THE 100 - The fastest 3D Printer

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Description

This is THE 100, the fastest 3D Printer based on a printed frame.

It does Speedboats in less than 6 minutes and is capable of doing high quality prints in 1/10th of the time a Ender 3 would need.
By the time releasing, The 100 is at the 26th rank of the leaderboard of the fastest printers in the world and it's the fastest one that uses a 3d printed frame.
And the best thing, this printer 100% open source. Which means if you like this printer and you like to build one by own, you find all resources needed in this model.

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Specifications

Printing Technology: FDM
Build Volume: 165x165x150mm
Maximum Printing Speed: 400mm/s
Maximum Acceleration: 100.000mm/s²
Layer Height: 0.1-0.35mm
Extruder: BMG Bowden Extruder
Filament Diameter: 1.75mm
Nozzle Diameter: 0.4 (swappable)
Maximum Nozzle Temperature: 300°C
Maximum Heatbed Temperature: 110°C
Leveling Mode: manual
File Transfer: USB Drive, WIFI
Rated Power: 350W
Supported Filaments: PLA, PETG

Project Logs

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Testing the maximum printing speeds in a real world szenario
MattThePrintingNerd • 07/09/2023 at 16:35 • 0 comments
Release of THE 100 v1.1-beta1
MattThePrintingNerd • 06/12/2023 at 11:24 • 0 comments
After 3 months of development, I got to the point where I think that the design of THE 100 v1.1 is stable enough for a larger group of people. Every part was tested and will be tested even further since it's part of my current daily driver I use for prototyping. So yeah today I've released v1.1-beta1 for my 5$ Patreon.
Changelog:
- New Toolhead: The toolhead was redevelop from scratch. Compared to v1.0 it's able to push about 65% more air at the critical point directly under the nozzle.
- New Feet: The new feet are able to absorb 25%-30% more force before the frame starts shaking
- Removed Rods from the back of the printer: This removed 2 linear rods from the BOM reducing the price of the printer by another 7-10$
- Clearance fix for Toolhead: The toolhead is now able to move 5-6mm more in the X-Axis
- Added allen wrench holes for X/Y-Motors
- Added Nut-Inserts to the Mainboard Mount
- Added Clamp to fix Power Cord
- Made LM8UU Exchangable
- Added Quickmounts for Z-Rods
- Bugfix: Power Supply Holder
- Added cable guides for proper cable management
Testing Overhang Performance of my new THE 100 build
MattThePrintingNerd • 06/02/2023 at 16:39 • 0 comments
Testing my new Quality-Speed Profile on THE 100
MattThePrintingNerd • 05/31/2023 at 19:30 • 0 comments
Testing part cooling performance
MattThePrintingNerd • 05/19/2023 at 20:36 • 0 comments

Today I found the time to test a bit the cooling performance of the printer
Started tuning of the next iteration of the printer
MattThePrintingNerd • 05/19/2023 at 14:27 • 0 comments

Yesterday i've started to tune my new construction of THE 100. I was especially exited to test the new motion system, here is a small teaser of the upcoming v1.1:
Print FASTER: How this blobby mess will improve your printing quality! is online
MattThePrintingNerd • 05/03/2023 at 14:56 • 0 comments

This week i've produced a video where I want to give you a deep overview about why you should print Speedboats and how they might help you to improve the quality of your 3D Printer while maintaining the speed or even increasing it! But not only that! I will show you many examples of speedboats I've printed while I was tuning the new THE 100 v1.1 construction.
Find out in this video:
Print FASTER: How to print 3D Benchy's twice as fast! is online
MattThePrintingNerd • 04/24/2023 at 16:34 • 0 comments

Today i've produced a video where I want to give you a brief overview about speed printing! But not only that! We will learn which slicer settings matter most when optimising a print profile for the #speedboatrace
Find out in this video
THE 100 Q&A Episode 1
MattThePrintingNerd • 04/18/2023 at 17:06 • 0 comments

Today i've produced a video where I tried to answer a couple of questions people asked in Discord or on YouTube about me, the project or the printer.

- How many printers do I have?
- Why is THE 100's print bed so small?
- Why lead screws and not Z with belts?
- Will there be a THE 100 kit
Find out in this video
A package arrived
MattThePrintingNerd • 04/15/2023 at 14:48 • 0 comments

Two weeks ago I was able to find a small carbon fibre manufacturer that is able to produce 8mm carbon fibre rods with a tolerance of 0,05mm. Lets find out if it's good enough for fast printing.