I´m interested in building a really small foot print printer and easy to travel

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I´m interested in building a really small foot print printer and easy to travel with. Any suggestions?

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There are a couple folding designs out there that might suit your needs. Sorry, I don’t have links ATM.

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Portabee and FoldaRap are worth looking into.

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Thanks,
FoldaRap is one of the designs I´m considering.
Just wondering if there are more printers like those out there.

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The GO! line from printrbot (delivered assembled) are theoretically portable although the medium and large versions of the v.2 designs are too big to be considered practical for travel IMHO. I have their GO! v.1 and it is about as big as I’d want to try to lug around (built from a kit but no longer available, love it).

The Portabee GO is super portable also but is not a build-your-own design either. The only build-your-own portable designs I’m aware of are the first two I mentioned.

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I thought I saw one design using aluminum extrusions that was foldable. The way it worked reminded me of the Printrbot Simple, with its cantilevered Y/Z axis.

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@Simon_Day 's design uses extrusions and looks a bit like the Bukito but I don’t believe it folds.

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The Griffin delta printer is carry-on size compatible. This design will probably be my next self built printer. The site: http://www.griffinprinter.org/

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I looked for ways to make the Bukito foldable, but never found a way to make the trade-offs acceptable. As it is, you can remove two screws and loosen a third to release the X axis and lay it flat, but given how rigid that joint needs to be, I don’t think that making it any more collapsible than that would be a good idea.

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That Partabee Go looks pretty slick!

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There’s the tantillus, too, if you’re not stuck on having it fold: http://www.tantillus.org/Home.html

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Thanks for all the options!

It really does not need to fold. I just did my version of a 3DR delta (it has the same dimensions) but I would like smoothing tinny to carry around and to show some people a working 3d printer. I will look at the options presented carefully!

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@Paulo_Goncalves I think one of the Printrbot Simple models has a handle. I really like my PB-S, and there’s a lot of community support and mods available.

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I was going to say the Tantillus and Bukito too. I have carried the Bukito around. It is fairly light and easy to take places, though not as compact as the folders.

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I really hope @Daid_Braam gets time to finish his Titan, as it is the best compromise for me!

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So much to do, so little time!

Prototype 3 TITAN is not working. Middle one http://daid.eu/~daid/20140528_181853.small.jpg
I tried to save a few bearings, but that causes the whole X/Y to grind to a hold. On the other hand, the Z stage is working fine now. Which was a problem of the Prototype 2. So I think if I put bearings in the Prototype 3 model it should work.

However, it does require a few parts that I do not know how to properly source yet. One is the Z motor of the Ultimaker2 and the other is the electronics of the Ultimaker2.
No idea on the costs, external size is 20x20x22cm for the prototype 4 drawings. Willing to share those if you are up to building it.
(Prototype 3 is 22x22x22, Prototype 2 was 20x20x20, but I ran into all kinds of trouble with the Z stage on prototype 2)

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@Jeremie_Francois asked me for the TITAN files, so I uploaded those to:

The latest version is the 200mm version.

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@Daid_Braam I just downloaded the TITAN files and it certainly looks good!

I probably won´t go that route has I´m trying to use most of my spare parts and try to source the minimum parts but it looks cool!

I will probably go with a “box” design…lets see if adapt one of the mentioned designs I add one more to the crowd!

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@Daid_Braam thanks again for your openess! Also like @Paulo_Goncalves I have lots of spare parts, so I would really like to tweak parts of it (and well, there are UM parts not yet available on the marker, right?). It is modeled with designspark, which I would love to learn… but I will have to postpone this a bit. In the sort time I know only openscad (which the previous version was modeled with). Still would buy one for a quick start if you were to sell kits :slight_smile:

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I was doing some sketches and playing with a concept in 3D and come up with a footprint of 220x220x330mm(when its not printing - Mendel style printer) with a print area of 140x140x140mm.

I will keep posting info about it - I want to do it in a record time so I can take it to a 3d printer meeting in Lisbon :slight_smile:

Lets see if I can make itI