Cheap photopolymer resin - the future for SLA printers?
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arduino-novice
Feb 23, 2013, 5:20:45 AM2/23/13
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I just saw the Bucktown Polymers website:
http://bucktownpolymers.com/polymer00.html
that sells visible and UV-curable polymers for USD 200 per gallon (3.8L) which translates to only USD 52 per litre. So if in the next year or two, more open-source SLA printers (such as the b9creator) can be adapted to use this kind of polymers, then the cost barrier of the *material* can be easily removed and could lead to mass adoption of SLA printers :)
Mechanically, don't you think the mechanical parts of the SLA printer is simpler? The platform only needs to move in the Z direction, and the projector (similar to the overhead projector) just project the image of the current slice onto the bottom of the platform. Therefore the X and Y mechanical parts are totally eliminated. Am my understanding of the SLA mechanism correct?
http://bucktownpolymers.com/polymer00.html
that sells visible and UV-curable polymers for USD 200 per gallon (3.8L) which translates to only USD 52 per litre. So if in the next year or two, more open-source SLA printers (such as the b9creator) can be adapted to use this kind of polymers, then the cost barrier of the *material* can be easily removed and could lead to mass adoption of SLA printers :)
Mechanically, don't you think the mechanical parts of the SLA printer is simpler? The platform only needs to move in the Z direction, and the projector (similar to the overhead projector) just project the image of the current slice onto the bottom of the platform. Therefore the X and Y mechanical parts are totally eliminated. Am my understanding of the SLA mechanism correct?
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