Updated Design

Quite a few people made some suggestion on the need to have a bigger resin cartridge or the ability to change different resign. So we made some modification to the 3D Printer so now the resin cartridge will be based on 500ml instead of 300ml. The location of the resin cartridge would also be more user friendly and allow people to use other available resins in the market.

It's not much different from the previous design, but we think this give the unit a cleaner look...

 

MiiCraft™ Features

Thanks everyone for all your interest and inquires via email and blog comments. We have found ourselves a partner to manufacture and assemble MiiCraft™ 3D Printer for us. We have started tooling for our design and target to have samples ready by middle of June. We will be offering our 3D Printer at price of USD 1,999

We plan to launch a campaign at Indiegogo to seek people's help in covering some of the upfront tooling costs within next couple of week. Of course there will be additional perks that will be available in our campaign.
 
Many of you asked for additional details on our printer, here are some of the key features of MiiCraft™.

MiiCraft™ 3D Printer Features:

• One of the smallest All-In-One 3D Printer kit in the market
• Combines 3D Printer, Post Curing Device and Resin Cartridge into "ONE" singe unit

• Automatic Resin Supply System
• Sensors will detect resin level in the reaction tank and pump resin into the reaction tank
• Ability to withdraw resin from reaction tank back into resin cartridge for ideal storage
• Teflon based Peeling System
• Lower peeling force during build process and increase success rate when printing models
• Sturdy and Robust mechanical design
• Ensures an improved and consistent performance

• Open Source firmware and software
• Arduino Mega 2560
• Python based software (controller and slicer)
• Hardware Spec.
• X/Y Resolution: 450ppi (56 micron)
• Z-Axis (single layer thickness): 0.1mm  (100 micron)
• Hardware can support up to 0.005mm (5 micron)

• Build Speed: 2cm per hour
• Up to 3cm per hour possible for some models
• Footprint: 43mm x 27mm x 180mm
• Full Kit Dimensions: 20.5cm (W) x 20.8cm (L) x 33.5cm (H)
• Est. Resin Cost: USD 0.25 per gram
• 3D Printer Cost: USD 1,999
• Est. Post Curing Device: USD TBD

Eiffel Towers

Our own Eiffel Towers Miniatures

Model Details:

Resolution: 450ppi

Z-Axis: 0.1mm

Printing Time: 160 min @ 2cm per hour

Eiffel Tower Dimension: 24mm x 24mm x 53mm

Edit: The model is designed by Pranav Panchal., downloaded from GrabCAD.

3D Printer Kit Design

Thanks everyone for all the positive response. Many people are wondering what will our MiiCraft 3D Printer Kit look like, well here it is.

This design will be the one that we are going into production with. The complete 3D Printer Kit includes: 3D Printer, Post-curing and Resin tank. We're still targeting to make this available before end of June. We haven't decided on how to make it available for purchase yet, Indiegogo, distributors or MiiCraft blog are some of our options. But if you are interested in getting one, please feel free to drop us a line at miicraft229@gmail.com and we'll contact you when the 3D Printer Kit is available.

Detail pictures of 3D Models

Here are some close up picture of the models that we printed out previously. We're currently using DLP Pico Projector in our 3D printer to create our models and this allow us to get 450ppi in resolutions on these models.

New Transparent Models

Apologizes for the lack of update.

We have been busy working on our high resolution 3D Printer evaluation kit. We are hoping to make these 3D Printer evaluation kit available for the public around June of this year for around USD 2,000 per unit. We're in process of finalizing our evaluation kit design and should be able to share some of our concept prototype drawing in April. The schedule is tight but we should be able to accomplish it with some sleepless nights =P

Previously, all our resin are blue in color. Fortunately, we were able to get our hands on some new resins to try. This time they are transparent ^^ and luckily they work well with our 3D printer.

Hollow Sphere

Our Hollow Sphere