Open Source SLA 3D Printer
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Contents
Basics
- Part of the Open Source Digital Fabrication Construction Set
- A SLA or Stereolithography printer
- Uses a light curable resin and a laser/projector to make parts
- Can produce extremely small layer heights, and thus far higher print resolution than extrusion based 3D printers
- Can be a bit of a mess to work with due to the UV light issues + messy resins
- Also is quite costly + hard to recycle materials due to the chemical change used as opposed to FDM's physical change
Used For
- EXTREMELY precise parts
- Personalized Medical Devices + Implants
- Things with very interesting mechanical/thermal/optical properties (Thanks to the wide variety of resins)
- VERY fast prints
Industry Standards
Formlabs
- Consists of the Form 1, the Form 2, and the Form Cell (Also Form Wash + Form Cure if you are fancy) (This company is also making the Fuse 1 (A SLS Machiene, see Open Source Plastic SLS Machiene))
- Formlabs' Main Site
Carbon 3D
- Carbon 3D's Main Site
- The TED Talk Given About The M1 Printer Before it's Release
- A Tested Tour + Interview with a Carbon 3D Representative
- Like the Form 1 or 2 but MUCH faster
Existing Open Source Designs
- Need to check if it is FULLY open source, but the Peopoly Moai Kit is pretty good:
Peopoly Moai
- Peopoly's Main Site
- Introductory Video by Matterhackers
- Makermuse's Review or the Peopoly Moai
- 3D Printing Nerd's Review or the Peopoly Moai
Minimum Viable Product
- Modular
- Expandable
- Can use a variety of resins
- Safe (IE all lasers are contained
- Efficient (in resin waste)
- Clean (Workflow similar to form cell
- Fast
- Accurate (what resolution, this needs to be determined)
- Uses pure gcode like the Moai