3D printing is gaining in popularity and brings with it the promise of making your own physical stuff at home out of plastic. The problem is, it’s still quite expensive to get your own 3D printer at home, and constructing one from a kit can be quite complex and time consuming.

Examples of 3D printers already available to purchase and build include the Makerbot ($1,299), the Ultimaker ($1,600), and the Pruse Mendel ($825). As you can see, none of those are exactly very cheap to acquire.

Brook Drumm aims to change that with a new Kickstarter project for his 3D printer called the Printrbot. The project managed to collect 100% of the funding he required in just 46 hours, and there’s still plenty of time before the December 17 deadline to pledge some money and secure yourself one of these home 3D printer kits.

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The Printrbot is desirable because a full kit will only cost you $499. There’s also a Bare Bones Kit for $199 where you supply the electronics yourself, or for the really adventurous a $75 option that gives you the printed parts, but leaving the hardware up to you.

The other benefit of the Printrbot is the fact Drumm promises you can construct it in just 45 minutes, and will be printing stuff within 2 hours, which he explains in the video below.

With the funding target already reached, this project is definitely going to happen come December 17. So if you are interested in 3D printing then this may be the cheapest and easiest solution yet. Get pledging!