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Any chance the resin/polymer will come down in price if this catches on?
I'd say that's almost inevitable.
Chemistry is a mature industry. Photopolymers are 50+ years old, and unpatented. There's no real reason to believe UV-cure resin will ever get much below $100/litre, which is a solid 10 times more expensive than ABS.
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I'd say that's almost inevitable.
Why do programmers always assume every field is just like computing? Not everything gets cheaper. Chemistry is a mature industry. Photopolymers are 50+ years old, and unpatented. There's no real reason to believe UV-cure resin will ever get much below $100/litre, which is a solid 10 times more expensive than ABS.
About what I paid for my first inkjet printer (because I couldn't afford a LaserWriter). Or another way of thinking about it -- rather than upgrading to an FX digital camera this generation, I can skip a generation, live with my insanely-good-but-not-that-insanely-good DX camera and get one of these. Obviously, the whole "giving $3000 to someone and trusting them to deliver" thing is a bit of an issue, but presumably…
The call to action link says: "Pre-Order on Kickstarter" They must have not gotten the "Kickstarter is not a store" memo. They appear to be ready to pull the trigger on their manufacturing partners, so this is sort of a "how big should we make the first run?" type of kickstarter rather than a "let's create something awesome". Details… • Stereolithography printer (laser, not extruder) • Much nicer than extruder style…
While this may not be within the stated KS rules, as an idea this sounds useful.
The main obstacle with many overseas factory-made cheap electronics projects is indeed "how big should we make the first run?"
Is this not a problem we need to solve? Look at the Raspberry Pi.
For the entrepreneur, maybe "let's manufacture something awesome" requires pre-orders. Maybe it requires committments.
We need some better way to connect consumers, entrepreneurs and factories.
Maybe KS is not it, but isn't it something we should look toward?
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Fully funded in under 12 hours. 708 hours to go. For something that is ready to enter manufacturing I think a pre-order model is appropriate. I'd be alarmed if someone used those words on an idea or something in the middle of the prototyping process. A "donate now" button for a commercial venture is an instant and permanent red flag for me.
> For something that is ready to enter manufacturing I think a pre-order model is appropriate. Do you have proof this is the case?
Good job guys! The results look amazing and the device itself looks beautiful.
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This might be a kind of dumb idea, but I would love it if somebody created a Kickstarter project to create a manufacturing and distribution plant for Kickstarter projects...(obviously, would require a huge investment for all of the machining equipment).
Actually, I'm waiting for someone to create the Kickstarter that people seem to think Kickstarter is: a way to get pre orders for a new product. I mean seriously, there are a lot of people using Kickstarter for this and now they've explicitly said that's not what it's for. So, Entrepreneurial Opportunity. There's obviously a lot of people who need this kind of "pre-order aggregator" service. So when will a motivated…
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> For something that is ready to enter manufacturing I think a pre-order model is appropriate. Do you have proof this is the case?
The video of it fully operational & functioning, perhaps?
The last 10% takes 90% of the time is true in hardware manufacturing just as much or more as it is in software.
Sad prediction: the future of 3D printing will be cheap printers [that require/are subsidized by] proprietary resins.
I actually think it could be more extreme. The printer industry is the way it is because most people don't really need one, so customers skimp instead of optimizing for long-term usage. I predict even fewer people will need devoted 3D printers in their homes - especially if there are local versions at a place like staples/kinkos.