Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “CES 2015: A 3D Printer for Electronics”.
Hey this is Mike with make it we’re here at CES 2015 hanging out the voxel 8 booth, we’re demoing, a very impressive technology of 3d printed electronic circuits, so Jack um tell us: how does this work and uh give us a little a little run-through? Yes, so we’ve developed a new 3d printer from the ground up that uses traditional FDM technology, along with conductive paste extrusion of our conductive material. So we co print both the plastic and the conductive material layer by layer to build up a 3d circuit. Okay, so we’ve got one of the printers right here, and this is one of the demo units I see in the video here. What’S going on with this little quadcopter, so in here we have a quadcopter that we printed actually from the ground up. All we had to do was insert the control logic board and the motors we connected the logic board to the motors and to the LEDs and the quadcopter flies perfectly well and then the UM so that the machine itself it has an FTM extrusion head, but it Also has the conductive paste extruder built into it yeah the machine has a traditional FDM head like you’ll, see at many of the 3d printer companies here, but we have a second head that allows us to extrude conductive, paste, okay and we actually developed that paste in Our research lab at Harvard – and that’s really what gives our printer the advantage over these other printers here very cool. Now, one of the things that that I’m noticing – and I think we’re really pretty neat is it looks like there’s cavities that are being printed where the electronics are embedded into the whatever the design is and then the printing continues and encapsulate some. How does that? How does that come about exactly so? We partnered with autodesk to design software that allow you to design your part in 3d.
So you bring in your model, drag-and-drop your electrical components and then just route wires to them, and then our software will handle the rest from there. So it’ll build a void for your component. The printer will pause actually and allow you to insert the component. The whole entire bed is removable, so you can take the bed out, insert the component, put it back in and then click continue and then, when you put the bed back in everything’s in a precise location, obviously so that it can yes, so we have a kinematically Couple bed, which means the bed, goes back exactly where it was with okay, because that would be obviously pretty important. Yes, yes, and you can see on the demo parts around here, including this quadcopter, we remove the quadcopter three or four times you don’t notice any area. Any issues there so how CES going so far CS is going excellently.
We got an overwhelming number of visitors to our booth, we’re very happy with that so yeah. This is one of the more impressive things that I’ve seen this year and I think it’s a really good example of one, the next generation of 3d printing. I love to see people come here and ask me like so what makes you different from these other 3d printers, and once I explain we can do electronics, I love to see their eyes light up and be like wow. I’Ve been waiting for something like that and we actually are finally to the point where we can create that so the printers available now their printer is available for pre-order.
Now we’ll be shipping in the second half of this year. Okay price point $ 9,000: okay website website is www.h. The 2015 whole tree goes well right. Now, we’re focusing on this printer.
We are going to ensure that it works exceedingly well for our customers down the line, we’ll be releasing new materials that we’ll be able to plug and play directly into this printer. So look out for more and more expanded materials coming in the future. I will look out for that very cool all right. Well, thanks jack Congrats, this thing’s awesome and I’m looking forward to a cool 2015 from you guys. .