MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process — team only needed to magnetize the linear motor after printing, motor

MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process — team only needed to magnetize the linear motor after printing, motor

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Sam Hobbs How much does such a device cost, or will it? How does that compare to the cost of manufacturing the motors using traditional technology? This will likely be useful for custom-made motors but can this be cost-competitive with traditional technology for mass production? Reply

Edric26 This is awesome, but if the new legislation meant to stop people from 3d printing guns kicks in it's going to squash this sort of innovation. Reply

timsSOFTWARE Edric26 said: This is awesome, but if the new legislation meant to stop people from 3d printing guns kicks in it's going to squash this sort of innovation. I don't know how they would ever be able to stop people from 3D printing guns – is the legislation banning building your own 3D printer? I would assume people who want to print that kind of stuff illegally will go low-tech on the printer side with DIY options, or hack/jailbreak the hardware/software. The obvious application for this type of thing is printing complete units – useful for robotics, etc. – moving toward the sci-fi version where someone resin-prints a whole robot body/it arises from a vat. It may not be more efficient from the standpoint of building the motor itself, but it may be more efficient from the perspective of being able to build the whole assembly in one-shot. And in that future, replacement may be favored over repairability. Reply

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