The new essential tool for every maker.
Learn how to:
• Fabricate PC boards
• Use a laser cutter and 3D printer
• Make molds
• Work with glass
• Much more!
From scotch tape to lasers, find out the tools you need to outfit your perfect makerspace.
indiegogo.com/projects/nautilus-3d-printer-dlptech
PRICE $387
BUILD VOLUME 4"×3"×4.7"
Built by makers in Beijing and aimed at a low price point, this DLP printer handles multiple resins and can hit 0.1mm to 0.01mm z-axis layer height. The kit is inexpensive compared to other printers, but you have to provide your own projector.
instructables.com/id/DIY-high-resolution-3D-DLP-printer-3D-printer
PRICE $2,362
BUILD VOLUME 3.9"×3.9"×9"
Why buy a DLP printer when you can spend a year making one? Though still tweaking the design, Tristram Budel has put complete instructions for his scratch-built DLP printer on Instructables. At 1,000‘1,500 man-hours, it’s not for beginners.
muve3d.net
PRICE $599‘$1,099 kits
BUILD VOLUME 5.7"×5.7"×7.3"
With its variety of kit options and laser-cut wooden case, you could mistake the mUVe 1 for a throwback to FFF printers from 2008. Luckily, inside is a fresh resin-curing SLA printer, and its open-source design favors easily sourced, inexpensive parts ready for tinkering, like a 50mW UV laser upgradeable to 500mW.
PRICE $1,000
BUILD VOLUME 3"×4"×5.1"
Maryland Institute College of Art student and MAKE 3D Shootout tester Anderson Ta has developed a DLP printer from off-the-shelf parts. He’s made some fantastic-looking prints and even detours into bioprinting.
PRICE $40‘$45/liter
MakerJuice’s SubG resin comes in 8 different colors and cures with DLP projectors, UV lasers, and UV LEDs. They also sell pigments so you can mix the perfect resin color. Best of all, the resin is a lot less expensive than other suppliers.
3D SCANNERS
DIMBODY
indiegogo.com/projects/dimbody-3d-desktop-scanner
PRICE $540 kit, $810 assembled
Scan volume 12"×12"×12"
From Rimini, Italy, comes this open-source, Arduino-based 3D scanner that uses a rotating base, laser line, and monochromatic camera to build 3D models from real-life objects. It’s accurate to about 400–100 microns and takes 8–24 minutes to scan an object, depending on resolution. We’re intrigued by its Arduino roots; at press time it was an Indiegogo campaign in need of funds.
Engineer and maker Rob Green uses the Tormach PCNC 770 to manufacture steering knuckles and steering mounts for the innovative RoamBoard, a four wheeled articulated skateboard that brings surfing and snowboarding to the streets.
“As an engineer, I love to create stuff. About ten years ago, two of my three boys were old enough to be into unicycles and skateboards and doing tricks on bicycles. So I asked them, ‘Hey what do you guys think about building an electric skateboard?’”
With the help of his oldest son, Green began prototyping and then manufacturing the board about three years ago. When it came time to move some of the manufacturing in-house Green chose the Tormach PCNC 770, and now has plans to move all RoamBoard manufacturing in-house.
Read the full story at: www.tormach.com/roamboard
