Reality be advised, we usually discover pace sports activities to be somewhat boring. Whether or not it’s automobiles going round in circles for hours on finish or swimmers competing to be just a few milliseconds sooner than everybody else, we simply don’t really feel the necessity for pace. Except, in fact, you’re speaking about speedy 3D printers like “The 100”, which claims to provide high-quality prints in a tenth the time of an bizarre printer. In that case, you’ve received our full consideration.

What makes [Matt the Printing Nerd]’s high-speed printer fascinating isn’t the truth that it might do a “Speedboat Run” — printing a normal Benchy mannequin — in lower than six minutes. Loads of printers can do the identical factor a lot, a lot sooner. The spectacular half is that The 100 does it with a 3D-printed body. Actually, a lot of the printer’s components are 3d printed, a major departure from most pace printer builds, which usually shrink back from printed structural parts. [Matt]’s design additionally goals to maintain the middle of gravity of all of the printer’s parts inside a really small space, which helps handle body vibrations that restrict print high quality. The result’s that the CoreXY gantry is able to a pace of 400 mm/s and an eye-popping 100,000 mm/s² acceleration. What additionally units [Matt]’s printer aside is that The 100 is designed to be a day by day driver. It has a beneficiant 165 mm x 165 mm print mattress, which is way extra helpful than a mattress that’s barely greater than a normal Benchy.

The video under has far more particulars on the open-source construct, plus some good footage of some pace runs. The standard of the prints, even executed at pace, is fairly spectacular. Maybe there’s a level to hurry sports activities in any case.