November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
116 pages
6h 2m
English
Ones to Watch
ONES TO WATCH
Powder is coming to a desktop near you
FUSED-FILAMENT MACHINES ARE HITTING THEIR STRIDE AND RESIN-BASED printers are about to become mainstream. Meanwhile, the next generation of at-home 3D printers will use lasers, heat, or liquid to bind powders into solid materials. This process is self-supporting — advantageous because no extra breakaway branches are needed to hold up dangling parts of your print. It can also work on a variety of materials — we’ll see plastics and minerals at first, but metal-printing machines won’t be far behind. Here are a few to keep your eye on.

Blueprinter
BLUEPRINTER ...