Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer
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#2why does the site, before it finishes loading, want me download a *.torrent file?
Re: Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer
#3why does the site, before it finishes loading, want me download a *.torrent file?
I didn't experience this.
Re: Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer
#4this may be obvious to everyone else, but took me a while... stereo!
[there are two mirrors to drive (or, equivalently, a point in 2D to target with the laser) and i couldn't see how to do that with a single audio signal.]
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#5Hmm, this is pretty much getting into impulse buy territory (for a 3D printer), and it even helps with my #1 problem justifying getting one which was that I haven't really learned any 3D modeling, by being capable of scanning (though I guess you could also do something similar with a Kinect). Could anyone with more insight into these things explain further why this is unique and whether there might be drawbacks? This almost seems too good to be true.
(for background, I just want a 3D printer to tinker with, and if it works at all for $100 I'll be satisfied - I might have as much fun building it as using it)
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#6This is great stuff. I have no idea what I'd use a 3d printer for, but this guy's awesome approach to engineering has me wanting to buy one just to reward his work.
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#7I wonder how much error is introduced by the use of the headphone jack to drive the printer - you've gotta deal with line noise from the computer's sound card, mixing latency/glitches from the OS, and the device sampling rate, along with any noise introduced on the audio cable.
Does a 3D printer like this not actually require high-precision data to work correctly?
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#8Kickstarter link @ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117421627/the-peachy-pri...
This is such a cool concept -- I backed it! I do not want to highjack the conversation, but I think it is worth mentioning, that this is kind of a "grinds my gears" [1, 2] moment when someone links to a summery, which borrows the video and images of a Kickstarter campaign, you are essentially diverting the campaigns traffic, why not just link to the campaign? This article was kind enough to at least link to it in the last paragraph. This summery is currently #1 on HN, which it likely driving tens of thousands of people to this suboptimal page [3, 4].
[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Grinds%20my%2...
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHtRnOXXZ0w
[3] http://aberrant.me/front-page-of-hacker-news/
[4] http://www.backwardcompatible.net/179-traffic-hacker-news-ef...
Re: Peachy Printer - The world's first $100 3D Printer
#9why does the site, before it finishes loading, want me download a *.torrent file?
Not here (and I tried it with my sandboxed adblock-free honeyypot browser). Maybe an ad?
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#10This is a bit too good to believe, but at $100 i'll bite. I've been into 3d printing for years now, and my main concern is material. If this resin is durable, and doesn't get soft in the car on a warm day, this design could be really groundbreaking. If not, it'll be a waste of everyone's time. The quality looks pretty decent given how awful low end 3d printers can be without a ton of tinkering. My current printer cost me about 2K and ABS/PLA at $40ish/kg actually adds up when prototyping. I'd love to have something really cheap like this to test out prints before finalizing them in ABS.