Nearly a year ago, we caught wind of a competition to create a home-based filament manufacturing station that takes cheap plastic pellets available for about $5/kg and turns them in to 3D printer ...
If you’ve been keeping up with 3D printing, then you know that the ... and you’ll be happy to know that it handles most types of printer filament. Also, while there isn’t a direct deal ...
Now you’ve got a half-decent 3D printer for $150 ... Toss in the price of a kilogram of cheap PLA filament as well, because you’re going to need to calibrate the printer and make parts ...
As for the materials you'll use to print with, most affordable 3D printers use the abovementioned FFF technique, in which plastic filament—available in spools—is melted and extruded ...
PETFusion 2.0 is both a PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottle recycler and a custom 3D printing filament maker, with the ability to even apply your own ink/pigments to the filaments you make ...