So this would appear to be a very cheap laser sintering metal printer on kickstarter.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/460400892/affordable-3d-metal-printer-aurora-labs
No doubt its quite an early stage machine with lots of work to be done before we’re rivalling renishaw and EOS in our garages, but I think this deserves some attention.
Background music in Kickstarters is often annoying enough, but when it drowns out the narrator? No go.
The one object that they show in the video that was actually printed from their machine looks absolutely terrible though. - http://imgur.com/5wyXFL0
It’s already passed its goal, which is superb. But I think I’ll wait a little bit.
SLS is way, way more complicated to dial in than people give it credit for. I hope these people know what they’re in for.
Wow, that turbine example is terrible, it looks like they have oxygen contamination. The sparks are a bit concerning, and it looks similar to TIG welding with weak shield gas.
@Nick_Parker SLS isn’t that bad. DMLS is insane.