Is this a 3d printer? Foam cloud shaper? What is it :-)? It looks cool ... It additively produces an object in three dimensions ... so it IS a 3d printer!
The SCARA acronym stands for Selective Compliant Assembly Robot Arm or Selective Compliant Articulated Robot Arm. By virtue of the SCARA's parallel-axis joint layout, the arm is slightly compliant in the X-Y direction but rigid in the ‘Z’ direction, hence the term: Selective Compliant. The second attribute of the SCARA is the jointed two-link arm layout similar to our human arms, hence the often-used term, Articulated. We will see how this concept develops. Nice new innovation after Delta approach.
MakiBox A6 3d printer in development and testing phase. MakiBox is more known for their plastic pellet printers, but this A6 is also starting to looking good. It still needs more work, but I'm sure they will get it done.
Youtube user maxamillionschnell has extensive video demonstrations of the Afinia (he disabled embedding for most of the videos), here is the mechanical overview:
There is few data available on Afinia h-series, so if anybody knows more or has any experience, write it in comments or message me.
Afinia is also running a simple contest where you can win their printer, entries will be accepted from October 1 through Dec 31, 2012:
Jonathan Buford's MakiBox, 3d printer printing with plastic pellets with great potential in reducing printing material cost and recycling of old plastic.
Video with in depth technical overview of MakiBox:
PopFab is 3d printer, precision cutter and CNC mill in a briefcase. Portable miniature DIY factory created by two MIT researchers: Ilan Moyer and Nadya Peek for true mobile manufacturing. Just bring it along and print anything you need.
Update:
You can see a great talk about Making Machines that Make by Nadya Peek here: