Will an upcoming printer on kickstarter totally do away with filament? Instead printing directly with pellets? Could save a heck of a lot of cash!
http://bit.ly/1gZmgjZ
OK, so I see some pellets in bags, a total lack of extruder and some parts that were printed from filament…
There’s another video on their YouTube channel showing some TPU prints, it will be interesting to see what the printer is when it launches.
sigh Wake me up when this is not vaporware.
Is this not what the makibox promised?
Looks like vaporware to me. And @erik_vdzalm , yeah - MakiBox promised this a while ago, but don’t hold it against them. I sure understand now why it got pushed back, as I started working for another company that this has happened to (R&D taking back seat to shipping)
How do you do retraction on pellets or melted plastic? In the end you still need to extrude filament first. Having it be a separate tool makes more sense. And then you are back to using filament spools.
If you do not squirt out plastic when you do not want to, there is no point in a retract feature.
@NathanielStenzel , pushing out plastic requires a certain amount of pressure already built up in order to keep the stream going. Simply not pushing plastic, does not mean the plastic actually stops.
How would a person know if an item was printed from filament or pellet?
@NathanielStenzel , easy. Because they don’t actually have a working product yet.
@ThantiK If a person did have a working product, even if a crappy one, you would not be able to tell what the source plastic was. Some good extruders with bad tuning may have the same flawed output as a crappy pellet extruder. At least this is my line of thinking.
Note that I am not judging if they have a working pellet extruder (even a crappy one), but I am stating a what if.