Liquid 3D-printer
"Rapid Liquid Printing" uses gel to suspend its creations.
MIT collaborated with furniture firm Steelcase to create it. Rapid Liquid Printing physically draws in 3D space within a gel suspension, and enables the creation of large scale, customized products made of real-world materials. Compared with other techniques this is the first development to combine industrial materials with extremely fast print speeds in a precisely controlled process to yield large-scale products.
Article:
https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/nzpkb8/mit-gooey-3d-printer-self-assembly-lab
Video source:
https://vimeo.com/211513776
More info:
http://www.selfassemblylab.net/index.php
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Would be interesting to see a complete model (robo-limbs?) built using this. Another printer for ISS maybe, how would a suspension like this print in low gravity?
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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