Several people have claimed to have a 3D printer ‘powered by a Raspberry Pi’. It has always turned out that this meant that there was a Pi in there somewhere, but actually it was being controlled by something else and the Pi was being used to send the raw data to the controller.

Now, in what appears to be a first, Owen Jeffreys has developed a custom 3D printer which is really 100% controlled by a Pi. He’s produced all the parts of the machine himself and has developed a custom circuit board which is linked to the Pi via ribbon cable.

You can read more about the printer by viewing this Vimeo page. Thanks to Mark Pearson for spotting the story over on 3dprint.com. Take a look at the video below for a tour around the printer.