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https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Fruit-net-machine_620...
But $300 is a lot more accessible than $5,000, and it's a lot more customizable.
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I suspect it would be exceedingly difficult to get enough conductive materials in the mix, while also sufficiently purging to insulate between different traces/threads. Perhaps printing an outfit entirely from conductive threads could be used to create a grounded Faraday cage suit/dress.
Such conductive garments already exist in the form of fencing lamés, and other special-purpose wear which is used by electricians. A fun fact is that whilst wearing a fencing lamé, one is generally impervious to tasers and stun guns.
This seems cool but my imagination doesn’t seem to be working today. I can’t seem to think of any interesting applications of this.
Read somewhere that there’s a whole field of research dedicated to mathematically designed, non-flat textiles. If you think of it, all we do currently is cut and sew flat tiles of deformable cloth to approximate whatever curvature, but if you can print the material with the curvatures embedded it’s an interesting path to explore
They weave different densities and materials in different sections of the upper to make some areas stronger, some more breathable, some stretchy, etc. You may have seen it referenced in some of the recent furor over the Next% carbon midplate.
Finally someone solved the problem of sold out toilet paper in the pandemic
Read somewhere that there’s a whole field of research dedicated to mathematically designed, non-flat textiles. If you think of it, all we do currently is cut and sew flat tiles of deformable cloth to approximate whatever curvature, but if you can print the material with the curvatures embedded it’s an interesting path to explore
Out of curiosity, what printer would they be using for something like this? I've been considering getting a 3D-printer for a while, but I don't know enough to decide which one to get.