A new type of 3D printing is being developed at Switzerland’s École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) that can use light and volumes of resin to instantly print objects, as opposed to having to add layer upon layer in the much more-time consuming method of most 3D-printers, additive printing.
New Resin Printing Method Creates Objects In Seconds
From hackaday.com
2022-06-01 15:30:31
Bryan Cockfield
Excerpt:
The method works similarly to existing resin printers by shining a specific light pattern on the resin in order to harden it. The main difference is that the resin is initially placed in a cylinder and spun at a high speed, and the light is shined on the resin at different angles with very precise intensities and timings in order to harden the resin in specific areas. This high-speed method allows the printer to produce prints in record-breaking time. The only current downside, besides the high price for the prototype printer, is that it’s currently limited to small prints.
With the ability to scale in the future and the trend of most new technologies to come down in price after they have been on the market for some amount of time, it would be groundbreaking to be able to produce prints with this type of speed if printers like these can be scalable. Especially if they end up matching the size and scale of homemade printers like this resin printer.
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