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a this is a printer I've been looking forward to since I saw it the first time

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it's a pre-production micronic SLS printer unlike most of the other

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printers we've looked at this is a laser printer that can print out of

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nylon and get you almost production ready parts that was

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awesome this thing should be able to do production ready Parts without any

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support and with almost any geometry you could think of which is amazing in box

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number two we have the bill ch ber which holds all of your raw powder and

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eventually your completed Parts unlike most other printers oh

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this for this type of printer you need a full build chamber and we'll get into

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exactly why later

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on next up we have the powder processing unit this particular one unfortunately

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got damaged during shifing but they were able to send us a replacement right

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away looking inside it we have a Sie for recycling your powder

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a filter and extractor a bunch of processing tools a

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mask and some gloves power adapter

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and the powder itself oh looks like they included a

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couple of uh test Parts too looks like we were sent a couple of

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extra care packages as well some more test

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prints ah they made a little H version

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of the stubby good and this last part that we have to

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open up is a glass pane to go on top of the build chamber we've gotten

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everything opened up but now we have to go through the first setup steps for the

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printer and all of its components I was wrong there's more to

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unpack inside the printer

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itself part removal scooper and some H

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hallogen bulbs

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we've gotten through the first bit of setup and now we get to power it

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on hey

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success and she

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goes powder needs to get smacked around

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a little actually

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and then it

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goes now that the printer set up and ready to go let's take a look at the

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other part of this that I'm quite intrigued by the slicer it's based on

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Unreal Engine which unlike most other slicers means you can just throw Parts

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in have them drop into the build volume and it'll just self- pack for you which

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anyone who's had to pack a build plate knows that's a massive quality of life

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improvement with the other SLS system we have when we're putting Parts into the

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slicer we have to place them all essentially manually if we want to get

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them close together it slicer doesn't handle things very well ah so you can

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see how it's running through each layer that it's going to print though I can't

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tell if it'll show me what the whole part looks like just from the print file

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itself so that might be a surprise for all of us later let's actually get

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printing so insert this in print from

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SD Linus demo 2 hours and 20 minutes

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it's going to heat up for probably about 15 minutes and then it'll start actually

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going through the process of printing with all of the SLS printers of this

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style they take a very fine powder spread it across the print bed in a very

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small layer heat it up and then hit it with a laser to turn it into a liquid in

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a very small area and Center it together

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after that spreads another layer of powder across and does it again what

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that means is you can have any part geometry you want without any support

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and having to worry about it cuz the uncentered material is your support and

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you can recover most of it after the fact our print finished up overnight

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Linus now we got it out of the printer we're getting the top glass off placing

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our filter back on using our transfer

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tool which is a nice little scoop pretty cleverly designed

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place that down here now we're going to transfer this into our sifting tool

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which looking inside it's a little seeve that'll

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recycle a lot of the used powder and should hold all of our parts above

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it this part's going to stay loud for a

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bit so we have a couple of

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bricks but they didn't break apart too well

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going to break these down by hand a little bit more close it up and give it a

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shake you can potentially break the parts if they're really

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fragile but from what I saw these ones

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should be pretty robust I got most of the bulk powder off and since we do have

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a sand blaster I'm going to take these over and clean them up over there looks

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like we have parts of a lightsaber a little Deadpool ninja that's cute and

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then some more keychains with the micronics logo and little uh scales on

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the back the parts look pretty much comparable to the other SLS printers

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that I've seen in the past break one just to see

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yep there you go so yeah they're

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definitely Mighty strong as I would expect they're essentially solid nylon

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though more brittle because of the nature of how they're made

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but certainly a capable printer now that we've seen the printer all of its parts

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and what it can do let's talk about micronics itself

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normally we don't cover kickstarters on ShortCircuit but for this one we made a

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bit of an exception because myself and a bunch of other people on the team were

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really excited about the technology and the potential options that it could lend

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to creators or other people due to its price point and its form factor compared

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to competing products the planned launch for the kickstarter is June 13th and

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they've said they expect things to ship in April

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2025 but as with all kickstarters it's

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never a guarantee so your mileage may vary for another system that's similar

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to this capability you're looking at about $17,000 at a starting point and this one

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is going to run you $4,500 retail price the kickstarter

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price is somewhere between 3,000 and about 3700 and the overall form factor

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of this is movable by one person whereas if you compare that to the fuse 1 plus

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that we have that's at minimum a two-person move with a lot of

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infrastructure around you so the portability and ease of use of this

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potentially makes it accessible to individual makers or small companies for

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the overall specs of the machine they expect it to be able to hold about1 mm

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tolerances for the individual Parts the total build volume is about 160x 160x

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200 mm which is a little bit smaller than some of the other competitors but

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still a pretty good build volume especially for a printer of this size

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which is about 3 10x 330x 700 mm again

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pretty movable by one person having this printer and using it has made me more

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excited about it than less thanks for watching this ShortCircuit if you liked

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