Have 3D Printer, Will Travel

We keep listening to that the desktop laptop is dying — everyone wants a cellular unit like a laptop, a tablet, or a large horkin’ mobile phone. We suppose [eponra] wishes the identical issue for 3D printers, because he’s delivered strategies for “flatpack” a portable 3D printer that can fit in a spool box.

As you could picture, this isn’t heading to give you highest build volume. The printer’s folded down dimensions are 220x210x75mm. The create plate is relatively small at 120x114x144mm. Nevertheless, it does have a heated bed and an Liquid crystal display show. 1 be aware, nevertheless: you do want an external electricity source that does not fit in the box. However, [eponra] notes that with an AC-powered bed, it would be possible to get almost everything in the box.

One purpose for the compact packing sizing is that the equipment utilizes a cantilever in its place of supporting almost everything throughout. This places a restrict on bed size, but does make the machine uncomplicated and will help with the packing.

The intention is to have all the 3D printed elements printed by a further flatpack. Right now, the XY joiner is apparently hard to print and simply cannot be printed on an existing flatpack printer, in any case. Other limitations include the lack of a spool holder and various enhancements throughout the numerous versions (the current model is version 6).

There are quite a few films of the machine in procedure on the project’s main webpage. It reminds us a large amount of a Printrbot Easy, if that printer experienced been designed now. Unsurprisingly, we’ve witnessed transportable printers in advance of, like an additional just one that matches in a filament box, but prints upside down. It manufactured us wonder what is the smallest FDM printer ever crafted?