14 DAY TRIAL // It is one of these websites that will make or break the fate of the David 3D printer from Sculptify, which we covered last month when it first surfaced.
We won't go into details again, since we did so last time. We'll just say that the Kickstarter crowd-funding website is finally hosting the product.
It's a pretty nifty device really. Every bit as good as any other FDM 3D printer, but capable of using pellets instead of filament, cutting the cost of material by around a hundredth. Sounds amazing, but it's true: plastic pellets really do sell for about a hundredth of the $20 to $60 / €14.67 to €44 per kilogram that filament spools demand.
The Sculptify David does have a drawback though: its price is a pretty big $2,745 / €2,063, and it will be $3,195 / €2,401 later this year when the product goes into retail (assuming it raises the necessary $100,000 / €75,155). Considering that the campaign managed a third of that in just a day, I'm not worried.
