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Ink News - Nanotech Printing: 3D Printing Circuit Boards. In case you haven't heard yet, 3D printing is definitely the next big thing in the printing technology industry.

Ink News - Nanotech Printing: 3D Printing Circuit Boards

With a 3D printer, you can print physical objects the same way you print paper documents with popular desktop printers like the Photosmart D110a or the Stylus NX420 printer. In recent development, however, 3D printing technology is reaching the point that it can feasibly handle Nanotech printing, taking the silicon industry to a whole new level altogether. So what is Nanotech printing technology? Right now, 3D printers are still limited to "printing" with ABS, so one of the next big industry improvements will be increasing the ability to produce different types of materials. Many 3D printers already can print with glass, most metals, ceramics, and many other materials. So what is Nanotech printing technology? Of course, our traditional method of manufacturing of circuit boards is far more complex than machining a steel part.

Wiki - 3D PCB Maker - WiESEL. Team Members¶¶ Andrzej ForysAnh LuongJared Pringle Introduction¶¶ Our project was to modify the Thing-O-Matic 3D printer, made by MakerBot Industries, so that we could print out prototype PCBs.

Wiki - 3D PCB Maker - WiESEL

Our goal was to take a Gerber file and use it to print out a PCB on ABS plastic with channels that we could later come back and fill in with a conductive ink extruder. We also wanted to research and test different methods of creating conductive ink with highly conductive properties that would be ideal as a way to create traces but could still be extruded at temperatures lower than the melting point of the ABS plastic. High Level Design¶¶ Our design consists of the Thing-O-Matic which already came with the functionality that allows it to extrude plastic 3D objects using the StepStruder MK7 head. The Othermill: Custom Circuits at Your Fingertips by Otherfab. Share this project Done.

The Othermill: Custom Circuits at Your Fingertips by Otherfab

Blog on 3D Printing News & Innovation. Using an aerosol jet technology, Optomec are able to 3D print electronics onto complex 3D printed structures with conductive nano particles.

Blog on 3D Printing News & Innovation

The potential to add 3D printed conductive components to your designs will be a massive step forward in 3D printing when you can add another level of complexity to the products you design. It will be interesting to see how 3D CAD software will approach this technology, because without the proliferation of software to design these electronic components, the adoption of the technology will be relatively limited. Similar to the ability to 3D print mulit-materials with the Objet Connex machines, it is the software and file handling that is still retarding the adoption of the process at Shapeways.

3D Printed Circuit Boards. 3D-Printed Circuit Boards, for solder-free printable electronics. Component layout: You have a circuit diagram, like the conceptual schematic attached.

3D-Printed Circuit Boards, for solder-free printable electronics

The library currently supports the following features: battery holder (AA, AAA, and coin cell), capacitor, resistor, transistor, 1xLED, 2xLED, base board, peg (and cap, for wrapping and holding things together), an SPST slide switch, and a trace hop (for intersecting threads). This example is of a simple analog transistor circuit which causes an LED to blink. Unfortunately, there is not yet a way to automatically place the components, so you will place each component manually. Spend a few minutes analyzing the circuit, and think about how to arrange it into a grid. I have found the grid layout the easiest for placement and wrapping, but it's by no means the only possibility! I recommend you sketch out the circuit by hand, roughly how you intend to place them (orientation and relative locations). When you are finished, render and export the STL circuit. Making a PC case with 3D printing! - Feature this! on Shapeways Discussions about 3D Printing.

Metrix Open Hardware Lab’s Brainwave RepRap Controller. Located inside Metrix Create:Space at the heart of Seattle, Metrix Open Hardware Lab features a pick-and-place machine and a reflow soldering line for manufacturing open source electronics.

Metrix Open Hardware Lab’s Brainwave RepRap Controller

Its first product, the Brainwave, purports to be the cheapest all-in-one 3D printer control board solution on the market. “I’ve wanted to design my own 3D printer electronics for some time,” writes designer Matthew Wilson (aka unrepentantgeek), “but it wasn’t until I found myself building machines where 50% of the cost was in the electronics that I really threw myself into it.” Brainwave 1.0 supports single-extruder Cartesian and delta-style printer designs, and is designed to be easily patched and repaired. More details are available on Thingiverse, and at the MOHL storefront, linked below. Brainwave Reprap Controller | Metrix.NET, Open Hardware Lab MAKE Volume 34: Join the robot uprising! Raspberry Pi.

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Raspberry Pi

Le Raspberry Pi est un nano-ordinateur monocarte à processeur ARM conçu par le créateur de jeux vidéo David Braben, dans le cadre de sa fondation Raspberry Pi[2]. Cet ordinateur, qui a la taille d'une carte de crédit, est destiné à encourager l'apprentissage de la programmation informatique[2] ; il permet l'exécution de plusieurs variantes du système d'exploitation libre GNU/Linux et des logiciels compatibles. Intro Electronics.