Peachy Printer - another 3D printer from kickstarter or a new player on the market?

    Articles about new 3D printers appear on the hub regularly and efficiently, but so far there has been nothing about this printer (two days have passed since the start of the campaign). I will fill this gap, so:

    Peachy Printer is the most affordable ($ 100) 3D printer and scanner.


    Watch the introductory video, revealing the principle of work and explaining where this cheapness came from.



    Peachy refers not to the already familiar printers operating with the melting of ABS / PLA rods, but to printers using Laser stereolithography
    (I note that printers with stereolithography were earlier on kickstarter, for example, a year ago www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form- 1-an-affordable-professional-3d-printer - but what it was called “affordable professional 3D printer” sold for more than $ 2000)

    In our case, laser stereo lithography implies that there is a liquid photopolymer (or, as it is usually called, resin - “resin”) is the UV laser that controls the response birth and layer by layer "grows" the model we need.

    The Peachy printer uses several surprisingly simple, but (at first glance) effective ways to reduce the cost:
    no separate (except for the laser module itself) electronic components. All control of the module is through the output of the computer's sound card, and feedback is through the microphone input. The printer needs two containers, in the top - water-salt solution, in the bottom - photopolymer. Water is dripping dropwise into the lower container (closing the contacts transmitting liquid level data to the microphone input along the way), and thereby raising the layer of photopolymer higher and higher. The software, in the form of a module for the Blender 3D modeling program, translates the model in the form of instructions for deflecting mirrors that control the laser.

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    Wikipedia on stereo

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    lithography Peachy sample

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    unsightly view of the module's interior - mirrors and a laser

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    A more complex model (it looks somehow not impressive)

    The creators of the www.peachyprinter.com project zealously took up the promotion and simultaneously launched two crowdfunding campaigns.
    www.kickstarter.com/projects/117421627/the-peachy-printer-the-first-100-3d-printer-and-sc
    www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-peachy-printer-the-first-100-3d -printer-scanner

    On kickstarter, in a couple of days they raised $ 32,000 out of $ 50,000 (actually Canadian dollars, but this is about the same as in US dollars)
    They started on indie later and still collected almost nothing.

    There is no doubt that the necessary amounts will be collected, but there is a considerable fly in the ointment in our (or rather, in them) barrel of photopolymer:
    • Deadline for finished printers is July 2014 ! Yes, here in ten months another five new printers will be released!
    • Is this printer okay from Canada? here you have the Laser (in the comments on the kickstarter, the author says that it is a 20 mw 405 nm laser ) and the photopolymer in the form of a liquid - will they be missed?
    • Software - the author calls himself an inexperienced programmer.
    • The quality of the result - a large detail in their example does not look particularly high quality.


    He didn’t write anything about “and the scanner,” since they promise to publish details about this a little later.

    Update:
    One user on Google + published a link to a video that was on the official peachy channel, but which was later removed from it. Presumably due to the quality of the video (and also due to the fact that people smoke a lot on that video). There you can see the operation of the module in more detail. (from the second minute)


    PS . About photopolymer - the author writes that a special modification of the photopolymer sold at makerjuice.com is being developed for them , the specifications of the original polymer can be found at makerjuice.com/docs/SubG-MSDS.pdf
    P.PS I assume that the name Peachy is derived from Pitch - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(resin) (Peck is the remainder from the distillation of coal, peat, wood tar, and also oil tar) - but maybe some kind of side and peach (peach) added. And if, as prompted, a glimpse into a commonplace dictionary, you can find out that “Peachy” → “A slang word for 'thats great'”.

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