Comment on Popular 3D printer vendor has come up with a foldable portable concept that's mindblowing
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Anycubic’s latest innovation could redefine what users expect from portable 3D printers, and has already won the iF Design Award 2025, but the company has offered no official launch date.
Lol of course they haven’t, this is a concept idea with probably zero engineering hours put in to it yet. This is their designers thinking “ooh, this would be super neat!” And their marketing team going “fuck yeah!”
It looks a lot like a typical robotic arm used in manufacturing. A quick Google shows that there are a number of desk mounted versions available, but I have no idea what kind of accuracy they offer. It shouldn’t be that complicated of a design and since most approaches use encoders things like missteps should be a thing of the past.
I can’t see pulling this off at a home user price point without pretty big compromises on positioning accuracy and/or giving up on feedback.
What a bummer.
Had high hopes of them cooking it in secret and releasing it with the potential for 4th axis stuff with the robot arm in the future (software update) or at least the community could use it as an easy-to-purchase devkit to develop their own opensource software solution.
With this being just a concept and them BUYING their award (sic., paid to apply with a high success of “winning”) combined with their failed multi-color printhead for the Ankermake turns this into a nothing burger.
Its going to end with the the juicearo and google glass theres no way this concept goes anywhere
jagermo@feddit.org 2 months ago
I mean, I agree, if they can pull it off, it is super neat
SufferingSteve@feddit.nu 2 months ago
Those darn lazy engineers. I mean the entire thing is basically done as you can see from the picture!
Those darn engineers just have to put it in that box and make it move, what’s the big deal. Slowpokes
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
That’s all we need to do? Move? Sweet!
2 days later
Why’s it got wheels?