Prototype Quick-Build, Low-Cost 3D Printer

3D Printing & Imaging Technology
Prototype Quick-Build, Low-Cost 3D Printer

Printrbot, just successfully crowd-funded by Lincoln, California resident Brook Drumm, bills itself as an all-in-one 3D printer kit that “can be assembled and printing in a couple of hours.”  Hack a Day’s Brian Benchoff gives a cogent technical analysis.  Apart from the Kickstarter itself, Mr. Drumm maintains a Flickr set, a Vimeo account, and a fledgling blog dedicated to the project.

8 thoughts on “Prototype Quick-Build, Low-Cost 3D Printer

  1. Ronnie Hinton says:

    The link to HackADay’s broken. Needs the blog.makezine.com/taken out.

    1. Sean Michael Ragan says:

      Fixed!  Thanks!

  2. Glen Searle says:

    I can see a lot of things in the Printbot that have come from open source projects. Will the Printbot be open sourced?

    1. aaron ramsey says:

      They’ve indicated that it will all be released very soon. It is still in very active development so they’ve been hesitant to release the design files until they’ve firmed everything up.

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