Custom design I made myself. Very simple, cheap to make, probably not very safe but it doesn't need to be.

I'm taking some Mech. Engineering classes over the summer for college credits and the final project is to build a working prototype of something that you designed. I made a simple design of a 3D-Printer that consists of what Makerbot makes theirs out of but sans the side panels and a built-in processor. It will need to be connected to a computer that is running a program that will tell the motors how to move based on the .x3g file you give it.

The end design should cost around $300-$450 and take me roughly two or three weeks to assemble.


It doesn't need to work well, or for very long. The concept of the project is to make something from scratch that works at all. I just need one -even partially- successful print to pass the class, it could catch fire or explode after that for all I care.