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Unlock the full potential of your FDM 3D printer with Extrudinaire’s adaptable, powerful & versatile pellet extrusion system.
Integrating seamlessly with your 3D printer, Extrudinaire enhances your capabilities from flow-rate to material options – giving you an unprecedented level of control & configurability.
Unlock the full potential of your FDM 3D printer with Extrudinaire’s adaptable, powerful & versatile pellet extrusion system.
Integrating seamlessly with your 3D printer, Extrudinaire enhances your capabilities from flow-rate to material options – giving you an unprecedented level of control & configurability.
The most precise & powerful retraction to date, Extrudinaire’s patent pending method works with all nozzle sizes & materials.
Flow-rates up to 300g/h for faster, stronger & bigger prints.
Printing directly from pellets removes the unnecessary & excessive premiums on filament.
Extrudinaire integrates with & enhances your current 3D printer, providing industrial performance for a fraction of the cost.
All filament is made from pellets, but not all pellets can be made into filament. Extrudinaire allows you to unlock materials previously inaccessible for 3D printers.
Never pause to change a spool again – Extrudinaire’s Auto-Feeder provides dynamic & configurable dosing from freestanding storage reservoirs, holding 4kg of material.
Pellets are the raw form of most plastics, used to manufacture all kinds of plastic products through numerous processing methods – including filament, made on filament extrusion lines.
The process of making filament adds unnecessary costs & environmental impacts, placing excessive restrictions & limitations on materials available for 3D printing.
Pellets require no additional processing unlike filament, removing the costs added by its production.
Materials are available as filament only if they are suited to its production process, making a large portion of materials inaccessible for 3D printing with filament.
Filament extrusion lines consume excessive amounts of power & spools often become waste plastic.
With more materials & the versatility to utilise them, 3D printing with pellets opens the door for more applications & possibilities than ever before.
Extrudinaire’s pellet extrusion system is designed to empower & inspire, by providing powerful technology with exceptional versatility, enabling access to more materials at significantly lower costs.
A pillar of this vision is working with the community, supporting innovation & experimentation, to unlock new & exciting applications for 3D printing technology. Building collaborative relationships, empowering your ambitions & exploring new horizons together.
Community Collabs is an initiative through which we aim to build a community, to work & engage with, centered around Extrudinaire.
Extrudinaire’s pellet extrusion system is designed to empower & inspire the 3D printing community, its creators & innovators, by providing powerful technology with exceptional versatility, enabling access to more materials at significantly lower costs.
A pillar of this vision is work with the community, supporting innovation & experimentation, to unlock new & exciting applications for 3D printing technology.
Building relationships with our users, collaborating on your projects & exploring new horizons together – to ensure Extrudinaire evolves, continuing to push the frontier of 3D printing not for, but alongside you.
Community Collabs is an initiative through which we aim to build a community, to work & engage with, centered around Extrudinaire.
Developing a passion for 3D printing in his time at university, Eli contributed to a number of publications as a research assistant, studying the feasibility of 3D printing with filament made from recycled plastics.
On a trip to the Solomon Islands, where waste plastic was recycled & used to 3D print infrastructure for local communities, Eli considered a more elegant & less intensive solution than creating filament for the project.
An attachable, screw driven extrusion system that can process shredded, granulated & pelletised materials, reducing the environmental impacts of producing filament & making 3D printing with waste plastic much simpler.
A few months later, the precursor was born.
While lacking in elegance, & having no surviving elements in Extrudinaire’s design, it provided the proof of concept that resulted in years of tinkering, new iterations & plenty of trial & error.
Developing a passion for 3D printing in his time at university, Eli contributed to a number of publications as a research assistant, studying the feasibility of 3D printing with filament made from recycled plastics.
On a trip to the Solomon Islands, where waste plastic was recycled & used to 3D print infrastructure for local communities, Eli considered a more elegant & less intensive solution than creating filament for the project.
An attachable, screw driven extrusion system that can process shredded, granulated & pelletised materials, reducing the environmental impacts of producing filament & making 3D printing with waste plastic much simpler.
A few months later, the precursor was born.
While lacking in elegance, & having no surviving elements in Extrudinaire’s design, it provided the proof of concept that resulted in years of tinkering, new iterations & plenty of trial & error.
6 years of testing, refining & improving the Precursor’s design led to the first iteration of what we named Samsara, affectionately known as Sam.
Samsara was chosen as it refers to the cyclical nature of life & existence, similar to our core intention for Sam. It’s primary purpose, to enable recycled plastics to be re-used for 3D printing, contributing to the circular economy.
By this time, Extrudinaire’s other co-founder Daniel had joined the team, making the decision to partner with Eli after a chance reunion & lengthy conversation at a BBQ in early 2020.
Many different directions were explored in the early days; from building our own filament extrusion line, to promote recycled materials for 3D printing while funding Sam’s development; to designing & beginning to build a printer large enough for life-size prints.
While Sam was powerful, much beloved & was well on it’s way to being ready for production, there was something missing.
It was good, we were & are still proud of it – but it wasn’t enough.
6 years of testing, refining & improving the Precursor’s design led to the first iteration of what we named Samsara, affectionately known as Sam.
Samsara was chosen as it refers to the cyclical nature of life & existence, similar to our core intention for Sam, to contribute to the circular economy. It’s primary purpose to enable recycled plastics to be re-used for 3D printing.
By this time, Extrudinaire’s other co-founder Daniel had joined the team, making the decision to partner with Eli after a chance reunion & lengthy conversation at a BBQ in early 2020.
Many different directions were explored in the early days; from building our own filament extrusion line, to promote recycled materials for 3D printing while funding Sam’s development; to designing & beginning to build a printer large enough for life-size prints.
While Sam was powerful, much beloved & was well on it’s way to being ready for production, there was something missing.
It was good, we were & are still proud of it – but it wasn’t enough.
The main drawback & concern surrounding pellet extruders, one that we were well aware of, was their inability to effectively retract. Without the ability to match the quality & consistency of filament extruders doing complex prints, as much as we loved Sam, it wasn’t there yet.
Retraction for pellet extruders was a pie in the sky at the time. We knew full well that pellet extrusion wasn’t unique as a concept, that wherever it was mentioned, there was inevitably a discussion around retraction as an impossibility.
It’s easy to sum up what happened next as trial & error, creative thinking & a pinch of luck in hindsight, but the truth is – undertaking a complete design overhaul when we already had a working model was risky, expensive & stressful to say the least.
We are funded by our own contributions, as well as those of generous family & friends, so the decision to rebuild Samsara from the ground up wasn’t made lightly – but meeting the challenge to solve what had been labelled impossible drove us to where we are now.
After many late nights, red bulls & self-imposed isolation in the workshop, we completed the working prototype for what was, at the time, Sam 2.0.
But it did more than work – it worked extraordinarily well, for a prototype at least.
The main drawback & concern surrounding pellet extruders, one that we were well aware of, was their inability to effectively retract. Without the ability to match the quality & consistency of filament extruders doing complex prints, as much as we loved Sam, it wasn’t there yet.
Retraction for pellet extruders was a pie in the sky at the time. We knew full well that pellet extrusion wasn’t unique as a concept, that wherever it was mentioned, there was inevitably a discussion around retraction as an impossibility.
It’s easy to sum up what happened next as trial & error, creative thinking & a pinch of luck in hindsight, but the truth is – undertaking a complete design overhaul when we already had a working model was risky, expensive & stressful to say the least.
We are funded by our own contributions, as well as those of generous family & friends, so the decision to rebuild Samsara from the ground up wasn’t made lightly – but meeting the challenge to solve what had been labelled impossible drove us to where we are now.
After many late nights, red bulls & self-imposed isolation in the workshop, we completed the working prototype for what was, at the time, Sam 2.0.
But, it did more than work – it worked extraordinarily well. That’s how Extrudinaire was born.
Since that first test, we’ve spent our time iterating, refining & testing Extrudinaire. Expanding it’s capabilities & configurability, designing the accompanying Auto-Feeder & developing the 3D printer interface.
Our team has doubled in size & we’ve built relationships across the globe with those who share our passion – for pellet extrusion or 3D printing in general. It’s been a long & exciting journey, but it’s far from over.
We’re testing materials & recording the results, to supply both the materials & their support resources for launch.
These coming months, we’ll be checking the final boxes before Extrudinaire is fully available. Then, we continue pursuing our vision, empowering & inspiring the community to pursue their ambitions.
While Extrudinaire has progressed a long way from its original inspiration, it still maintains the ability to print with recycled plastics in pelletised, granulated or shredded forms & reduces emissions by removing the filament production process.
Since that first test, we’ve spent our time iterating, refining & testing Extrudinaire. Expanding it’s capabilities & configurability, designing the accompanying Auto-Feeder & developing the 3D printer interface.
Our team has doubled in size & we’ve built relationships across the globe with those who share our passion – for pellet extrusion or 3D printing in general. It’s been a long & exciting journey, but it’s far from over.
We’re testing materials & recording the results, to supply both the materials & their support resources for launch.
These coming months, we’ll be checking the final boxes before Extrudinaire is fully available. Then, we continue pursuing our vision, empowering & inspiring the community to pursue their ambitions.
While Extrudinaire has progressed a long way from its original inspiration, it still maintains the ability to print with recycled plastics in pelletised, granulated or shredded forms & reduces emissions by removing the filament production process.
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