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hey guys, PLEASE go to opensauce, the mill and of course the sls pronter would go ABSOLUTLY nuts and by the way , the mill un my basement isnt quite as big, but the londlord isnt happy as well😂
Witnessing a small team of three engineers disrupt an entire industry and slashing the cost of sls 3D printing by over 50% is truly inspiring, it really motivates me to take action and create something on my own.
Witnessing a small team of three engineers build up hype for a half baked product, then sell out to an industry giant, slashing the cost of SLS printing with a coupon for a Formlabs unit, it really motivates me to take action and create something on my own.
I really like the idea of you guys doing videos like this. I would encourage you to keep it up. I would also like to encourage you to be as transparent as you possibly can about your product. In the printing community, we see a lot of over promising and under delivering and sketchy dealings with crowd funding. You have a huge opportunity here to be a juggernaut in the hobbiest 3d printer community. Please don't let us all down lol
if they filed all the patents, it is kind of open source but just not allow to use the design commercially, but it could be built privately but will be hell to source the components and debug.
Prusa's factory tour/story from a few years ago is one of my favourite 3D Printing videos for its transparency and quality. This video is just like it, and I loved every minute of it. Super excited to see the development continue, and watch you guys get the attention you deserve. All the best!
Oh come on.. "Open".. they are patenting their design thus adding another patent to the SLS technology that will need to be waited out before open hardware design is able to touch it and make it accelerate to its potential..
We have truly fallen short in nurturing and cultivating the wealth of new ideas from our younger generations. I can't help but imagine the wasted potential of all the bright and talented individuals who are stuck in situations much worse than what these two had to overcome. I believe that the pursuit of greed and dominance in this country has become more of a societal problem than a benefit. The barriers to success placed in front of our younger generation are substantial. Despite these obstacles, however, these two determined innovators have managed to slip through a crack in the barriers and create a masterpiece in an industry dominated by large companies.
I fully support your decision to patent your ideas. People that complain about it do not understand what it means to have a competitive advantage so that you can continue to grow and push out more innovations. People are ridiculous to think that when you innovate, YOU MUST give your ideas away for free... If you guys can pull this off and provide the masses with inexpensive SLS machine, i would of gained the trust that you guys know what you're doing. Im not saying its ok to be greedy, which is what most people fear you will be, but you're providing an SLS printer for 3k for crying out loud.... that speaks for itself your intentions. Excited for the future of Micronics
How does that prevent companies in places that don't recognize such IP laws from copying your designs anyway? If anything, it makes it easier for them, because now they can reference the patent material where you've described exactly how your creation does what it does. It's a trade off, it keeps western companies from copying you, in return for having to give away your secret sauce for their reference in the future.
I LOVE THIS!!! I especially love that you created a mill in your 4th floor apartment without the landlord catching you. I truly wish you guys the best! Reminds me of the early days of Formlabs and Tormach...which I quickly bought their first models. Great companies and with your passion I think you guys will be one as well. BTW I'd buy your SLS machine over any other. Cheers!
Hey, I've seen a lot of these more consumer grade printers like this disappear behind corporate buy outs, please stay the course and release this at this price point! I believe 3D printing will revolutionize households across the world if we try, but you got to resist the dollar! Consider me a first Gen buyer if you guys manage to pull this off, and I'll be here for the gen 2's, be a another Prusa, not a another GE!!
This is really great, not only will it help in a more wide spread adoption in SLS printing, it will also drive competition and further accelerate development in this technology. Great Job guys.
Thank you. This is the start of home sls printers. If I wasn't a teenager I would definitely support this. I have 2 fdm printers. I have an ender 3 clone and an ankermake m5c. The ender 3 clone is practically trash now and I got the m5c about a month ago. The m5c works great, but it isn't nearly as precise as an sla printer. From what I can tell sls is as precise as resin while being supportless with minimal post processing. It's great that home sls printers have started to become a thing.
Just ordered some parts from these guys and they are solid and accurate thanks guys first time I’ve seen held SLS parts in person so I don’t have anything to compare them to other than my plastic 3D parts and I can just say they are incredible.
This is genius, FAR beyond what I originally had in mind. If there is one improvement that can be made to this, it would be to implement a CMYK and RGB lasers into the system with a clear powder so as to mimic the use of pad printed parts. If these changes were added, you could have the ULTIMATE 3D PRINTER.
This gets me so excited to see. You guys are amazing and I can't wait for you guys to reap the rewards for your efforts. I'll do my best to spread the word
It's me again your FIRST UK CUSTOMER 😁. I liking, sharing and helping the algorithm push this. I'll be your first Kickstarter and beta tester. I'll pay the premium to support the cause. You got this! We got your back!
I am BEYOND excited for this. Not only is the product absolutely incredible, but the team is also top notch. Not to say that other company's teams in this space aren't amazing, but I think the difference is clear. Micronics is flipping the industry on it's head. Time for everyone else to play catch up.
I imagine you guys are gonna be swamped with 1) SALES 2) COMPANY BUYOUT OFFERS 3) INVESTORS 4) Can I work for your company? REQUESTS GOOD LUCK!!! A question: How does the fine detail compare to resin printers?
Industrial sls tolerance is usually around .0015-.003" ... a sla printer will likely be more accurate, but those materials aren't ideal for many applications.
You can get a high end FDM printer for that price, this is a bargain, especially considering how new it is, you guys are on the road to success. This is bambu labs level achievements
As an inventor, this is something I would really put to work. I'm highly leveraged on a product at the moment, but hopefully later this year I will be ready for one. Nice work fellas!
People are hating on the patents but you guys have been open enough on how the system works that the right people could take these ideas and make it themselves too. Obviously not your average Joe but it’s enough for a start. Not many other companies are this open on their product and I love seeing the prototyping. Makes me feel like I’m in my garage lol
Looking forward to see your videos of your machine. Nice looking machine and excited to get my hands on one for making some of the small parts we make.
To be honest, I'm more than impressed by how well-documented your construction of those machines is, and how you've learned from mistakes and iterated further. However, how do you handle the shrinking of parts, and how easy is it actually to run a print? Is it like a bamboo machine or worse? Perhaps consider doing a follow-up video where you explain everything step by step, including post-processing, etc. Because I know handling SLS powder is quite nasty, and people should see everything before you receive only negative reviews because it looked so easy in the first place in this video. 😉 Unfortunately, I can't afford this and have no space for it.
So cool to see all the protatypes and the process you went threw making it. This went from something that I was excited about but sceptical if it would be real. To now see how you got to where you are, and feeling much more confident in it launching as marketed. More companies should show the building process like this. Super excited for june!
Awesome work guys! I sent a print to be done through your website and the result was great! Definitely looking forward to your kickstarter campaign in June! Definitely would like to scoop a printer :)
Augers are cool but the olds elevator may be a route to go. Last I checked it was off patent but seems to have been renewed until November 2024. Worth taking a look at either way.
Fascinating, love your journey. I design terrain for tabletop gaming. I always had my eyes on that tech. I wish I was in a place where I could have one your machine. I just started my journey on youtube and online store.
I would be very curious what the future of your ecosystem looks like, assuming your Kickstarter goes well and you successfully bring this printer to market. Do you foresee this printer being upgradable? Or would any improvements in the design be limited to an entire new unit?
Hey guys, I see some surface quality issues on the prints shown, good surface quality is important to me, also could you post some accuracy numbers specifically related to skew between XYZ? what temperature does the chamber reach and maintain? How close can parts be placed to eachother without causing artifacts? (And how close to build walls) can you post a video of a print usimg the full build volume and printing say the maximum number of duplicate parts for bigger volume prodction of small parts?
The print chamber is heated to >150C during printing and is slowly cooled down after printing. The parts come out of the printer fully annealed so it is not necessary to re-heat them afterwards.
Wear a N95 mask and gloves. We talked a bit more about safety in our unboxing video. In general, the powder is non-toxic, but if you inhale a large about, it would cause discomfort.
This is a great video, I loved it, and please change the auger motor with a car windshield wiper motor. Much higher torque, cheaply and easily accesible
can I please get a recommendation for some sort of tutorial how to use system dynamics in an application. How its used in code etc. Its not for this use case, my professor is just mid and while I understand the general idea I don't know how to apply the knowledge.thanks.
I’m excited about this project ever since my friend told me about you guys, and even better since its a kickstarter but I’m really nervous since its a new company; would love it if your eased some of my fears in the kickstarter here if you mentioned how easy or hard it is to get replacements to the parts and stuff ? Thanks so much this might be my first 3d printer ( been wanting an sly printer for over a year)
All parts, from the main board to laser module to the stickers, will be available on our website and are user-replicable. We will be at Open Sauce so you can come and check us out if you are nearby. Of course we also have review units sent to your favorite content creators!
Obviously, I would prefer that you went to Josef Prusa route and make your base design open source but, either way I deeply respect and admire what you’re doing here! And I’m very excited to get my hands on one! And I look forward to what this is going to do to the industry
This is amazing guys! Any plan on building a machine that can print metal in the future? I'm sure there would be a lot of people interested in an affordable alternative for that...
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Can you buy third party materials?
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hey guys, PLEASE go to opensauce, the mill and of course the sls pronter would go ABSOLUTLY nuts
and by the way , the mill un my basement isnt quite as big, but the londlord isnt happy as well😂
Can it print gastight like sla ?
I want this...please tell me you will send a unit or two out to major TH-camrs to prove the machine is real.
Witnessing a small team of three engineers disrupt an entire industry and slashing the cost of sls 3D printing by over 50% is truly inspiring, it really motivates me to take action and create something on my own.
And now that you finally have SLS at your disposal, it's never been easier 😉😉
Yeah... You're the GOATs 🎉🎉🎉
That's the spitit 🦾
Witnessing a small team of three engineers build up hype for a half baked product, then sell out to an industry giant, slashing the cost of SLS printing with a coupon for a Formlabs unit, it really motivates me to take action and create something on my own.
I really like the idea of you guys doing videos like this. I would encourage you to keep it up. I would also like to encourage you to be as transparent as you possibly can about your product. In the printing community, we see a lot of over promising and under delivering and sketchy dealings with crowd funding. You have a huge opportunity here to be a juggernaut in the hobbiest 3d printer community. Please don't let us all down lol
lifting the steel plate with the standing desk killed me 😂😂😂
Now this is some awesome inspiring content!
right! dude... insta buying this on kick.
You guys should come to Open Sauce next month, this would steal the show
Maybe at Closed Sauce.
Could be also called IMTS.
Man, sure is a great idea to bring a proprietary printer to an open source convention
At least it's a proprietary that doesn't cost 50k
No, don't do that.
if they filed all the patents, it is kind of open source but just not allow to use the design commercially, but it could be built privately but will be hell to source the components and debug.
Prusa's factory tour/story from a few years ago is one of my favourite 3D Printing videos for its transparency and quality. This video is just like it, and I loved every minute of it. Super excited to see the development continue, and watch you guys get the attention you deserve. All the best!
Love how open and technical you guys are. Looking forward to hopefully getting one for myself!
Oh come on.. "Open".. they are patenting their design thus adding another patent to the SLS technology that will need to be waited out before open hardware design is able to touch it and make it accelerate to its potential..
We have truly fallen short in nurturing and cultivating the wealth of new ideas from our younger generations. I can't help but imagine the wasted potential of all the bright and talented individuals who are stuck in situations much worse than what these two had to overcome. I believe that the pursuit of greed and dominance in this country has become more of a societal problem than a benefit. The barriers to success placed in front of our younger generation are substantial. Despite these obstacles, however, these two determined innovators have managed to slip through a crack in the barriers and create a masterpiece in an industry dominated by large companies.
I fully support your decision to patent your ideas. People that complain about it do not understand what it means to have a competitive advantage so that you can continue to grow and push out more innovations. People are ridiculous to think that when you innovate, YOU MUST give your ideas away for free... If you guys can pull this off and provide the masses with inexpensive SLS machine, i would of gained the trust that you guys know what you're doing. Im not saying its ok to be greedy, which is what most people fear you will be, but you're providing an SLS printer for 3k for crying out loud.... that speaks for itself your intentions. Excited for the future of Micronics
How does that prevent companies in places that don't recognize such IP laws from copying your designs anyway?
If anything, it makes it easier for them, because now they can reference the patent material where you've described exactly how your creation does what it does.
It's a trade off, it keeps western companies from copying you, in return for having to give away your secret sauce for their reference in the future.
I LOVE THIS!!! I especially love that you created a mill in your 4th floor apartment without the landlord catching you. I truly wish you guys the best! Reminds me of the early days of Formlabs and Tormach...which I quickly bought their first models. Great companies and with your passion I think you guys will be one as well. BTW I'd buy your SLS machine over any other. Cheers!
Engineer/Entrepreneur love to see this, will buy as soon as available.
Hey, I've seen a lot of these more consumer grade printers like this disappear behind corporate buy outs, please stay the course and release this at this price point!
I believe 3D printing will revolutionize households across the world if we try, but you got to resist the dollar!
Consider me a first Gen buyer if you guys manage to pull this off, and I'll be here for the gen 2's, be a another Prusa, not a another GE!!
Today I found out Micronics is now on that list.
@@KentoCommenT We still have hope, as SLS4ALL is doing well
Update, they fucking sold out and are spineless, just another day for the big guys.
This is really great, not only will it help in a more wide spread adoption in SLS printing, it will also drive competition and further accelerate development in this technology.
Great Job guys.
Thank you. This is the start of home sls printers. If I wasn't a teenager I would definitely support this. I have 2 fdm printers. I have an ender 3 clone and an ankermake m5c. The ender 3 clone is practically trash now and I got the m5c about a month ago. The m5c works great, but it isn't nearly as precise as an sla printer. From what I can tell sls is as precise as resin while being supportless with minimal post processing. It's great that home sls printers have started to become a thing.
Just ordered some parts from these guys and they are solid and accurate thanks guys first time I’ve seen held SLS parts in person so I don’t have anything to compare them to other than my plastic 3D parts and I can just say they are incredible.
Glad you liked them 😉😉
This is genius, FAR beyond what I originally had in mind. If there is one improvement that can be made to this, it would be to implement a CMYK and RGB lasers into the system with a clear powder so as to mimic the use of pad printed parts.
If these changes were added, you could have the ULTIMATE 3D PRINTER.
I love that you shared this whole journey, that's fantastic
Go Badgers! Another great idea coming out of Wisconsin. Nice job guys. Looking forward to supporting you when the Kickstarter launches in June.
This gets me so excited to see. You guys are amazing and I can't wait for you guys to reap the rewards for your efforts. I'll do my best to spread the word
It's me again your FIRST UK CUSTOMER 😁. I liking, sharing and helping the algorithm push this. I'll be your first Kickstarter and beta tester. I'll pay the premium to support the cause. You got this! We got your back!
😘😘
For sure you guys rock the 3D printing space. Keep up the momentum.
I love seeing the internal process, congratulations on this achievement
Incredible!!!!
Was the "concept" always to sell out?
You guys are brilliant. Love the videos. Amazing the depth of decisions to be made to create a 3D printer.
I love this video! Nerds forever!!!!
micron range?
I am BEYOND excited for this. Not only is the product absolutely incredible, but the team is also top notch. Not to say that other company's teams in this space aren't amazing, but I think the difference is clear. Micronics is flipping the industry on it's head. Time for everyone else to play catch up.
This is really great and I am super happy with the print quality of the part I ordered.
Well done boys! Good luck on the sales! Hope it does well. I’m following your progress.
This is how you market to makers. Looks like you have a solid plan and product. Congrats on your current and future success!
unreal job. Revolutionize this field plz!!! your team is blessed with incredible ingenuity and perseverance.
I imagine you guys are gonna be swamped with 1) SALES 2) COMPANY BUYOUT OFFERS 3) INVESTORS 4) Can I work for your company? REQUESTS GOOD LUCK!!! A question: How does the fine detail compare to resin printers?
Industrial sls tolerance is usually around .0015-.003" ... a sla printer will likely be more accurate, but those materials aren't ideal for many applications.
@@zomie1 for +20.000€ i want 0 tolerance. But for 3.000€ a 0,02mm tolerance is perfect
While I'm not on the market for a 3k printer right now, it is *so cool* to hear about the process of making this! Good luck!
You can get a high end FDM printer for that price, this is a bargain, especially considering how new it is, you guys are on the road to success. This is bambu labs level achievements
As an inventor, this is something I would really put to work. I'm highly leveraged on a product at the moment, but hopefully later this year I will be ready for one. Nice work fellas!
this is so dope. hope you guys crush it. congrats on such an accomplishment this far!
Really awesome! Super cool to see a small team make something so great. Best wishes to this project of yours
As a partially colorblind person I love the pattern markings on the ribbon cable here 4:26, I wish something like that was more common!
People are hating on the patents but you guys have been open enough on how the system works that the right people could take these ideas and make it themselves too. Obviously not your average Joe but it’s enough for a start. Not many other companies are this open on their product and I love seeing the prototyping. Makes me feel like I’m in my garage lol
Don't forget, more brands with the same product brings the market forward.
i didnt want this video to end!
Looking forward to see your videos of your machine. Nice looking machine and excited to get my hands on one for making some of the small parts we make.
To be honest, I'm more than impressed by how well-documented your construction of those machines is, and how you've learned from mistakes and iterated further.
However, how do you handle the shrinking of parts, and how easy is it actually to run a print?
Is it like a bamboo machine or worse? Perhaps consider doing a follow-up video where you explain everything step by step, including post-processing, etc. Because I know handling SLS powder is quite nasty, and people should see everything before you receive only negative reviews because it looked so easy in the first place in this video. 😉
Unfortunately, I can't afford this and have no space for it.
Already did a video on that th-cam.com/video/SupuCvfviWQ/w-d-xo.html
So cool to see all the protatypes and the process you went threw making it. This went from something that I was excited about but sceptical if it would be real. To now see how you got to where you are, and feeling much more confident in it launching as marketed. More companies should show the building process like this. Super excited for june!
Awesome work guys, rooting for you
Is there any chance you will be coming to Formnext 2024 in Frankfurt?
I just want to say WOW and thank u for this great pice of art, that will change the world!
Awesome work guys! I sent a print to be done through your website and the result was great! Definitely looking forward to your kickstarter campaign in June! Definitely would like to scoop a printer :)
As a madison resident. do you know if they still have your prototype at the makerspace?
Yup
Augers are cool but the olds elevator may be a route to go. Last I checked it was off patent but seems to have been renewed until November 2024. Worth taking a look at either way.
Very inspiring work guys! Congrats on such an amazing machine!
Incredible work guys.
Love it. Definitely need one in my studio.
Awesome guys. Just awesome. Brilliant work.
woahhhh!!!! that's awesome.
I would be very curious to see how this printer would fair with miniatures. it would be a niche use case, but it would be cool to know that it could.
Here from Strangpart. And want to say, Henry !!!!! you look as I hear in Scott vids.
This is awesome, keep it up. Ill be on the kickstarter.
This is amazing
You. Guys. Rock.
This is wildly amazing
Amazing, thanks for the super interesting information!
Good luck!
Really cool video! Love seeing the design processes.
Subscribed! These process videos are excellent. At $3k SLS is outside my enthusiasts budget, but I'ma keep watching. 👍
an SLS printer for $3K is exciting, looking forward to it!
Fascinating, love your journey. I design terrain for tabletop gaming. I always had my eyes on that tech. I wish I was in a place where I could have one your machine. I just started my journey on youtube and online store.
I would be very curious what the future of your ecosystem looks like, assuming your Kickstarter goes well and you successfully bring this printer to market. Do you foresee this printer being upgradable? Or would any improvements in the design be limited to an entire new unit?
Very excited for this!!
I will definitely be backing this !
Great work! You should bring metal 3D printing to hobbyists next!
I wish you good luck! Wish you to stay focused on your targets. Hope you will succeed!
Keep up the good work!
How can it handle powders that oxidize? Does it have inert gas control system?
UW Madison FTMFW! Awesome, very interested in picking one of these up.
This is the way
great work guys
lol about the mill on the 4th floor
Great, now I'm thinking of selling my CNC for this... Well done!
Hey guys, I see some surface quality issues on the prints shown, good surface quality is important to me, also could you post some accuracy numbers specifically related to skew between XYZ? what temperature does the chamber reach and maintain? How close can parts be placed to eachother without causing artifacts? (And how close to build walls) can you post a video of a print usimg the full build volume and printing say the maximum number of duplicate parts for bigger volume prodction of small parts?
this is such a cool video ❤
I really hope it works out for you guys, looking forward to updates
Can you reheat the parts to make them stronger?, wish there was a way to do that at home
The print chamber is heated to >150C during printing and is slowly cooled down after printing. The parts come out of the printer fully annealed so it is not necessary to re-heat them afterwards.
how is the software ready ?
Love your product, and approach to introducing it. One thing I haven't seen mentioned is the BUILD VOLUME?
how do you ensure the safety during printing and postprocessing?
Wear a N95 mask and gloves. We talked a bit more about safety in our unboxing video. In general, the powder is non-toxic, but if you inhale a large about, it would cause discomfort.
Mycronic is a company formerly known as Micronic laser systems. They produce some kind of semicundoctur photoedging stuff.
Any more info on the CNC mill you built? Was it based off an existing design or entirely your own?
Entirely our own, since we put it together from one-off "scrap" parts.
What materials can you print in?
They discuss the materials in their other videos.
What material are you able to print?
Love it!
How/where did get the funding/financing for the R&D as s it definitely doesnt look cheap ?
Very interesting to discover the genesis of your journey!
This is a great video, I loved it, and please change the auger motor with a car windshield wiper motor. Much higher torque, cheaply and easily accesible
can I please get a recommendation for some sort of tutorial how to use system dynamics in an application. How its used in code etc. Its not for this use case, my professor is just mid and while I understand the general idea I don't know how to apply the knowledge.thanks.
I’m excited about this project ever since my friend told me about you guys, and even better since its a kickstarter but I’m really nervous since its a new company; would love it if your eased some of my fears in the kickstarter here if you mentioned how easy or hard it is to get replacements to the parts and stuff ? Thanks so much this might be my first 3d printer ( been wanting an sly printer for over a year)
All parts, from the main board to laser module to the stickers, will be available on our website and are user-replicable. We will be at Open Sauce so you can come and check us out if you are nearby. Of course we also have review units sent to your favorite content creators!
@@micronics3d thanks for easing my fears I can’t wait for the kickstarter 💖 unfortunately I live in Kuwait so it’ll be difficult to come to the event
Awesome story
You planning on doing a metal SLS printer at some point as well?
Obviously, I would prefer that you went to Josef Prusa route and make your base design open source but, either way I deeply respect and admire what you’re doing here! And I’m very excited to get my hands on one! And I look forward to what this is going to do to the industry
This is amazing guys! Any plan on building a machine that can print metal in the future? I'm sure there would be a lot of people interested in an affordable alternative for that...
What's the build volume?
This is awesome!