Yeah, many people voiced these concerns, and their FAQ also is quite short about some things like the clear bottle(demonstration purpose, will be black bottle), etc etc.
I think it would be a super cool product if it was relatively fast(we all want to keep using our smartphone) and safe(uhm yeah), and easy and cheap. Guessing it isn't I wouldn't bet my money on it.
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chrisw 70
Their plan to make money must be relying on resin sales. With my phone being incapacitated for the time of a print, I'd probably feel a need to have a second phone. Would that maybe quadruple the cost of this device?
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cloakfiend 996
Good idea, but yes, i imagine the resins being expensive, and no mention of resolution, and time, and durability of the prints. Proprietary materials are bad, its a gimmick untill others produce compatible materials. You dont want to be stuck with a useless thing after, but for 99bucks at least its cheap. Considering the iphone has the worst resolution of all premium phones on the market its a bit silly to use one in the demo, unless they are also pushing the apple brand, but whos knows it may not matter. Id be interested in actually seeing the end results first hand before id even touch this. i imagine everything in the video being staged and not the actual prints.
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valcrow 145
Yeah there's a bunch of things that bug me about this.
-Their resins come in clear bottles. Photosensitive resins! in clear bottles! ok fine, it's just marketing right now, but that's a little unrepresentative.
-They handle and wash their prints without gloves in a kitchen sink. Liquid resins washed in a place where you make food is not such a good idea since it's toxic.
-Not using gloves is also quite irresponsible marketing.
I've used the daylight resins before, I assume it's similar since that worked on LCD screens as well. They don't cure well, after a week, the prints are still tacky :/ Perhaps it's a different resin, or they will have it solved on launch. But until we see first hand, I remain skeptical.
Cleanup remains the most daunting part of owning SLA/DLP machines, and this is going to be a doozie to use.
The one major thing it has going for it however is using the phone screens. Since smartphone screens have amazing DPI compared to most tech you could theoretically get some really detailed prints if everything else works as advertised.
I'd put this in my list of interesting KS projects that have great misleading marketing videos. I will certainly be interested if it becomes a real thing, but never before.
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