Posted on 02/06/2015 2:13:19 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Voxel8, creator of the world’s first multi-material 3D electronics printer and backed by Braemar Energy Ventures, announced pre-order availability of its initial product – the Voxel8 Developer’s Kit. Voxel8 also announced its partnership with Autodesk to develop a new design tool called Project Wire for creating 3D electronic devices printed on Voxel8’s platform. Together, Voxel8 and Autodesk are enabling designers and engineers to create three-dimensional parts with embedded circuitry for the first time.
Rapidly design novel devices, such as 3D printed antennas, electromagnetic coils, or stack ICs in ways that were previously impossible. Eliminate wire harnesses by combining them with 3D traces. No longer are you limited to planar PCBs - now you can design the electronics to fit your part, rather than designing the part around the electronics.
The Voxel8 Developer’s Kit will include the desktop 3D electronics printer, conductive ink cartridges, PLA filament, modeling software and software support. Voxel8’s desktop 3D electronics printer features dual material capabilities by combining a Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) printhead with a conductive silver ink printhead. A limited release of the Developer’s Kit will be shipped in late 2015
Voxel8 exists to disrupt the design and manufacture of electronic devices by providing new functional materials with a novel 3D printing platform. Desktop 3D printers today are constrained to printing thermoplastics or UV resins. Using Voxel8’s 3D printer, you can co-print matrix materials such as thermoplastics and highly conductive silver inks enabling customized electronic devices like quadcopters, electromagnets and fully functional 3D electromechanical assemblies.
Voxel8 is collaborating with Autodesk on Project Wire, a Spark powered design tool for 3D printed electronics. Project Wire is a new design tool under active development at Autodesk that provides electronics and 3D printing enthusiasts with the ability to place components and route 3D wires.
"Voxel8 is leveraging over a decade of research, which has led to 17 patents (10 issued) on functional materials, printheads, and other processes for 3D printing, from my lab,” said Dr. Jennifer A. Lewis, Voxel8 Founder and Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. “Our work provides the foundation for Voxel8’s effort to revolutionize multi-material 3D printing. To realize our vision, we have recruited a multi-disciplinary team with expertise in the advanced materials, precision hardware, intelligent software and design.”
3D printer ping.
Like a “central nervous system” for stuff.
Wow, that’s really cool. This could be really useful for biomedical research.
...and building our future slavemasters...
This is birth of the singularity...
3D printing is a revolution whose impact and scope has not yet been quantified. It may not equal the industrial revolution, but it will come close to it. The next area being explored is making human body parts.
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/06/16/organs-3d-printing
I read somewhere that they can now 3D print DNA molecules.
BFLR
This is the kind of stuff that leads me to believe that the USA is going to get much richer in the coming decades because this — in combination with several energy revolutions will alter worldwide capital flows in favor of the USA.
If the US wants to benifit from the Huge prospects these new technologies offer it must follow one simple rule: Stop exporting everything for detailed analysis to ```king China!
(Please excuse my “Saxon”, but it really does hack me off.)
I wonder how much fettling a 1911 produced in that manner requires to make it work properly?
You’re preaching to the choir.
Would that we had more say in the matter.
Best we can do is elect more conservatives and pray to God they don’t sell out the country first chance they get like everyone else seems to do.
The next area being explored is making human body parts.
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2014/06/16/organs-3d-printing
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imho that’s going to be standard operating procedure in 10-20 years.
If you can stay healthy that long, they’ll give you another couple decades of active life — if you want it.
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