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Up Date-15
How to pre-order NX1 after today
Posted by NEXA3D
For backers only
Dear Backers,
once the Kickstarter campaign fails, the orders you have made get lost.
As you know we are planning to present the campaign again in March/April 2016, but in the meantime we would like to start shipping a few printers and work with our supporters and backers to optimize the final campaign and make the product even better!
For those of you that want to be sure to be the first to have the first ultra-fast 3D printer ready on your desktop, we are setting up a preorder page on our website http://www.nexa3d.com.
We are using Trycelery.com which is a web-order system made for startups:
it is very clear and simple
no money will be taken from your credit card until your printer is ready!
transactions are 100% secure and operated by Stripe
Estimated shipping March 2016
Only a few pieces available.
We will send you today, basing on your pledge tier, a special coupon to obtain the same special price we offered on Kickstarter.
We will also open a blog section on our website to publish our updates and news.
Grazie mille e Buon Natale!
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Dec 18 2015
This is not the end
Dear backers, supporters and friends,
the end of our Kickstarter campaign has come.
We’ve done a lot of soul searching these past few days. We of course were disappointed that after so much blood, sweat and tears was put into our product, we would not be reaching our Kickstarter goal. We were, however, impressed and encouraged by the support we received from you publicly on Kickstarter, in private emails, Facebook posts and telephone calls. We are proud our campaign surpassed $100k, but we are also frustrated by its failure.
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy
As we look back on our campaign (mind you this was our first campaign), we now understand the mistakes we made. And truly understanding your mistakes is the first step to future success.
So we will draw from these mistakes and we will plan our re-launch.
We were not ready for Kickstarter.
This is clear: we were not ready. We made many mistakes, some of them we were able to solve on the fly during the campaign, others were activities and initiatives we should have been doing in advance of our campaign launch.
We approached our Kickstarter campaign as if it were an advertising campaign: it isn't. It is a community and we understand that now.
We were way too focused on aesthetics, while we should be focused more on explaining features, performances and usages. We should have explained in detail, every aspect of our technology and product. And showed in action for the entire Kickstarter community to see.
We were so excited by what we built, that we distracted ourselves from everything else. We believed Kickstarter would love the NX1 as much as we do, so we spent very little time preparing our campaign to go live. We spent very little time preparing our campaign; All the multimedia, copy, our website, everything was thrown together last minute as we were so focused on getting the product right.
We didn't do any prelaunch: not only were people not expecting the first ultra fast 3D printer, but we didn't get any feedback before going live - and we learned this was a big mistake, as most campaigns pull in 80% of their backing in the first week.
We thought that as this was a crowdfunding campaign, it should be obvious that some items like our UI were not ready yet, but we underestimated the importance of seeing the software.
We believed we were speaking to a predominantly consumer audience, but we now see that you, our customers are mostly professionals and prosumers.
We needed to share more information on the specifications and tolerances of our materials. But the most important thing is: WE DID NOT WORK CLOSELY ENOUGH WITH REAL USERS. You guys have been fundamental in opening our eyes to thousands of different aspects that will make the NX1 even better.
What we achieved
Not everything has been terrible
We created a new brand! And most 3D printer makers out there (that are quietly celebrating our campaign failure) are worried about what’s coming next from those Italian guys. Our digital channels (web, social, press) reached millions of people. We have been covered on leading news outlets including, Engadget, Digital and Techtimes. We are opening the era of 3D Fast Printing.
We promised to be the game changer and we are: every new 3D printer coming to market will have to face our aggressive price, impressive performance, and our better, smarter, more elegant product design. And prove to be able to print solid objects in fast mode.
Some top-tier brands reached out to us to explore partnerships or investments in Nexa3D! We are very proud about that! Especially for a little company from Rome.
We found many business partners that want to bring NX1 to almost every part of the world. This amazes us.
But the most important thing is we now have thousands of new friends! We are so excited by the great support we have gotten from you, our backers (that notwithstanding our mistakes and a few "unlucky" bends in the road) not only trusted in but even spent hours and hours in giving us suggestions and in promoting and supporting the community!
Unlucky
As we want to be transparent, we think that some of the "mistakes" were caused buy some unlucky and external events. But lucky or unlucky, something will always happen, so let us explain what we have learned also from this.
Perhaps some potential backers were not comfortable baking an Italian company running a Kickstarter campaign in Euros. Research we found indicates U.S. backers are normally around 50% of a typical campaign; in our case less than 20% of our backers were from the U.S.
Next time we will have more than one final prototype. Should some customs agent or clumsy person destroy our prototype, we won’t find ourselves halfway through a campaign trying to repair our only functional unit. At this we would like to thank the fine folks at DHL and Italian customs for holding our only NX1 prototype for more 10 days (the first critical 2 weeks of our Kickstarter campaign), and for extra measure roughing it up to the point of inoperability.
The Internet is free. This is its power, but also its limit: any idiot can pick up a keyboard and write whatever he or she wants. I don't want to go back on this point, but it is important to share that based on numbers, it is 100% clear the malicious patent rumor attack made on our Kickstarter campaign page, destroyed our campaign. Our traffic continued to grow, but patent troll hit our campaign, sales came to a dead stop. Backing a Kickstarter campaign is of faith and if I were a potential backer, seeing that troll’s comments, I would have had some doubts in investing in an NX1 as well. The fact that someone spread rumors that in the near future we could be facing patent litigation was a deathblow. So here’s to all you patent trolls out there, nice win.
We want to be clear that this is not the way we do business. This is not the way we live. And it should be not permitted to do that. We believe in fairness and respect.
Our particular Kickstarter patent troll never bothered to contact us, respond to our lawyer or do anything other than post on our campaign page and call reporters who covered our story. Interestingly though he or took the time to post plenty of messages from fake accounts. I hope that every one of you will consider what happened and if you ever hear about them, treat them the same way they treated us.
Our message to them is simple: what doesn't kill us makes us stronger!
Ok... never, ever launch a 3D printer Kickstarter campaign during Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas
Good lesson for the Italians guys. What we will do next
We will go on! We will work hard to introduce the first ultra-fast printer on the market. We will work hard to introduce the first ultra-fast printer on the market. And continue to our mission to be the easiest, smartest, fastest, highest value and the most beautiful 3D printer on the market.
We will focus on our community: and yes the press, investors, and partners too, but you are our greatest asset. We will continue working with you, sharing updates, ideas and thoughts to make our amazing.
We will work on a new launch in early 2016. This time not in NYC, but in Rome! And you guys will be invited! We will welcome press, partners, distributors, and above all our first backers.
We will introduce a Pro version that will be even more accurate and with an even larger printing area. We will ask your help and support to design it together.
We will work on the resins and the software: these two were weak spots for us with our campaign and that will not happen again.
We will look to satisfy some orders in the meantime: we will open a preorder section on our website http://www.nexa3d.com to take orders. Why? We really would like to ship some printers to users who want to be our first adopters and testers. We need your feedback to make the NX1 even better.
We will follow up in updating this campaign but please don't forget to register to our newsletter here. And if you visit Rome, don't forget to visit us!
It is with a sad heart that today we end this chapter and start a new one for the NX1. So from the bottom of our hearts, we thank every one of you (except that one idiot patent troll
). This has been a fantastic adventure and it is just the beginning!
Let us close this update with a special #starwars quote! Checkout this short video with NX1 singing the Starwars Theme
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I made a similar concept a few months ago and it cost me about $ 2. My opinion is that to use a silicone oil is absolutely wrong and the disadvantages that have this way of printing are so much. I think these are wasted money and time and broken hopes in future.
Regards
Drago
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I do not have any type of association with "LLI Technologies” or the “NX1” on kickstarter.
My development is based upon, on some what proven FEP Flex Vat results, and an Ideal Constant speed Mechanism; Designed to print Solid Objects . Below is my Video Link:
Sincere Regards
Saeed
https://youtu.be/3PWSHD0tpDw
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As for our resins, certainly you can use them more than once. But that's not all. At the beginning of the printing process, our Nx1 fills the tank with resin, makes the object and then empties the tank, all automatically, re-loads the cartridge and is ready for the next print job. The cleaning kit we told you about is an additional accessory that you can use when you want to wash the tank and the resin circuit thoroughly, for example if you decide to change color or type of resin.
I've been told about the problems relating to replacing the bulbs on DLP systems. At our printing speed, you would have to print almost 1.5 km of objects before you used up your 2000 hours of guaranteed bulb life!!!
With regard to the last question about enclosing the printer, let's try and visualize the full-blown revolution we are aiming to set in motion… all those problems that people used to have when it took took 8 or 10 or 15 hours to print an object are a thing of the past… you no longer have the problem of covering the printer with an enclosure… or problems of bulb life! This printing speed truly revolutionizes the concept of 3D printers, even from a technical point of view. If we had not achieved these levels of performance, the design of the NX1 could not have been what it is either!!
Our aim and our dream are still the ones we established for our launch… we want to change people's perception of what a 3D printer is… and in our opinion, it should be fast, smart and affordable!!
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If we were to print a smooth, thin, unperforated surface, as we would if we were forming products made of plastics (this is always true, not just for 3D printers), there would be no problem.
Some people have asked me if our technology is capable of printing a solid cube. The answer is yes, but it would be slower (up to 3-4 minutes per cm), it would use a lot of resin … and use a lot of self-lubricating film.
In my opinion, and our software will suggest this to you, a solid cube should be printed in this way, correctly assessing the structural characteristics of the resin… when we build a house, we don't make everything out of reinforced concrete, only the load-bearing structure!!!
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Posted by NEXA3D
Frequently asked questions
PRINTING SPEED
How do printing times change as a function of layering?
Why does every object have a different printing speed?
PRINTING QUALITY
Are you capable of printing solid objects?
Can you print surfaces and can we see the printing quality?
Does the self-lubricating film affect the resin and the finished printing quality?
RESIN
Can you use the resin more than once?
MISCELLANEOUS
Doesn't the printer have an enclosure?
I will try to describe the process as simply as possible, and there are obviously certain details that we can't divulge because they form part of our trade secret, such as the formulas of our films and resins, and how they are combined. Having said that you obviously need a clear idea of the printing quality that you get with our technology, but I hope you can appreciate how delicate some of this information is.
The answer to many of these questions lies in an understanding of the operating process of our LSPc technology, and especially in the time equation… First of all, you need to understand that our time equation is the result of our method, not the method itself!!
Unlike normal SLA/DLP printers, our printing time involves two speeds: the speed at which the new portion of resin sets (curing time - tp), and we all know about this and it's clear to everybody, and the speed at which the resin penetrates between the self-lubricating film and the recently formed object (refresh time - tb). We need this new parameter because we have dispensed with the tilting system that's typical of other printing methods, so we have to “wait” for the new liquid resin to penetrate! This second parameter depends on many factors, and here is not the place to list them all.
This is why we have a Partially Continuous Sequential System… if the refresh time of the resin is longer than the setting time… the machine has to “wait” for the new layer to get soaked in liquid resin… if, however, the refresh time is shorter than the setting time, the printer can form the object continuously, in other words, without layers!!
So having established that the setting time is constant in relation to the thickness to be solidified, why does our printing speed vary? Why do our videos show objects with holes?
The refresh time depends on many factors, but especially on the dimensions of the individual surface that we have to create for each individual layer… take a look at the example…
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