With the current trend of most DIY/RepRap style 3D printers using FDM (fused deposited material) we were wondering how long it would take people to start playing with different technologies…. So when we saw this thing we were blown away! There’s not a lot of information available apart from what is available on Juniors blog. It appears he is using a projector to shine 2D slice profiles of the 3D part onto the base of a bed of UV curable resin. The build platform moves up and removes the part from the resin as it goes. This is kind of similar to how the V-Flash works however much simpler as there is only one motor moving the Z-axis. From what we can see in the photos the parts look great and the resolution is super fine.
Junior mentions putting the project up on a crowd funding website however that was back in April 2011 and we haven’t seen anything on IndieGoGo just yet. Fingers crossed he gets this thing up and running as it would be great to see a low cost SLA style printer hit the market.
Keep reading for photos of the printed parts…







Very very interesting – good wake up call! Thanks for sharing.