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Re:Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer by bookface on Saturday September 21, 2013 @05:50PM (#6424727)

Just print the box titled a few degrees :-)

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Re:Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer by bookface on Sunday September 22, 2013 @03:01AM (#6426061)

s/titled/tilted/

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Re:Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer by maxerickson on Saturday September 21, 2013 @04:54PM (#6424486)

It's on a feedback loop, so you could probably manually twiddle the water valve to speed it up.

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Re:Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer by jimktrains2 on Saturday September 21, 2013 @04:52PM (#6424478)

My wager is that, especially for this initial release, that's being tossed into the sure-but-adds-complexity bin. Perhaps later versions will have a variable drip rate to speed up the process, but the complexity isn't needed in this version.

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