{"id":21051,"date":"2016-01-21T14:01:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T22:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/how-to-modify-a-3d-printer-to-print-high-performance-products"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:52:35","slug":"how-to-modify-a-3d-printer-to-print-high-performance-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/how-to-modify-a-3d-printer-to-print-high-performance-products","title":{"rendered":"How to modify a 3D printer to print high-performance products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TVu_OSigOhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ultrasonic waves form microscopic glass fibers into a pattern of lines, collectively creating a reinforcing microstructure that gives the printed component increased strength. (credit: Tom Llewellyn-Jones, Bruce Drinkwater and Richard Trask) <\/p>\n<p>University of Bristol engineers have developed a new type of 3-D printing that can print strong composite materials.<\/p>\n<p>The new method is based on a modification of an off-the-shelf 3D printer: mounting a switchable, focused laser module and an ultrasonic alignment apparatus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/how-to-modify-a-3-d-printer-to-print-high-performance-products\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultrasonic waves form microscopic glass fibers into a pattern of lines, collectively creating a reinforcing microstructure that gives the printed component increased strength. (credit: Tom Llewellyn-Jones, Bruce Drinkwater and Richard Trask) University of Bristol engineers have developed a new type of 3-D printing that can print strong composite materials. The new method is based on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21051","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44404,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21051\/revisions\/44404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}