cheap DIY 3d printers

Former Member over 13 years ago

what would be the absolute cheapest design to make a 3d printer? could there be a build on this?

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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to biomedroy +2

Dear Roy, I'm a mentor for a high school robotics team and as part of our off-season learning projects we are also building a MendelMax 1.5. Yesterday we got most of the electronics installed and ran a…
Vlee489 over 13 years ago +1

try http://www.solidoodle.com/
Nate1616 over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member +1

Docdavies Having built numerous 3d printers over the years including the mendelmax 1.5 I would say you should look at a self leveling bed, upgrade your belts if your using t5/ t2.5 to something like the…

Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Nate1616

i want to put the notebook on the frame of the 3d printer and expand the 3d printer by 3ft len by3ft deep by 3ft tall and add a portable hard drive to it beside the 3d scaner it the cheaper way i can go with the skills i have
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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

im a noob at this
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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

i do armor builds iam thinks about use the 3d printer for that but it use a programm of pepakura viewer that prints on card stok
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Nate1616 over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

what do you plan on using the notebook and hard drive for? I do most my modeling on my desktop then put the model on a sd card and plug into my ramps board and print from that. As far as making the printer bigger by 2' would be nice in theory but you will lose accuracy big time trying to accomplish that.

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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Nate1616

well like i said im a noob at this and dont no the limits let
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Nate1616 over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

Not a problem Billy. If you have any questions while your doing the mod just let me know. I will see what i can do for you.

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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Nate1616

ok do u have a old one that i could buy from u to lean on
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Nate1616 over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hey Billy
I currently dont have any extra printers laying around. I had one but my 3 year old son wanted it in his room. I dont think he would like me taking it away.

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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Nate1616

ya my son and daughter want to see some toys being made by one
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Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

i get the a6 ht but then i have to wait 6 to 10 weeks for it but first have to save for it and get a note book so i can have alot of op to play with
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