{"id":74005,"date":"2017-11-30T14:42:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T22:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/new-3d-printer-is-ten-times-faster-than-commercial-counterparts"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:01:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:01:13","slug":"new-3d-printer-is-ten-times-faster-than-commercial-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/new-3d-printer-is-ten-times-faster-than-commercial-counterparts","title":{"rendered":"New 3D printer is ten times faster than commercial counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-3d-printer-is-ten-times-faster-than-commercial-counterparts.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT engineers have developed a new desktop 3D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than existing commercial counterparts. Whereas the most common printers may fabricate a few Lego-sized bricks in one hour, the new design can print similarly sized objects in just a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The key to the team\u2019s nimble design lies in the printer\u2019s compact printhead, which incorporates two new, speed-enhancing components: a screw mechanism that feeds polymer material through a nozzle at high force; and a laser, built into the printhead, that rapidly heats and melts the material, enabling it to flow faster through the nozzle.<\/p>\n<p>The team demonstrated its new design by printing various detailed, handheld 3D objects, including small eyeglasses frames, a bevel gear, and a miniature replica of the MIT dome\u2014each, from start to finish, within several minutes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-11-d-printer-ten-faster-commercial.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;11-d-printer-ten-faster-commercial.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT engineers have developed a new desktop 3D printer that performs up to 10 times faster than existing commercial counterparts. Whereas the most common printers may fabricate a few Lego-sized bricks in one hour, the new design can print similarly sized objects in just a few minutes. The key to the team\u2019s nimble design lies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74005","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\/74005","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74051,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74005\/revisions\/74051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}