Game changer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74BjdHDJeE0
Just looks like a standard sla printer to me. I find it odd though that it doesn’t have one of those orange uv shields. I’m guessing that would affect the print quality and the life of the resin in a bad way…
It’s quite different from what I understand. From the build method to the time for build it’s revolutionary imo.
http://carbon3d.com/
O yeah your right! My bad. they created a whole new technology that seems promising. Hope it’s successful!
Do you ask that because of the volume of liquid resin @travis_serio ? What limitation are you anticipating?
Agreed that their current demos raise speculation. Will be interesting to see where this goes…
You don’t get that size of an A round from someone like Sequoia by smoke an mirrors. Rather than relying on the demos and the site to make comparisons, the patents are available to make a more informed opinion as to the capabilities of the hardware. As for material, I’d think it will be like other high end machines and be proprietary.
As a whole little VC money, let alone a round that big, is going to 3D printer startups. The bubble is in the consumer and low end space and not the commercial space and with the exception of Makerbot, the deals are more hype than money. IIRC Pirate got a small round as did Form Labs. The rest of it is crowd funding and friends and family money. The money and bubble is around IoT, apps and the so called “sharing” economy. The staff seems to be mostly from academia and the tech space and not from manufacturing. My guess is the exit strategy is to flip it to someone like Stratasys or 3DS or perhaps license the technology to interested parties.
Commercial additive apps have been around 30+ years. This is just a step toward that end. There is a demand for small, intricate molded parts that don’t have the associated tooling costs and/or can’t be tooled with tradtional processes. If you need solid primatives this process may be more expensive than simple tooling and low volume injection, even something like a Morgan. You can do small, easy solids at Techshop.