An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom’s Hardware: Resin printer company Peopoly made a big splash by unveiling a prototype beltless FDM 3D printer, the Magneto X, at the East Coast RepRap Festival. The new printer is a tabletop device with a huge build volume of 400 x 300 x 300 mm and print speeds of up to 800 mm/s. It adopts a design feature of CNC machines: magnetic linear motors. Typically, 3D printers move their components using rotating stepper motors attached to gears and pulleys. You can think of the linear motor as a flat, unrolled motor with the “rotor” attached to the moving component – the tool head – and the stator forming a track along an axis. The tool head, known as the “MagXY” system, appears to float above the portal without any visible aids. It has a peak print speed of 800 mm/s with a maximum acceleration of 22,000 mm/s, making it faster than modern Core XY printers from Bambu Lab.
Peopoly uses and supports both Klipper firmware and OrcaSlicer, which founder Mark Peng says has significantly helped reduce development time. […] Peopoly is strongly oriented towards the open source community. Not only have they become supporters of Klipper firmware, but they also use and support the open source OcraSlicer. The Magneto Peopoly’s Nozzles also states that its machine can be used without joining a cloud-based system and promises that no customer data is collected.
