Sculptify's 'David' 3D Printer - KS Campaign Soon - Uses Pellets instead of Filament

[JRDM]

You can also blame the "media" for giving them the outlet to pre-spam their spam.

This blog being "the media", I guess.

Well, something happend to little David on the way to the KS playground. Met Goliath maybe ?

I'm pretty sure that's a result of their choice of extrusion system. Moving the build plate is easier than moving that extruder system.

I didn't see any answers to my concerns yet. I guess there's another teaser, then the Kickstarter, assuming they answer it at all. I'd love to see them build a part with widely spaced islands on it, to see if they do retraction. I'm thinking they probably don't.

[Brian_Krassenstein]

Hey guys, Sculptify has just launched their Kickstarter campaign for their pellet 3D printer, David. The campaign can be found here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...in-3d-printing

More details on the launch can be found at an article I just wrote about the company and the printer here: http://3dprint.com/12407/sculptify-kickstarter-pellets/

[Geoff]

The concept is great, but their print quality leaves alot to be desired, and the cost of pellets is now not far off a roll of plastic, I wonder how well it goes mixing pellets?

[Feign]

If they had an example of using the ground up chunks of a failed print, then I would be all over this. But it seems to work with only very consistently sized pellets.

I suppose ease of use with flexible and rubbery materials is a definite plus, but it doesn't seem like enough to set it apart from other printers in its price range.

[bshadown]

i guess this printer will be more like a ¨testing¨ machine for future technologis, it wont be the first one out there but i guess the first one to entirely use pellets