The Sinclair ZX10 of the printing age? (You whippersnappers might not know,

3D Printing HercuLien and Eustathios
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The Sinclair ZX10 of the printing age?
(You whippersnappers might not know, but when Ataris and Commodores were going for $400 to $800, a nutbar from the UK brought out a personal computer for $100. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81)

The m3d making records on kickstarter seems like it’s cut from the same cloth. One of the things I hadn’t seen yet in the hype was a plain document explaining their goals and methods. There’s definitely some interesting stuff here, but like the $100 Personal Computer, it’s build volume is a bit smaller than I’m interested in at this time.)

Here’s the whitepaper: http://www.printm3d.com/M3D-The_Micro-How_We_Did_It.pdf

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One of my fist computers was a self-built Timex/Sinclair ZX-81. I wrote about it with a comparison to the marvelous RasPis (another UK product) here: http://www.stemulate.org/2013/03/17/raspberry-pi-brings-memories-zx81/