14 DAY TRIAL // If you were to drop by Indiegogo now, you might stumble upon a certain project of the Rapid One Team, one that could actually persuade the common man to try their hand at 3D printing.
As the Rapid One team sees it, there is a big gap in the 3D printing market. There are high-end 3D printers (like MakerBot Replicator series) and hobbyist 3D printers (the type that random folks design at home and make look like weird and/or cool things on principle).
Rapid One is a desktop 3D printer that bridges the gap. It literally looks like a desktop PC, or rather a tower personal computer.
Fully enclosed, it can maintain a constant temperature while a 3D printing process is underway, which is nothing to scoff at knowing that some models take hours to make.
And with many 3D printers actually designed to work in open air, it gives the Rapid One an advantage, since it increases build success and purity (no dust or any outward substances will get in, by accident or otherwise).
Rapid One is also designed to be Plug and Play, again because of the unique enclosed housing and cartridge system.
Just set the print up, click start and there you go, you may play a game or leave the room, or the house, or even the city or country you're in without concerns that anything will interrupt the process. Well, except for a fire or other calamity, but those tend to destroy everything anyway, so it really wouldn't be the 3D printer's fault.
Furthermore, the fact that the 3D printing compartment is shut off from the outside means that no noises or fumes will reach you.
The Rapid One 3D printer will have a price of $2,499 when it's released in the middle of 2014, assuming the Indiegogo campaign pays off. On that note, you can get one for just $1,499 / €1,499 if you participate now.