That open source hardware "Arduino" enters the 3D printer market

Popular open source hardware "Arduino"The Arduino team has become clear that it will start manufacturing and selling low-priced 3D printers.

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Arduino to sell 3D printer- $ 800 in kit form or $ 1,000 pre-assembled | Ars Technica
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The Arduino team started Italian startupSharebotAnnounced that it plans to sell low priced 3D printers of $ 1,000 (about 110,000 yen) by organizing tags.

This is the 3D printer "Materia 101" introduced by Tweet of Arduino

@ MbanziShows live on tv the preview of Arduino Materia 101 - the 3d printer to be presented@ MakerFaireRomePic.twitter.com/31jBr99NuF

- Arduino (@ arduino)2014, September 27

Materia 101 is "Arduino Mega 2560"It is the same as other Arduino products that the hardware document is opened as open source in the 3D printer.


Materia 101 adopts hot melt resin lamination method, it measures 310 mm × 330 mm × 350 mm and weighs 10 kg. The print range is 140 mm × 100 mm × 100 mm, the resolution in the X- and Y-axis directions is 0.06 mm, and the resolution in the Z-axis direction is 0.0025 mm. The filament is 1.75 mmPLAIt consumes 65 watts. The price is expected to be less than $ 1000 (about 110,000 yen) for assembled finished products and $ 800 (about 88,000 yen) for the assembled kit state.

Given that there are many cases where Arduino is adopted as a "brain" in cheap 3D printers, it can be said that it is not particularly surprising for the headquarters Arduino team to manufacture 3D printers. Since the Arduino team is supposed to pass the attitude of "open source" also at Materia 101, it is expected that this model will create more high performance 3D printers and lower price 3D printers all over the world.