South Dakota’s Odin Manufacturing and Design Consultants just launched a new crowdfunding campaign for a product that could potentially eliminate both of those hassles and keep filament easy to access and nice and dry. The 3D Printer Filament Storage Stand was just launched on Kickstarter this week and is looking to raise $25,000 to fully fund its production. The campaign is well on the way to meeting its goal with the first ten units offered at a discounted price having sold out within the first thirty six hours. That already pushed the campaign to a quarter of its final funding goal.
Odin’s filament storage stand not only organizes up to six standard 1kg spools of 3D printing filament, but it seals it inside of a stand that feeds it directly to the 3D printer. Additionally, the storage stand is completely sealed and designed to control humidity levels, which prevents the filament from absorbing moisture. During the testing phase, Odin measured the humidity inside and outside of the cabinet and the filament chamber easily maintained 10% or less relative humidity even when the relative humidity level outside of it was over 50%.
Odin also designed an integrated low wattage heat source that keeps the air inside the chamber slightly above room temperature and helps circulate it throughout the cabinet. The heated air will prevent moisture from building up in the chamber and the dry, recirculating air will prevent the filament from getting damp. The cabinet and heating element is powered by a simple 110V outlet.
At this point Odin has completed the testing phase, completed a sample of the production ready product and already sourced components for the first set of units. The Kickstarter campaign was launched on 8-17-2015 and will run until 9-16-2015. The campaign offers a $10 and a $25 thank you pledge, ten $269 earlybird priced cabinets that have already sold out, twenty more units available at a discounted $299 and $349 for full priced units. Odin is also offering discounted multiple unit packs of five cabinets or ten cabinets for $1,299 or $2,589 respectively.
Let us know what you think of this new filament storage solution over on our 3D Printer Filament Storage and Dryer on Kickstarter forum at 3DPB.com.
Take a look at the Kickstarter campaign video here: