{"id":657943,"date":"2013-05-14T10:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=816495"},"modified":"2013-05-14T10:30:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:30:40","slug":"the-pirate3d-buccaneer-printer-will-cost-347-is-hitting-kickstarter-shortly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657943","title":{"rendered":"The Pirate3D Buccaneer Printer Will Cost $347, Is Hitting Kickstarter Shortly"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome to the world of the sub-$1,000 3D printer. Manufacturer Pirate3D<\/a> has promised that their Buccaneer printer will cost a mere $347, about $1,700 less than the cheapest extrusion-based printer available. The printer can print at a maximum of 100 microns – the same as the Makerbot’s<\/a> – and prints at 50mm\/s. It connects to your computer or mobile device via Wi-Fi and is made of stamped steel.<\/p>\n

The output of the printer looks to be just on the edge of acceptable, especially given the price, but as this stream of photos shows<\/a>, the Buccaneer has a 5.8×3.9×4.7 in build area, about half the size of a Replicator 2 and the prints are a bit jagged. The renders they’ve provided show a 3D printer that looks, at best, to be on par with the Form One<\/a> in terms of quality.<\/p>\n

Am I certain this thing will ever ship? Not really. Depends far too much on exciting “blog updates” and highly stylized photos to be an actual product just yet and $347 is quite low. Given that a good extruder is somewhere in the $50 to $75 range, there can’t be much going on in the brains of this machine and they’re going to have to cut corners somewhere. I obviously hope that this thing works as advertised – given that you can now sell a home games console for $99 it seems feasible that they can get 3D printer prices down as well – but, as in everything, you get what you pay for.<\/p>\n

They are also planning a Kickstarter campaign shortly<\/a> so you’ll be able to line up for one of these puppies in a few days.<\/p>\n

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Welcome to the world of the sub-$1,000 3D printer. Manufacturer Pirate3D has promised that their Buccaneer printer will cost a mere $347, about $1,700 less than the cheapest extrusion-based printer available. The printer can print at a maximum of 100 microns – the same as the Makerbot’s – and prints at 50mm\/s. It connects to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}