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Dear Calvin,

Since you are in Hong Kong, can you even distribute via China more cheaply than we can in Canada/us? Isn't there trade agreements basically subsidizing shipping from China? Like...

Hello fellow backers!

My peachy is here! Thanks to the amazing guys at peachy for the incredible effort they made to bring this invention to my home!!! I'll be interested in what thinks you...

Yes, but it cures slower than the commercial resins, but the plus side is it is biodegradeable and non-toxic.

Probably would be really cool to add partially cured latex microparticles, which when combined with the acrylic resin would form a tougher material overall and less brittle. Even add a third...

The peachy printer and the team behind it are incredibly innovative beyond description. I've seen scientific papers being published in Nature which only report on some of the innovations built into...

It absorbs UV light and then gives it's energy to the resin to start polymerization, either directly or through another radical generator like benzoyl peroxide.

should be fine, just make sure you have proper ventilation because some resins are more volatile and stinky than others. Also wear nitrile gloves to protect your skin and you probably need an...

Wow Rylan, i never imagined how involved it is to come up with a support structure or I probably never would have suggested it! It is very impressive so far what you are engineering to make this...

Hey Ryan, congrats on the progress keep up the great work!!! I found some cool molecules like dna which would be a challenge for any other !...

Should be good, but if you are looking to do a lot it may cost. May be worth seeing if you can make your own casting resin for cheaper ?

Not one I've fully tested, but if you can get a hold of some methyl methacrylate and benzophenone you can make it by mixing in proportions of about 20:1 from what I've read. You also need to scrub...

If you can get a hold of some styrene or methacrylate you can use a cheap photoinitiator and make like 1L of resin for a few bucks.

Hey everyone, I was really interested on the discussion of troubleshooting tools. At the end Rylan mentioned that the audio latency may be causing issues. I have been looking into this issue for...

That's perfect for the interdisciplinarity needed for this type of development. I'm a polymer process chemist by training, and spent most of the last 15 years in a lab making new polymers and...

Also check this amazing wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopolymer

Its a good foundation, I'm probably going to try adding specific sub-pages linked to that article which...

I have a working resin using virgin flax oil and a non toxic catalyst. However I'm trying to make a faster curing catalyst by tweaking some of the properties. I'll be testing new versions this week....

Speaking of oil barons, there are cheap resins you can make starting with styrene or methyacrylates which are really really stinky! (not advised without proper ventilation!) Then any photoradical...

Hemp is the greatest substance ever discovered, but the oil barons were so fearful of it's potential to revolutionize the world that they enslaved us to their oil empire by making all hemp variations...

Great well we can always just post to the peachy printer forum and make a disclaimer *resin research project* just so people who don't care about it won't get turned off by chemistry jargon! I'll...

I actually haven't yet, It would be really cool to link up with more interested people and sort of form a club to motivate this type of research. There is so much ground to cover, but alot of amazing...

Well you would need then to make an epoxy from the flax first using a catalyst and add a photocatalyst to make a resin for peachy printer, and it wouldn't need any air to cure because it is already...

I talked to the owner of manitoba harvest, and he said he sells hemp oil at 1$ per liter. Hemp oil can be converted to an epoxy resin in air using a non-toxic manganese catalyst (like manganese...

Yes all good ideas!!! I'm trying to make a bioresin from flax and hemp oils. We need to look into these things more but very time consuming to test all the new ideas. I'm trying to make my own resin...

Good point I agree! I would be able to also hook up a pully to the lazy Susan for spinning and that would probably work better. I will try it out this week. Is the software available now?

I was wondering would we be able to mount a webcam on a rotating arm to get all the angles needed? I took apart an old inkjet printer and found a nice binary encoded wheel and DC motor I can mount a...