Is SLA / Resin printing the future?

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Give it 1-2 years and you don't SLA will be in the sub 1k range?

1-2 years? I'd say less than a year. The LumiFold is less than $600, combine that with a $300 projector and you're still under that price point. There is also the iBox Nano at $300 (with a tiny build volume) and the Peachy Printer at $99 (if you're up for an assembly and calibration challenge) which both might be out later this year. (the Peachy will probably be out before the iBox.)

Here's some simple math. At $100/gal, a gal of UV resins will be 9-10lb/gal. 10lbs is roughly 4.5kg. $100/4.5 is $22.5/kg. that's cheaper than what I've seen for 1kg of ABS or PLA.

A better way to do the conversion is that 1 liter of fresh water is 1 kg...
The cheapest I've ever found is $55 per liter, so roughly $50 per kilogram (resin is a little bit denser than fresh water).
More expensive than cheap filament, but certainly not as bad as the brand-name stuff.