Peachy Printer - another 3D printer with a kickstarter or a new player in the market?
Articles about new 3D printers appear on the site regularly and quickly, but there has been nothing about this printer yet (two days have passed since the beginning of the campaign). I will fill this gap, so:
Look at the introductory video, revealing the principle of operation and explaining where this cheapness came from.
Peachy does not apply to already familiar printers that operate ABS / PLA bar melting, but to printers using Laser stereolithography
(I note that stereolithography printers used to be on a kickstarter, for example, a year ago www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affordable-professional-3d-printer - but what was called there “affordable professional 3D -printer "sold for more than $ 2000)
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In our case, laser stereolithography implies that there is a liquid photopolymer (or as it is commonly called resin - “resin”) and there is a UV laser that controls the curing process and “grows” layer by layer 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 - through the output of the sound card of the computer, and feedback through the microphone input. The printer needs two containers, at the top - a water-salt solution, at the bottom - a photopolymer. Water drops drop by drop into the lower tank, (along the way closing the contacts transmitting the data on the level of liquid to the microphone input), and thus raises 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 controlling the laser.
Wikipedia on stereolithography
Peachy Sample
unsightly view of the interior of the module - mirrors and laser
More complex model (it looks somehow not impressive)
The creators of the project www.peachyprinter.com 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
For a kickstarter in a couple of days they collected already $ 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 almost nothing was collected.
There is no doubt that the necessary amounts will be collected, but there is a considerable spoonful of tar in our (or rather, in their) barrel of photopolymer:
I did not write anything about "and the scanner", since the details of this promise to publish a little later.
Update:
One user in Google + published a link to the video, which was on the official channel peachy, but which was then removed from it. Presumably, because of the quality of the video (and also due to the fact that there is a lot of smoking in that video). There the module work is more visible. (from the second minute)
Ps . About the photopolymer - the author writes that a special modification of the photopolymer sold on makerjuice.com is being developed for them ; the specifications of the original polymer can be read on makerjuice.com/docs/SubG-MSDS.pdf
PPS I assume that the name Peachy is derived from Pitch - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(resin) (Peck is the residue from the distillation of coal, peat, wood tar, and petroleum resin) but perhaps that side and peach (peach) is appended. And if, as suggested, look into a banal dictionary, you can find out that “Peachy” → “A slang word for 'thats great'”.
Peachy Printer is the most affordable ($ 100) 3D printer and scanner.
Look at the introductory video, revealing the principle of operation and explaining where this cheapness came from.
Peachy does not apply to already familiar printers that operate ABS / PLA bar melting, but to printers using Laser stereolithography
(I note that stereolithography printers used to be on a kickstarter, for example, a year ago www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affordable-professional-3d-printer - but what was called there “affordable professional 3D -printer "sold for more than $ 2000)
')
In our case, laser stereolithography implies that there is a liquid photopolymer (or as it is commonly called resin - “resin”) and there is a UV laser that controls the curing process and “grows” layer by layer 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 - through the output of the sound card of the computer, and feedback through the microphone input. The printer needs two containers, at the top - a water-salt solution, at the bottom - a photopolymer. Water drops drop by drop into the lower tank, (along the way closing the contacts transmitting the data on the level of liquid to the microphone input), and thus raises 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 controlling the laser.
Wikipedia on stereolithography
Peachy Sample
unsightly view of the interior of the module - mirrors and laser
More complex model (it looks somehow not impressive)
The creators of the project www.peachyprinter.com 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
For a kickstarter in a couple of days they collected already $ 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 almost nothing was collected.
There is no doubt that the necessary amounts will be collected, but there is a considerable spoonful of tar in our (or rather, in their) barrel of photopolymer:
- Deadline for finished printers - July 2014 ! yes here for ten months, another five new printers will be released!
- Is this printer normally shipped from Canada? here you and the Laser (in the comments on the kickstarter, the author says that this is 20 mw 405 nm laser ) and the photopolymer in the form of a liquid - will they let it through?
- Soft - the author himself calls himself an inexperienced programmer.
- The quality of the received - a big detail in their example does not look particularly high quality.
I did not write anything about "and the scanner", since the details of this promise to publish a little later.
Update:
One user in Google + published a link to the video, which was on the official channel peachy, but which was then removed from it. Presumably, because of the quality of the video (and also due to the fact that there is a lot of smoking in that video). There the module work is more visible. (from the second minute)
Ps . About the photopolymer - the author writes that a special modification of the photopolymer sold on makerjuice.com is being developed for them ; the specifications of the original polymer can be read on makerjuice.com/docs/SubG-MSDS.pdf
PPS I assume that the name Peachy is derived from Pitch - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(resin) (Peck is the residue from the distillation of coal, peat, wood tar, and petroleum resin) but perhaps that side and peach (peach) is appended. And if, as suggested, look into a banal dictionary, you can find out that “Peachy” → “A slang word for 'thats great'”.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/194646/
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