Just put together a sort of mini review on the Formlabs Form1.

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Just put together a sort of mini review on the Formlabs Form1. Includes my 9mm tall Zombie Hunter. CnC always welcome.
http://hardwired.cc/?p=470

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Interesting. Thank you.

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The mini zombie hunter is impressive.

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This is incredible. I finally know what my company needs.

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Very nice to finally see some information coming out regarding these! Next time someone asks about the Form 1, I’ll point them to your page.

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I always feel the urge to bring attention to the b9creator when I read about the Form1… Better output(50µm xy resolution vs 300µm), a tad cheaper when bought as a kit (ok, $1700 more than F1 when assembled),
faster (depending on the model) and open source(!)

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I always feel the urge to bring attention to the mUVe from makerjuice. :slight_smile:

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Anybody made any complete comparison between these machines?

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Thanks for the writeup, good insight

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DLP based SLA machines seem like such a hack to me and while the B9 might be open source, have you ever seen someone make one from scratch? Hopefully the Make crew did a side by side b/c I’d like to know about the layer times. I suspect they are about the same or slightly favor the Form 1 b/c of the UV laser. Overall I’d like to see the DIY group latch on to SLA and see what we can do with it. The Form 1 is outstanding for a first-gen machine. As always, early adopters will be punished…

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None that look like a b9, but some that work like one. I’m building one myself currently with @Mike_Joyce 's sliding mechanism.
Layer times vary extremely, depending on the model and the resin. A well running b9 with makerjuice or spot-a materials resin seems to need ~5s for a 50µ layer.
As for hack… well with quality like that, the looks of the machine don’t really matter to me :slight_smile:

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