Cube 3D Printer 3D

3D @ Home will present at CES 2012, a consumer 3D printer called the Cube, designed to be easy to use, even if only with a library of objects shared by other users.

The Cube works with a sturdy plastic called styrene, the same as LEGO, which is introduced into the machine in the form of wire, wound into a large spool inserted in a tank. A nozzle gradually builds the object loaded into memory on a flatbed, from bottom to top. The Cube is file-compatible format. STL, what its competitors are also used for the time from the producers there is still a desire to chain designs in proprietary formats.

The Cube is a community site, Cubify, which is being built little by little. Each design can be made​​, customized and modified at will, and as one who hangs out in the environment already know you can show pretty much everything you see around simple items like chess pieces, or as complex designs or even entire villages of Minecraft of gloves made ​​of mesh like medieval armor, but the rings carved with integers and rivet.

The Cube will cost about $ 1200 dollars, which means making it affordable to anyone willing to invest the same amount of a high-end computers in 3D printing. 3D @ Home is also willing to print objects larger than those possible with the Cube-on-demand.

I am sure that at this CES 2012 there will be many other interesting facts about the world of three dimensional printing.