Formlabs bought the Micronics #3D-printing startup “to Develop the Next Generation of Accessible #SLS”
on 02025-09-25#video about #SLS #3D-printing: apparently Formlabs bought Micronics, so their US$4000 printer may never see the light of day.
on 02025-09-25another #SLS #3D-printing #video on Micronics’ product (looks like US$3700 desktop SLS of metal-filled nylon 12 (US$88/kg) or TPU, not metal), by #CNC-Kitchen. Still on Kickstarter, though. They’re using quartz-halogen bulbs to preheat their build chamber so they can use just a 5-watt blue diode laser with a 250μm spot size to “kick it over” the melting point. Too bad about the large spot size; they say their step accuracy is 5μm, and they’re using 110μm layer height. Inside the printer they have a “carbon HEPA filter” to remove dust.
on 02025-03-22another #SLS #3D-printing #video #toread
on 02025-03-22A #paper on negative-#stiffness #metamaterials (“structures”) through “constrained bistable structures” #3D printed in nylon with #SLS. The figures are at the end. Related to #Merkle’s buckling-spring #mechanical logic.
on 02015-08-12