Another day, another ambitious Kickstarter – and this one’s a cracker: an all-in-one 3D printer and scanner for just $100. Well, one hundred Canadian dollars, and that works out to just less than R1 000 at today’s exchange rate.

For your contribution you’ll get a Peachy Printer kit which will, according to the Kickstarter page, contain everything you need to build the 3D printer yourself. The estimated time to assemble everything is around an hour, and once you’re up and running the kit even has 100ml of resin to get you started. If you don’t feel like building anything you can simply opt for the full-assembled kit, which ships with 500ml of resin, but it costs $400.

Ah, yes. Resin. See, while the usual RepRap printers all use plastic filament, this printer uses a less conventional liquid resin. It’s the same liquid resin used by the Formlabs Form 1 3D printer – also a Kickstarter success – and both printers use photolithography as their process. Instead of extruding plastic filament, photolithography uses a laser or beam of light to harden the liquid resin, which is dripped onto the print in a controlled manner.

As mentioned, the Peachy Printer will also scan, but to get that functionality you have to fork out $350 (about R3 500) for the scanning attachment, on top of the $100 for the kit. But, and here’s the smart bit, you’re also able to use any camera you own to perform scanning of 3D objects, combined with the printer’s built-in laser.

Smartest of all, though, is that all of this tech is packed into a tiny cube that fits in one hand. Hit up the video below to see it demonstrated, and visit the Kickstarter page to get in on the action.