The American Voxel8 has a 3d printer built that electronics can be printed. A first version of the device demonstrates the company this week during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
The brains behind Voxel8 is professor Jennifer Lewis of the American university of Harvard. She was previously involved in research on 3d printers for lithium-ion batteries worked. Nowadays she develops with, among others, former students of Harvard the technique to electronics to print.
With the printer from Voxel8 can someone self electronics print. The device can namely not only the housing, but can also with special conductive ‘ink’ electrical circuits to build. Completely automatic, the process is not yet, because it remains necessary to manually chips to the print object to add.
For now the device only casings for drones to develop, but in the long term the printer can also for more specific applications, such as the making of hearing aids. The 3d printer of pla and conductive ink devices up to a size of 10 by 15 by 10 inches. The necessary software runs in the cloud and reads stl, ply, obj, off, and amf files.
Anyone who’s interested, the printer is already in Voxel8 order. The device is however not cheap, because there must 8999 dollar, about 7550 euro, to be deposited. Voxel8 promises that the first printers at the end of this year to the first customers.
