The Chinese 3D printer company, MakeX, has brought its desktop DLP 3D printer, the M-One, to Kickstarter. For early adopters, the M-One comes is at almost half the price of the Form1+ stereolithography 3D printer. Could this be the 3D printer that finally brings resin platforms into the home?
The M-One is an open source DLP 3D printer and the manufacturers of the M-One aren’t just okay with makers cracking open their machines and trying to make them work better, they’re practically encouraging it.
Early bird packages on Kickstarter will get backers an M-One, a bottle of resin and a finish kit for only $1700.00, while the regular packages will go up to $2000.00.
The M-One will also come with very robust software options according to the company. The Hollow Function will easily hollow your model to a specified thickness in order to reduce the amount of resin used. You can also use the Support Generator, which will automatically generate the best support structures to ensure the highest detailed prints.
Purchasers of this system will also be able to use any third party resins on the market. In addition to the printer hardware being open source, the control system will also be completely open source, which means that experienced users can modify every single function of the M-One.
The print bed is a respectable 150 x 110 x 160 mm and will print in layers of 20 microns in thickness with a print resolution of 150 microns. The print detail looks to be just as good as any of the other desktop 3D printers that use photoreactive resins.
