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This $99 box transforms any smartphone into a 3D printer.

No, seriously
Heres how it works: The printer consists of three main parts a reservoir, a special photopolymer
resin that you pour into it, and a mechanized lid that contains the build plate and control electronics.
At the bottom of the reservoir, theres a piece of polarized glass which you place your phone
underneath, facing upward.
Basically, once you place the lid on top and the printer starts going, the app makes your phones
screen light up with a specific pattern. The polarized glass then takes all this light (which shines
outwardly to give your phone a wider viewing angle) and redirects it so that all the photons are
traveling straight upward. So as your phones screen beams light up into the reservoir, the directed
light causes a layer of resin to harden onto the build plate, which slowly moves upward as each new
layer is created. Its basically a tiny DLP printer that uses your phones screen instead of a projector
which is absolutely brilliant, because doing so replaces the single most expensive part of a
stereolithography printer with something cheap and very common

Breakthrough technology: patented Daylight resins harden under visible light. This allows you to
use your smartphone screen as a light source. ONO resins come in a wide range of materials
including hard, firm, flexible, translucent, and even castable resins. With ONO, you will never
waste a drop of material: resin left over after a print is completely reusable
ONO can print a single layer of a thickness of 0.035mm to 0.2mm in 20-32 seconds. The time is
determined by the brightness of the screen of your smartphone. For example: an iPhone 6 can
print a 1cm tall object in approximately 46 minutes, or 1 inch in approximately 1 hour and 55
minutes.
Yes, print precision depends on the resolution and the contrast of your smartphone screen.
Screen protectors up to 0.2 mm thick will not affect printing. Screen protectors thicker than
0.2mm will still produce prints, but they will have poorer resolution.

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