RigidBot, a budget 3D printer not inferior to the leaders

    Recently, a kick-start project for the “budget” 3D printer was launched - RigidBot 3D Printer offering a high-quality and cheap option for 3D printing for home or office. In the best traditions of crowdfunding, in the first 12 hours the requested amount ($ 31.500) was exceeded by an order of magnitude and, at the moment, is approaching the mark of $ 500,000. And although you will not surprise anyone with the next 3D printer, it’s still worth highlighting a couple of interesting features of this project:

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    Price

    The device is delivered both in a set and in assembled form (if you are not afraid of the delivery price). Thus, the lower bar (whale option) of $ 340 is perhaps the lowest in the commercial segment, however, after funding is completed, it will rise to $ 500. Moreover, with the purchase comes 1 kg of plastic for printing (bonus for the collected $ 200,000).
    As improvements, you can purchase an LCD / SD kit that allows you to print without a computer or any amount of additional plastic.

    Device

    The printer was very interested in its design: according to the author’s idea, the print area is scaled at minimum cost - by replacing the guides and part of the supporting frame. The bearing part of the device is made of a steel profile, which has a good effect on price, vibration resistance and is very deplorably reflected in weight and delivery price.

    The basic model allows you to print in a volume of 25x25x25 cm, which is already larger than that of Replicator 2 , the BIG version is in unimaginable 30x40x25 cm .

    The authors

    Perhaps it is not superfluous to mention the authors of the project. They are employees of the company inventapart.com engaged in professional 3D-printing on expensive and large FDM machines. In my opinion, this should have a very positive effect on the quality of the design and engineering ideas.









    Project Page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1650950769/rigidbot-3d-printer

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