{"id":9984,"date":"2014-01-28T13:38:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T21:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9984"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:17:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:17:20","slug":"mark-one-3d-printer-creates-in-carbon-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/mark-one-3d-printer-creates-in-carbon-fiber","title":{"rendered":"Mark One 3D printer creates in carbon fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite>By <span class=\"vcard\"> <a class=\"author url fn \" href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/users\/andrew_couts\/\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Couts<\/a> <\/span> <span class=\"dash\"> \u2014 Digital Trends<br \/>\n<\/span><\/cite><br \/>\n<br \/> We here at Digital Trends are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/ces\/makerbot-pulls-big-guns-three-new-replicator-3d-printers\/\">big fans of 3D printing<\/a>. Like so many others, we see it as one of the most potentially disruptive technologies currently on the market \u2013 something that could substantially change the way we shop, work, and create. Problem is, at the moment, consumer-level 3D printers are mostly an expensive way to make cheap plastic trinkets.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that will soon change \u2013 perhaps sooner than you think. This week, newly launched startup MarkForged announced the world\u2019s first 3D printer capable of printing objects in carbon fiber, the super-strong and lightweight material. Dubbed the Mark One, the 3D printer also prints in fiberglass, nylon, and PLA (the common plastic filament used by many 3D printers).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/first-3d-printer-carbon-fiber\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Couts \u2014 Digital Trends We here at Digital Trends are big fans of 3D printing. Like so many others, we see it as one of the most potentially disruptive technologies currently on the market \u2013 something that could substantially change the way we shop, work, and create. Problem is, at the moment, consumer-level [\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-9984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984","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=9984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47265,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9984\/revisions\/47265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}