{"id":12051,"date":"2014-08-30T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12051"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:13:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:13:24","slug":"affordable-3d-printing-new-materials-new-horizons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/affordable-3d-printing-new-materials-new-horizons","title":{"rendered":"Affordable 3D printing: New materials, new horizons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Adrian Mars \u2014 ZDNet<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"3d-print-adobe-ps\" src=\"\" alt=\"3d-print-adobe-ps\" width=\"620\" height=\"285\" \/><br \/> Cheap 3D printers have had a bad rap. Seen as toys for enthusiasts, most work by squeezing melted plastic filament through a thin nozzle (Fused Filament Fabrication, or FFF), producing what is often dismissed as tat.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is far more exciting: these devices are revolutionising the world of product development, are set to educate a generation and are home to some of the most innovative developments in the 3D printing world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/affordable-3d-printing-new-materials-new-horizons-7000032081\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adrian Mars \u2014 ZDNet Cheap 3D printers have had a bad rap. Seen as toys for enthusiasts, most work by squeezing melted plastic filament through a thin nozzle (Fused Filament Fabrication, or FFF), producing what is often dismissed as tat. The reality is far more exciting: these devices are revolutionising the world of product [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46900,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12051\/revisions\/46900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}