Fabrication Friday

Implementing any kind of new technology can be difficult - now add in the complexity of having intermittent electricity, extreme humidity, and unreliable shipping logistics. These hurdles, among others, are present while attempting to 3D print patient end-use devices in Haiti. Today we hear directly from our friend and clinical partner, Cindy Laurent, a Haitian prosthetist, orthotist, and owner of...

Today I sat down with Spencer Conway who is a 3D Printing Technician for Ascent Fabrication, who's personal hobby involves stunning drone photography (check out Up North Drone Productions!). This light back and forth about our current and past FDM 3D printed projects will give you some insight into what a 3D printing technician does in terms of hands-on work with the printers themselves, and the C...

3D printing...on a conveyor belt?! That's what the Blackbelt 3D printer has perfected - continuous and infinite additive manufacturing on an angle, with several add-on options like: IDEX dual extrusion, roller table for the support of long parts, heated or simply enclosed chamber, pre-drying and during printing drying of filament - the Blackbelt 3D has it all! On this episode we sit down with Pete...

FDM, FFF, 3D Printing - all synonymous for layer by layer fused filament additive manufacturing. This episode takes a deep dive into FDM best practices which we have learned and iterated on over the last 8 years. Slicer settings galore, take your time parsing through each layer of this informational session by 3D printing enthusiast, Joe Fairley, owner of Ascent Fabrication and Certified Prostheti...

On this episode of Fabrication Friday we are joined by Sebastian Schmidt, Product Manager and Co-Founder of PPprint - a polypropylene-focused 3D printing filament manufacturer out of Bayreuth, Germany. PPprint has set out to create the all-in-one seamless solution for polypropylene 3D printing, and they are quickly gaining international attention. Their vibrant color choices, easy to remove suppor...

Today we are joined by Mike Gorski, owner of Filament Innovations, headquartered in Coplay, Pennsylvania. They pride themselves on building large-scale 3D printers, designed and built in the USA. From pellet printers to high-detailed filament printers; fabrication and manufacturing is in their DNA. What makes them different? They develop and manufacture custom 3D printers for their clients. Mike i...