GolemD

4th generation of my printer line and probably first one mature enough to fully publish.

The basic idea is to enclose the print in a solid, rigid box. And just put everything you can outside. You can then add a second shell for aesthetics... or not :)

last touches on the prototype, teaser below

full size: [1]

all except the warrior printed on the machine

summary:

Aluminum composite shell body - did you notice how a simple cardboard box is rigid while assembled - same principal closed chamber - after installing front shield 15x15x15cm working volume 25x35cm footprint - plus Z contraption yegahD extruder single head or multiple with bowden nema23 for Y and n17 for other axes by default 12mm glides - uniform, stainless, aluminum or just some cold forged pipe. slide linear bearings bended aluminum single piece Xcart only ca. 200g of printed parts enclosed PSU and electronics - single ATX and Sunbeam/Teensylu in this case plywood and molded versions to come parametric openSCAD design ultra easy to correctly assemble and cheap to build

after installing front shield only small openings remain. with no extra insulation and no extra heating except the bed it gets to almost 50 degrees Celsius inside (about 30 outside)

next one will be large volume and "bed on the Z" type, but I wanted to make ultra cheap and easy to assemble one first, with minimum impact on quality.