{"id":167,"date":"2016-05-15T02:09:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T02:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=167"},"modified":"2016-05-15T02:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T02:09:58","slug":"can-i-make-a-3d-printer-on-my-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Can I make a 3d printer on my own?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Hello. I guess the title is a bit confusing what I want is to make a 3d printer with 500$ in parts but I want it to be the quality of a ultimaker or some other prosumer oriented 3d printer.I am a cnc machinist and I always wanted to have a 3d printer. I have a lot of aluminium extrusions, sheets, blocks and rods on hand with access to 3-5axis mills and lathes.I tried to find a design I liked but I couldn&#8217;t pick. I don&#8217;t know what are the advantages of a enclosure (not like there are chips flying) a bed z axis and a extruder z axis. What controller to use, how powerful the motors should be, 3mm vs 1.75 etc.What I am asking is for someone to show me where to start and\/or what to start with. I&#8217;ve seen some videos but those look clunky, slow, badly made, I want to make it precisely, and with high grade components. Can it be done?EDIT: Thanks for the info everyone, I absolutely love these things that you showed me. I will make a parts list and a model of my project in solidworks. I will edit this post once again in about a day so anyone who comes here can see my plans and build progress. http:\/\/ift.tt\/1qkAUwI<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello. I guess the title is a bit confusing what I want is to make a 3d printer with 500$ in parts but I want it to be the quality of a ultimaker or some other prosumer oriented 3d printer.I am a cnc machinist and I always wanted to have a 3d printer. I have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=167\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can I make a 3d printer on my own?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3dprinters","tag-3dprinting","tag-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}