His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Spoonless wrote:
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
$2195? Daaaamn.
I'd never looked up prices, but from how everyone talks, I thought that they were typically much more expensive than that. I guess I somehow had it in my head that you were looking at like $10k for your entry-level machine.
I think they start at a couple hundred dollars for the most basic models? Still, 2.2k is quite a big thing to give away for a relatively small competition.
And it's a pretty damn awesome thing to win.
I bought my first 3d printer, a Lulzbot AO-100 used for $600. That came with about $100 worth of filliament, and I got a very good deal because the printer had almost no hours on it when I aquired it. That one, and the new one now are whats known as a "
Fusion Deposition modeling" FDM style printer, and they range in price between about $500 to around $2k at the high end. There are some larger specialty industrial ones that go for more. Most of the really expensive 3d printers you see in office type environments are either
Stereolithography printers that use a laser to fuse either powder or liquid photosensitive resin into models, or Powder resin ink style where the printer starts with a vat of powdered plastic, prints one layer using epoxy "ink", drops a layer and puts another layer of powder over the previous layer, rinse and repeat. Those start at about $10k and go up from there. The end resulting print from one of those is generally going to be slightly nicer than a FDM style print, but the material costs are insane. Printing that trombone on a Stereolithography printer or a powder fusion printer would have been $500 for the raw materials alone instead of the $15 in plastic I used.
The most expensive and newest type of printing is
Direct metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) where a frigging huge *** laser beam melts bits of titanium, steel, or aluminum into shapes. Those start at about $200,000, but you can make any metal object as if you cast it right there in place with one.
Jophiel wrote:
I'm starting to suspect that Kao is less sincerely interested in the state of my weekend than his thread title implies.
"Anyone else just bang three supermodels on a pile of giant panda pelts?"
Hey! I always like hearing about other people weekends. IN that particular case we would of course need photographic evidence. You know, to make sure they were real panda pelts and all though...