As i mentioned earlier - our current build time is 6 hours.

If you could prioritize only one of the following what would it be? Print Quality? Speed? Price?.

What are your pain points with SLA printing? What sucks about it?.

It would suck if i put in the time to write instructions, put together a BOM with sources and put it up and it not being something you guys were looking for and all that work be for naught. So i have one ask - to help me understand what you guys would like to see in Printy. We have built upon the existing marlin firmware and modified it to work in polar coordinates for the laser beam.Ĭurrently it takes around 6 hours of build time to construct it and around 30-40mins of calibration.īased on your interest i want to spend the time and make this printer become a successful open source project. Printy runs on open source software - currently we use Repetier Host and use Slic3r for slicing. The beam is controlled with the use of mirror galvonometers. The beam is focused on the resin through an acrylic sheet that is at the base of the VAT which contains the resin. Its a top down printer which prints by curing resin with a laser beam. Printy is an SLA 3D printer that has a print volume of 100mm x 100mm x 100mm. As an open source platform we want this to succeed and since the number one concern about SLA printing has been about price, this is an important metric for us. We hope to bring this number down and thus are revising the BOM and trying to finding sources for cheaper components. Right now everything for this DIY printer costs roughly $800. The number one ask has been about the BOM cost.

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