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They sort of lost me when their promo video showed computer renderings of circuit boards. This feels a long way off..
by vessenes 12y ago
They sort of lost me when their promo video showed computer renderings of circuit boards. This feels a long way off..
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- Tloewald 12y agoCircuit boards seem pretty straightforward — you need a substrate material and a conductive material. A lot of the other stuff seemed much more fanciful.
- dmritard96 12y agothrough hole might not be so trivial...
- Tloewald 12y agoThere's nothing simpler than printing a hole. I just did one now using my powers of the mind.
- lnanek2 12y agoWhy would that matter if it is printing the entire board? It is not like it is printing on the board surface, it is printing the entire thing, so it can make a column of electrically conductive material straight through the entire depth as it lays down the rest of that depth with other materials.
- lnanek2 12y agoThey do claim their printers will allow control over electrical properties: > with control over part and material properties beyond those found in other 3D printing processes, from texture, friction, strength, and elasticity, to electrical and thermal properties, and more So you should be able to say one part of the board you are printing is electrical and one part is not. That said, none of this is selling now, so it is all just a marketing gimmick.
- spyder 12y agoYes it's just a long-term vision: "The long-term vision for HP Multi Jet Fusion technology is to create parts with controllably variable — even quite different — mechanical and physical properties within a single part or among separate parts processed simultaneously in the working area..."
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- chromaton 12y agoI met the Cartesian Co. guys at Maker Faire Atlanta. They have a working circuit board printer available for sale right now. http://www.cartesianco.com/ http://www.cartesianco.com/