I took a punt at $79 - around £50 at the time. Seemed like a pretty good gamble since the idea (resin/lithography printing) is proven, just not with smartphone screens. I'd forgotten about it until this post came up!
Was the concept that heavily doubted by so many people? The article is pretty snarky - e.g. "It is “a boon for democratizing 3D printing technology,” according to one idiotic tech blog." The comments are similarly vicious, people are treating this as snake oil. "Whether or not the ONO works or not, and when it will ship is irrelevant. We’ve seen cooler printers with more interesting technology fail spectacularly." The author seems to be deeply unimpressed that they might actually have a product.
Whether it works well is almost entirely going to boil down to the quality of the interface between screen and resin. We have a Form 1+ at work and struggled for a long time to get it to produce reliable prints. In the end we cleaned all the optics and polished up the windows and it seems to be pretty good now. Resin cost is the main bugbear - since they say you should change tanks ($50 a pop) every two bottles (litres) of resin.
Their timeline/Gantt chart shows they're a few months behind schedule, though that's not that bad for a hardware kickstarter that launched in March of this year (they hoped to be shipping in September). They're now saying shipping in January subject to their resin passing various international compliance laws. Depending how skeptical you are, they do have photos with rows and rows of semi-completed units.
Hackaday comments are famously dismissive and negative. In the case of hardware kickstarters that's typically justified, for everything else, not so much.
I bought into the ONO to see more development in the area of LCD resin printing. Great to see it actually working! Here is the best video I can find: https://youtu.be/SjCIkxHVhNM?t=62
Was the concept that heavily doubted by so many people? The article is pretty snarky - e.g. "It is “a boon for democratizing 3D printing technology,” according to one idiotic tech blog." The comments are similarly vicious, people are treating this as snake oil. "Whether or not the ONO works or not, and when it will ship is irrelevant. We’ve seen cooler printers with more interesting technology fail spectacularly." The author seems to be deeply unimpressed that they might actually have a product.
Whether it works well is almost entirely going to boil down to the quality of the interface between screen and resin. We have a Form 1+ at work and struggled for a long time to get it to produce reliable prints. In the end we cleaned all the optics and polished up the windows and it seems to be pretty good now. Resin cost is the main bugbear - since they say you should change tanks ($50 a pop) every two bottles (litres) of resin.
Their timeline/Gantt chart shows they're a few months behind schedule, though that's not that bad for a hardware kickstarter that launched in March of this year (they hoped to be shipping in September). They're now saying shipping in January subject to their resin passing various international compliance laws. Depending how skeptical you are, they do have photos with rows and rows of semi-completed units.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/olo3d/olo-the-first-eve...