3D printed open source design. Vases, bracelets, cups and so on. Made on demand, paid per minute…
Joris van Tubergen has a great concept, he prints his designs while you wait.
With a modified 0.8mm nozzle, he prints thick single walled objects, really fast, making it possible to wait for it.
If you’re in the neighbourhood you can visit Joris at Magna Plaza Amsterdam.
www.rooiejoris.nl
http://www.facebook.com/pages/perminutedesign/229137827102583
We worked very hard to get these shipped, we had a tight deadline for pickup but luckily we could reschedule it to the end of the day so more packages could be shipped out. We also sprayed our cool new logo on the box 
Included in the package are all the parts to build, start printing and maintain the Ultimaker, hex screwdriver and more. For the first couple of batches we will also include the filament to print with (random color PLA). 
We’re really looking forward seeing these show up at your door.
[Update] On the following map, the green pins are people who have an Ultimaker in transit to them (or were in an Ultimaker workshop). The blue pins are those who secured a place in the Ultimaker pre-order (some pins are missing, feel free to add yourself!).
Ultimaker Operator Map.
We’re hard at work producing the Ultimakers for the people who ordered first. One of the workhorses is our lasercutter, which we use for cutting the plywood and perspex the Ultimaker is built of. It also marks the parts with numbers and text so it is easier to build the machine.
Also the first kits will come with a pre built printhead to make it easier to assemble. The thermocouple board on top has a bright blue LED which looks nice when the head is moving.
One of the early Ultimaker workshop participants, Paul Steenbrink (Cardillac) a Goldsmith, experiments with his Ultimaker to make jewelry, casted in gold or silver direct from the printed object. I didn’t know it is possible to cast directly from the printed model. The 3D print is invested in ceramic material and heated to +/- 1500 ºC and vaporizes, leaving a mould ready to cast from. I did some experiments myself with casting aluminum but I made a silicon mold and casted wax models which were casted in aluminum. It takes a lot more work and time than the method Paul uses.
Martijn Elserman
The last few months have been very busy ones for us, we done quite some testing with the Ultimaker, started a company, searched for the right material suppliers, worked on our webshop and so on. We initially planned to start in December but the combination of starting a new company and developing an all new product took more time than we counted on.
As of tomorrow NOW the Ultimaker is available for pre-order from our shop, yay! We will ship it in four to six weeks.
In addition to the many people who have contributed to the Ultimaker, we would especially like to thank the participants of first and second Ultimaker workshop at the Utrecht Fablab Protospace for providing such a lot of feedback to us, it has been really helpful in making the Ultimaker a great product.
Update: Yes, we will also ship to the USA and yes, it runs on 110 V and 240 V (some people were asking)
I’m not sure why we waited so long to post this on our site, but we had our debut on Dutch National TV. Erik was contacted (he’s the most visible one of us three) by De Wereld Draait Door to come and show our 3D printer. They thought it was a good idea to print a whistle, so we did. We just that day received some really good quality PLA and it printed very smooth and quick. The printer actually had a small startup error but a second time it fired off.
We did some testing regarding the speed boundaries of the Ultimaker. For ABS plastic it lies at approx. 150mm/s feedrate (x,y movement). It could be higher but we ran into flowrate issues occasionally and at high speeds it bonds less to the previous printed layer. PLA is a different story, it is much more sticky and flows better, it reached printing speeds of 350 mm/s during travel and 300mm/s during extrusion. It is not recommended for all kinds of shapes, although there is some loss of shape, objects with some infill will print fine. The part you see printing is a Mendel Z-bearing plate, http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1768
The fastest printing time was 9min, the print in the video took 12min at 300mm/s feedrate.
Update: the result with our new 0.4 mm nozzle is even better. No flow rate problems running it at this feed rate, either (with PLA, that is)!
I took my Ultimaker to BOTACON 0 (the first BOTACON of, I’m sure, many BOTACON’s to come!). There, I was giving a talk on the collaborative ecosystem that is emerging around digital fabrication. Bre Pettis and his Makerbot colleagues have given me ample opportunity to demonstrate the Ultimaker, which many people were seriously impressed by.
Photo by John Abella
Photo by John Abella
What I really liked about Botacon was the diversity of the talks. Some were about the development process, 3D printable transistors and OLEDs, the age of matter compilers, what it means for children to grow up with 3D printers, how to print intriguing shapes based on math and parametric design, how we can still define the word ‘robot’, anthropomorphizing robots, paint bots, etc. etc. There were many more talks that had a serious impact, together making it into a hugely successful event.
My presentation, figures from my research (PDF). Photo by John Abella
Above is a graph taken from my research (PDF) into the viability of open source hardware.
There weren't enough ladies at the event, so I printed some more during the conference. Photo by John Abella.
Some more photo’s in this gallery:
Many people stayed around until after the conference, allowing people that knew each other to also meet face-to-face. After the conference I’ve been hacking another extruder onto my Ultimaker at the awesome and renowned Hackerspace “New York City Resistor”, where there are always nice people around that are doing the most interesting projects.
Now I’m off to Boston, where I’ll be visiting my friend Mako and visiting the MIT Media-lab’s FabLab, where Ilan Moyer studies. Ilan, who was also speaking at BOTACON, is one of the developers of the Fab-In-A-Box, which has been an important inspiration for the Ultimaker’s XY positioning. Most other open source 3D printing bots have serial kinematics, which in some cases requires motors to be part of the moving mass. The Bowden cable concept, inspired by Ed Sells and further developed by myself, allows even less moving mass because the extruder can extremely light. The extremely low moving mass of the Ultimaker and Fab-In-A-Box allows these machines to move much more rapidly. This has been key to allowing it to print at 150 mm/s, while the default at which many people are currently printing is 33 mm/s.
L. Rodrigues, one of the 3D printer fanatics at the scene, made a nice movie at Botacon 0 that features the Ultimaker:
One of the things I don’t like about 3D printing is the time it takes to print. So I decided to see how fast this thing would go and see print time go down on the Unicorn file from Thingiverse.
Especially with the infill a lot of time is saved. The layer thickness for this print is 0.25mm printing this at 0.4mm would speed it up even more.
Update: the feed rate in this print is 150 mm/s, printing about 41.4 cc per hour (for measure, this would (theoretically) allow you to print a full 1100 cc RepRap Mendel set in 28 hours). The Unicorn STL was scaled up a factor of 2, so it has 8 times more volume to print. The limiting factor to speed still seems to be a software (firmware) related issue, not a hardware limitation of the frame (mechanical). Of course, you do need to have a well oiled machine to print at speeds like this, but it’s definitely possible. The shape would just fit in a 8 by 9 cm big. The raw material and electricity costs of this print are about 40 eurocents.
Here’s a print with support material. The overhang at the chin and nose is would not be possible to print without support material. Support is printed from the same material as the guy is printed from. Removing it takes a bit force (I have to find a way to make the support less dense) and leaves some spots, but it works.
ultimaker support material
ultimaker support material
ultimaker support material
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