Tinyboy 2 – 3D Printer for Education
The new Tinyboy 2 3D printer is designed for learning. To encourage the learners not just to consume, but to become Makers. Tinyboy can be assembled by students using a few simple tools. Students can operate and maintain their own machines by themselves, so they can understand the Maker culture through making.
3D printers are relevant to a number of subjects, not limited to:
3D design, 3D applications, e.g. reproducing ancient artifact for history lessons
Tinyboy 3D Printer and the technologies that drive it, e.g. Arduino, 3 Axes Robotic Control
Meet Mr. Parker Leung, the high school teacher who designed the Tinyboy 3D printer. He is very passionate about introducing 3D printing technology into the curriculum. A 3D printer usually takes 20~30 minutes to print a small object. Without TinyBoy, a teacher wanting to encourage students to print their designs into reality, would require excessive amount to be invested in multiple conventional 3D printers, not to mention the space required to house these machines.
TinyBoy 2 comes in two different sizes, which allows the users to select portability and build volume to suit their needs.
Built-in extruder design makes TinyBoy 2 much slimmer and saves your desktop space.
The default kit set comes with our special modified hotend, which gives better and reliable printings.
The new hotend mount allows users to replace or exchange different hotends much easier.
TinyBoy 2 uses 35BYGH steppers, which are larger than the previous TinyBoy, increasing the printing speed and reliability.
Some of the important plastic parts from our kit will be manufactured using injection molding. The design is going to be opened and you can replicate an extra printer by yourself printing the injection molding parts.
Achieving ever-improving quality is our goal. With our effort, high quality printings with a simple design printer is possible.
Technical Specifications
It’s Open!!
Similar to the previous version: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:701548, the design of Tinyboy 2 is going to be opened after shipping of the product, to encourage the adoption of 3D printing technology in schools.
TinyBoy 3D Printer had received different awards over the years, including: