Funbot Pro all-in-one DIY 3d printer

Cliff Mellangård, Swedish 3d printing guru and creator of excellent low cost Funbot 3d printer is developing an all-in-one DIY RepRap based on Raspberry Pi 2. It has a 7 inch LCD screen and when you connect external keyboard and mouse you have a full 3d printing workstation in one machine.

Here is the Funbot Pro presentation video:




Nice work Cliff! Files for it will be probably available soon since it is still in early development stages.

Update:

Here is the first real print of FunBot Pro with further details explained by Cliff:

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FLUX multitool Delta 3d printer

Flux is a new delta 3d printer that has easily exchangeable tool heads and integrated 3d scanner. Currently available tool heads are 3d printing head and laser engraver head with several modules under development like: a dual extruder, a ceramics extruder, and a pastry extruder.

It is on Kickstarter now

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2117384013/flux-all-in-one-3d-printer-unlimited-elegant-simpl

Currently, 38 days before campaign end, it has $348,923 pledged of $100,000 goal.

Flux certainly has minimal and cool design:

Comparison chart of Flux with devices it replaces:

Flux technical specifications:

Flux company page: http://flux3dp.com/

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Lionhead Bunny 3d printer and Radiant Li software

Lionhead is 3d printer and 3d scanner hybrid machine with Radiant Li software.

Radiant Li 3D Scanning from Radiant Fabrication on Vimeo.





Radiant Li 3D Modeling from Radiant Fabrication on Vimeo.





Radiant Lionhead Electronics Assembly @ Parallax from Radiant Fabrication on Vimeo.


http://radiantfabrication.com/

http://radiantfabrication.com/pages/li


Limited information is available ...

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Full feature overview video of WASP Evo 3d printer

New update video from WASP team on their multifunctional 3d printer which shows full overview of various features including wood, PCB and aluminium milling.




http://www.wasproject.it/

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ZMorph personal fabricator 3d printer

This is one of the best 3d printer designs I saw! It looks like it has EVERYTHING and great design!

Technical specifications:

CONSTRUCTION

aluminium 6mm (precise and very rigid), other parts made of 6mm clear policarbonate and ABS

WORKING AREA 

235 x 235 x 165 mm (larger than before!)

MATERIAL 

ABS, PLA, Nylon (Taulman or other source)

NOZZLE TYPE 

interchangeable hot-ends : 0.38mm, 0.5mm

MATERIAL FILAMENT DIAMETER SUPPROTED 

3mm (1.75 in the future)
MAX. TRAVEL SPEED (TESTED) 

500 mm/s
RECOMMENDED PRINT SPEED WITH ABS 0.3mm LAYER 60 - 150mm/s depending on the quality required. Faster speeds possible with lower layer height. PLA can be printed faster too
RECOMMENDED ACCELERATION 2500 mm/s^2
MIN. LAYER HEIGHT 0.1 (ABS), 0.05 or less (PLA)

HEATED BUILD PLATFORM glass 5mm, kapton heater 200W, standard temp 120 degrees. Recommended to use with interchangeable glass pads (provided)

INTERCHANGEABLE EXTRUDERS 

plastic, ceramics, food (chocolate or paste etc.), additionally dremel mount (standard equipment only includes one plastic extruder, the rest available on thingiverse as open source)we're planning to release double material extruder - for support or multicolour printing (available end of 2013)

ELECTRONICS Sunbeam 2.0, with ARM LPC1769 processor, equipped with 5 stepper motor drivers - 3 for XYZ axis, 2 more for double-material extruder. Run by stable and robust Smoothieware (http://smoothieware.org/)
OPTIONAL LCD touch panel
FIRMWARE Smoothieware
EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS 530x555x480 mm

FUTURE PLANS:

- double extruder design, for adding second material (support or different colour) to your prints. Additional extruders and toolheads will be available in our shop.

- dedicated ZMorph software with its own unique slicing engine (totally different to other slicers, based on our own algorithm) featuring drag&drop printing, remote printer monitoring, host-less printing and more!


PRICE: 1576,25 €



ZMorph at Arena Design Fair - video from ZMorph3d on Vimeo.

http://zmorph3d.com/


It uses Zmorph clip on extruder which provides exchangeable tool-head. Here is the toolhead in printing and laser scanning configuration:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:31158

Here is the Dremel toolhead:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:46986


There is a RepRap wiki page on Zmorph extruder: http://reprap.org/wiki/Zmorph_extruder
Based on information from their web page, they want to make it open platform for tool development.

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY! I WANT ONE!

Update (28.4.2014.):

ZMorph now prints with chocolate also!

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Update on AIO Robotics all-in-one 3d printer ZEUS

Here is demonstration of its control unit with touch display that provides controls for printing. High quality of prints is also demonstrated




Here is the video with print bed auto leveling function with active probe




Initial post:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/08/aio-robotics-all-in-one-3d-printer.html

http://www.aiorobotics.com/

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FABtotum Personal Fabricator

Hybrids WILL be the new standard fro desktop manufacturing.






From product page:

FABtotum is a multipurpose tool, the first Low Cost Desktop Personal Fabrication device that can operate a wide range of Computer controlled (CNC) manufacturing processes.
Print, Cut, Mill, Scan, Manipulate. Rinse and repeat!
A seamless interaction between the physical and the digital world.
While Current 3D printers are defined as Personal fabricators, there is so much more to personal fabrication than 3d printing alone! FABtotum allows anyone to explore the endless possibilities of a multipurpose fabrication device.
Thanks to a sturdy structure and unconventional tecnical solutions FABtotum is capable of subtractive machining without compromising 3d printing volumes or printing speeds.
Switching to subtractive mode is easy: just remove and tilt the double sided printing plane and expose the milling plane with built in fixtures to secure your workpiece.
Along with 3/4 Axis Subtractive Machining, Fabtotum is capable of 3-axis hybrid Additive / Subtractive manufacturing, meaning you can work in dual mode without loosing the position or having to move the workpiece.

• 3D milling on light materials (Balsa, Foam, light wood)

• PCB milling : make your own circuit boards!

• Engraving

• 2.5 D Profiling (cutting) on light materials (balsa,Foam,Light wood)

• CNC Pre-Drilling

• 4 Axis machining on light materials.

• 4 Axis Engraving 

Digital Aquisition:
FABtotum is capable of scanning solid objects thanks to a built in laser scanner (quick scan, medium quality) and one dimension (Z) touch probe digitalizer (hi-accuracy, very slow).
Using this feature you'll be able to unlock a whole lot of potential: scan and print duplicates of solid objects, create new objects with foams or modeling clay and scan them for further editing in a modeling software of choice, or print them in additive mode or cut/mill in subtractive mode.
Most 3d scanners cannot acquire small objects (such as a coin) and a physical digitalizer cannot acquire complex objects without at least 4 axis of freedom.
FABtotum can do both.
Scanning objects means you'll never run out of stuff to print, you'll be able to experiment with shapes or reverse-engineer objects around you, scanning and then duplicating a modified version!

Specifications:

• Size: 366x366x366mm
• Printing volume (additive) : 210x240x240mm (24 % in additive mode)
• Milling Volume (Subtractive) : 210x240x[your milling bit height] mm
• Scan volume (optical/digitalizer) : as much as accesible (up to printing volume depending on the object shape)
• Scan Angular resolution: from 83 to 133 steps/degree in 1/16th microstepping mode.
• CMOS sensor: 1024x768 or above.
• 4th axis Milling angular resolution: as "Scan Angular resolution"
• Z layer height: from 0.10 to 0.4 mm 
• Z level minimum increments: encoder resolution 0,00047mm (0,47 microns) in 1/16th microstepping. (3mm pitch leadscrew / 200 steps *16 * 2 gearbox = 0,000467 = approx 0.47 microns. ,less than half a micron)
• Additive materials: PLA,ABS : built in protected material storage/coil.
• Subtractive materials: with onboard motor: Foam,Balsa,Plywood,thin Aluminium, brass alloys (PCB layer).
• Additive head: 0.35 or 0.45 or 0.5mm nozzle , Bowden extruder. 
• Subtractive tool: Onboard 30 Watt spindle. standard milling bits (3.25mm diam.)
• Additional tool: space for tools up to 60mm mounting diameter.
• Acquisition method: Laser Scanner (line laser) and Z digitizer probe
• Other systems: mechanical homing endstops, vacuum cleaner port.
• I/O : USB

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fabtotum-personal-fabricator


http://www.fabtotum.com/

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Mebotics Microfactory

I want to see it in production and on my table. Hope it will live up to the hype around it.

From video description:

We're revolutionizing personal manufacturing with this amazing all-in-one, networkable, four-color 3D printer and milling machine!
Makers making for makers: The Microfactory project began one year ago when four friends, longtime members of an independent maker space in Somerville, Massachusetts called Artisans Asylum, came together to create a better prototyping and machining tool....one that was easy to use, self-contained, and capable of a truly impressive list of tasks. They independently financed the development and testing of five full versions of the Microfactory, resulting in the exceptional product featured here. The Microfactory was entirely conceived, designed and built by people who have spent their lives around machines, who wanted to make something truly revolutionary and highly usable for makers everywhere.
Introducing the Microfactory: a networked, easy to operate, affordable, mess free, quiet, safe and fully-enclosed machine capable of:
printing functional parts in four colors or multiple materials
AND computerized etching
AND computer-controlled milling!
And check out some of the special features we've built in:
Port for a shop-vac hose so the machine "cleans up after itself" while it runs
Noise-reducing housing with safety-stop button
Full on-board computer -- no separate hardware or software needed! Connect and control through any (wired) network.
High-quality industry standard software built right in

http://www.mebotics.com/microfactory.html

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AIO Robotics all-in-one 3d printer

It will scan, print, copy AND fax. It will do it all on-board / cloud connected and it will be made from highest quality materials.
For now, it is only a graphic on a web page and kickstarter date without much additional information...

http://aiorobotics.com/

Update:
here is the video of AIO Zeus

 


Update 2:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/09/update-on-aio-robotics-all-in-one-3d.html

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