The Unbeatable $99 3D Printer! - Yanko Design

https://world wide web.kickstarter.com/projects/1403065126/obsidian-3d-printer-loftier-quality-sleek-and-afforda?

The 3Doodler pen is a rather fun toy. I say toy because while information technology's an extruder, it isn't capable of industrial-course printing. However, information technology'southward cheap, fun-to-use, and retails at $99. Kodama's Obsidian 3D printer is a rather capable printer. Information technology prints at a minimum resolution of 50 microns, and works with a broad range of materials. It as well costs the same amount every bit the 3Doodler pen.

Kodama has constantly wowed us with how far they tin can push button the boundaries of 3D printing. Their get-go machine, the Trinus, was designed to be a DIY printer that literally was made of 11 components that snapped together easier than an IKEA bookshelf. However, their second machine, the Obsidian, is the one worth talking about. Designed to be used out of the box, this plug-n-play printer works like a dream. It can impress in a wide range of materials, comes with a 'resume' part for power-cuts, and even with its own "dashcam" that streams progress to your telephone or tablet while allowing you to cheque and change prints from miles away.

The Obsidian printer is conveniently sized (perfect for the creative), and comes in three tiers. The basic model is capable of incredibly detailed prints and costs just twice as much as the filament you employ. The Plus and Palatial tier introduce innovative new features to the model while keeping the cost nonetheless ten times cheaper than post 3D printers. Obsidian'due south Palatial comes with the resume function, in case of ability failure, and even has a heated bed module, giving you the freedom to work with materials like ABS and Nylon. It also comes with a mounted photographic camera that live-streams your impress to you if yous're abroad and tin can even make a fourth dimension-lapse video of your impress taking place. The command panel is a Smart LCD impact-screen (with a quad-core ARM running Android) paired with a refreshing UI that allows you to work the printer like a charm, and it even extends functionality to your smartphone or tablet with a native app, allowing you to pause/resume prints on-the-go!

3D printing and crowdfunding are more than interconnected than you'd retrieve. They've both helped each other grow as big as they have and honestly, I was sitting here thinking that we'd hit saturation signal. Nonetheless Obsidian pushes the ceiling a little higher past delivering a printer that you tin can use literally out of the box, and costs less than your smartphone. Universal in every sense, the Obsidian can work with most any blazon of 3D model you lot make, whether in a software on a computer, or fifty-fifty sculpted in VR. The print quality, from what we've seen, is exquisite, and the fact that you can monitor/stream your prints from wherever you are is something anybody needs, only no printer company ever predictable. With the Obsidian, Kodama is definitely onto something big!

Designer: Michael Husmann of Kodama

BUY At present: $99 ~~$199~~