{"id":158,"date":"2012-10-11T15:50:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T15:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/10\/11\/neat-a-whole-new-angle-on-consumer-grade-3d-printing\/"},"modified":"2017-11-14T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T21:18:20","slug":"neat-a-whole-new-angle-on-consumer-grade-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2012\/10\/neat-a-whole-new-angle-on-consumer-grade-3d-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"Neat! A Whole New Angle on Consumer-Grade 3D Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we were working on putting together our Printrbot<\/a> kit the other day, one of the guys mentioned this whole new tack on consumer-grade desktop 3D printing. Instead of building up parts via fused deposition modeling (which, in this case, means running ABS plastic feedstock–which looks like weedwhacker line–through a hot point that layers up your form using a rig that’s a lot like a pen-plotter), it uses stereolithography<\/a>: Your part is super-quickly cured out of a bath of liquid, ultraviolet-sensitive resin by a UV laser beam. Very high resolution, crazy-slick tech–but well out of our price range. Anyway, he followed up with a link today, which I thought was worth sharing just to show that there’s more than one way to skin this cat. I’m increasingly wary of product-based Kickstarter projects, but this seemed too neat to ignore.
\nFORM 1: An affordable, professional 3D printer by Formlabs \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a>
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