This summer, Kudo3D hired two extremely talented interns from UC Berkeley and graciously allowed me to put them to work on open source 3D printing software for photopolymer resin printing.
This is a bit of a preview of the work that they did, adding new capabilities to Photonic3D (https://photonic3d.com) to flip, translate, and preview positioning on the printer. They also are nearly complete in implementing an integration with @Sebastien_Mischler 's SLAcer.js (http://lautr3k.github.io/SLAcer.js/) where STL slicing can be offloaded to a browser and then sent back to Photonic3D running on a Raspberry Pi.
I am a believer in open-source tools for 3D printing. and was pretty disappointed this year in seeing a key piece of software used in DLP resin printing become “un-open-sourced”, complete with a swarm of takedown notices across the Internet. Perhaps, we as a community are partly responsible for it since only a single person ever contributed to that project.
But today, I’m hopeful that there is a bright future for a more vibrant resin printing community as well.
