What parts would I need?

Look into the RepRap project.

Really good software, probably.

You would need $1000000, an injector(to squirt out the fluid), some moving platforms, and some software

Good luck.

TheGeek56 wrote:

You would need $1000000, an injector(to squirt out the fluid), some moving platforms, and some software

So, I would need 1M when most 3D printers cost only 2K??

computerawesomeness wrote:

TheGeek56 wrote:

You would need $1000000, an injector(to squirt out the fluid), some moving platforms, and some software

So, I would need 1M when most 3D printers cost only 2K??

For someone who is in a non-factory with no experience of building one, maybe

Good luck with that.

How many things are you even trying to build right now. You have like 5 other topics about your other projects.

Here is an overview of what you'd need:
Driver coding skill
High power lasers (like those in DVD writers)
Small motors
Wire
Special 3D printing material
etc.

It would be very tough. MakerBot spent like a year with a team of 100 (I think) people making the $2000 model in stores today.

poopo wrote:

High power lasers (like those in DVD writers)

Lasers? Perhaps I'm out of the loop but what are the lasers for?

Anyway if the Makibox A6 ever comes out that'd probably be a lot cheaper. RepRap is interesting but hardly cost effective.

Flamekebab wrote:

poopo wrote:

High power lasers (like those in DVD writers)

Lasers? Perhaps I'm out of the loop but what are the lasers for?

Anyway if the Makibox A6 ever comes out that'd probably be a lot cheaper. RepRap is interesting but hardly cost effective.

Aren't the models cut with lasers? :I My school has a few 3D printers and I think one of them uses lasers, but I might be wrong.

poopo wrote:

Aren't the models cut with lasers? :I My school has a few 3D printers and I think one of them uses lasers, but I might be wrong.

What? No!

3D printers are precisely that - printers that print in three dimensions. There's things that cut with lasers, sure, but they're not 3D printers.

Think about how an inkjet printer works: it scans back and forth over the paper laying down ink in rows. Imagine instead of ink it was hot plastic and instead of just going over the paper once it did it multiple times, building on top of what went before. That's how 3D printing works. There's no cutting involved.

Here's a timelapse video to demonstrate.

That's always my idea of a 3d printer

OK, to my understanding a 3D printer is defined as:

Definition wrote:

A 3D printer is a computer aided printer, in which can print 3D objects using filament.

Filament being fine rods of (usually) plastic heated up and squirted out onto the bed in laminated layers.

In this case you are talking mainly NEMA17 Stepper Motors, a Hot end to extrude the filament, other framework parts, controller board (An example is RAMPS, for a RepRap), heat bed, metal rods, Power supply, Wire, Solder, the list can go on forever.

A good place to start for a low cost but working 3D printer is the RepRap Printrbot, with a Printrbot Simple kit at $299.

“Low cost”

TheGeek56 wrote:

“Low cost”

Who are you quoting?

He's quoting Zeusking19's post just above him, implying that $299 isn't “low cost”. Of course as it stands that's actually a very good price for a 3D printer. In time they may well be much cheaper but for now that's a very reasonable price, even if TheGeek56 feels it doesn't count.