Printing with pellets

[barry99705]

You guys see this one yet?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sc ... d-printing

[Captain Starfish]

Forgive my cynicism, but I've seen these promises before with John Buford and Makibox which originally was going to be a pellet printer, then became a filament printer with a built-in filament extruder, then became a filament printer with an optional filament extruder, then became a sodden mess of tears and regret.

Looks great but I'll hold off on the bunting, champagne and fireworks until I see one running with a few reviews, thanks.

[Jimustanguitar]

Pricey... I'd rather buy two or three more Rostocks and a filastruder

[Eric]

They're able to do it because they have a motionless extruder, so the mass of the extruding mechanism isn't an issue. However, their platform moves in all three dimensions, which means mass/motion effects on the object being printed may be an issue in some cases. The price is the real killer, since the filastruder gets basically the same result from any other printer.

[teoman]

They have used a PEI surface