{"id":139971,"date":"2022-05-30T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T14:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/a-novel-3d-printing-technique-produces-objects-out-of-resin-in-mere-seconds"},"modified":"2022-05-30T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T14:26:14","slug":"a-novel-3d-printing-technique-produces-objects-out-of-resin-in-mere-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/a-novel-3d-printing-technique-produces-objects-out-of-resin-in-mere-seconds","title":{"rendered":"A novel 3D printing technique produces objects out of resin in mere seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-novel-3d-printing-technique-produces-objects-out-of-resin-in-mere-seconds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineers at EPFL\u2019s Laboratory of Applied Photonic Devices (LAPD), within the School of Engineering, have developed a novel 3D printer capable of fabricating objects almost instantaneously in opaque resin, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/actu.epfl.ch\/news\/objects-can-now-be-3d-printed-in-opaque-resin\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to a press release<\/a> by the institution published on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>EPFL claims its new 3D printer is one of the fastest in the world. It achieves this speed by replacing <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/why-companies-steadily-embrace-additive-manufacturing\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/why-companies-steadily-embrace-additive-manufacturing\">additive manufacturing<\/a> with a new volumetric method.<\/p>\n<p><b> A Star Wars-inspired test<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pour the resin into a container and spin it,\u201d said in a statement Christophe Moser, a professor at LAPD. \u201cThen we shine light on the container at different angles, causing the resin to solidify wherever the accumulated energy in the resin exceeds a given level. It\u2019s a very precise method and can produce objects at the same resolution as existing 3D-printing techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineers at EPFL\u2019s Laboratory of Applied Photonic Devices (LAPD), within the School of Engineering, have developed a novel 3D printer capable of fabricating objects almost instantaneously in opaque resin, according to a press release by the institution published on Monday. EPFL claims its new 3D printer is one of the fastest in the world. It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139971","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}