Scientists are currently developing new materials that could in the future allow people to print in their own homes personalized electronic components such as game controllers that perfectly fit the shape of their hands.
Scientists are currently developing new materials that could in the future allow people to print in their own homes personalized electronic components such as game controllers that perfectly fit the shape of their hands.
Researchers from the University of Warwick have developed a simple and cheap conductive plastic material that can be used to make electronic devices for hobbyists and people at home, using the latest generation of cost-effective XNUMXD printers.
The new material, known as "carbomorph", allows its users to produce electronic arrays and sensors as part of a 3D printed structure - which allows the printer to produce, for example, touch-sensitive surfaces that can be connected to a normal electronic circuit. To date, the team of researchers has used the innovative material to print objects in which flexible sensors or touch-sensitive buttons are embedded, such as computer game controllers or a mug that indicates its filled volume with the help of a special detector. The next step will be to print much more complex electronic structures and components, including wires and cables used to connect the devices to computers.
Says the lead researcher: "It always amazes me to see the complex and complicated models of devices such as mobile phones or TV remotes that can be produced with a 3D printer, but they are still as their name - models - do not really function in the practical world. "We asked to find a way in which we could print In practice, electronic devices function with the help of a 3D printer. In the long run, this technology could bring about a revolution in the way we produce the world around us, while making personal electronic items in a more customized and unique way, at the same time as reducing waste in the electronics industry.
Our technology can also help product designers better understand how humans use their sense of touch to operate products by controlling detectors embedded in the accessories themselves. Also, the technology will be able to improve the acquired experience of engineers during their practical studies.
The great advantage inherent in a XNUMXD printer is that the sockets used to connect to external equipment, such as electronic devices, can be printed using adhesives or conductive paint materials.
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Thanks for a great article! I have always been enthusiastic about XNUMXD printers, and it only gets better 🙂
The gatekeeper - you can only tell in front of the mirror. Who are you to judge people by their writing? Go and don't come back human garbage
It is interesting how on a very specific topic the level of language of the respondents fell into a slur
"Wait a minute"? "short"? They are just the prominent examples,
To this are added sentences without syntax and therefore without meaning,
And the result is a mess.
It turns out that there are also ... rascals here.
Decrease in material quality? The direction (of course according to Moore's law {currently running at a high multiple due to the awakening of this market}) is nano size printers! When you print molecules and not 0.1 millimeter, the quality of the product will be at levels that no company knows how to give you today)
And as far as the existing production lines are concerned, one day they will be minimized and mechanized or disappear.
I still remember when I was young 5 years ago….
They have barely heard of this thing today they are already being actively used ten years from now we will ask ourselves how we hid without it and in another twenty years it will be as obvious as a smartphone today in every home
And in another thirty years we will ask ourselves why we don't try to control and control what we do and destroy ourselves
What I'm saying is that what happened with the quality of the materials that fell to the ground (the old washing machines) will only happen in a big way with this thing
cocooi, maybe another 100 years... At the moment there are no XNUMXD printers that work properly with some types of materials.... There is still a long way to go... besides thinking about the amount of types of materials that need to be kept... in short, there are a lot of problems with this...
This whole business may be one of the biggest economic disasters in the world, because it is clear that, like in the music industry, people will start downloading high-quality prints and the result will be the bankruptcy of all the companies involved in the production of various plastic products