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Popular 3D printer vendor has come up with a foldable portable concept that's mindblowing
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this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2025
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This feels like the right place to link to the Kralyn Positron project which is a compact, open source portable 3D printer.
https://github.com/KRALYN/PositronV3
I started buying parts to make one but haven't taken the time to get any of the machined parts manufactured yet.
This looks very cool, but I feel like its failure modes would be brutal. I've seen some failed prints turn into hairy balls of melted hate, but upside down...I feel like its begging to have a print adhesion failure just break everything.