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What is a 3D printer? 3D printers are not your average
printer They bear little resemblance to today's
document or photo printers, They can build objects from scratch—or
rather, from a CAD or 3D scanner file—out of a variety of materials.
How does it Work? A typical 3D printer is very much like an inkjet printer operated
from a computer It builds up a 3D model one layer at a time, from the bottom
upward, by repeatedly printing over the same area. The printer creates a model over a period of hours by turning a
3D CAD drawing into lots of two-dimensional, cross-sectional layers
Most 3D printers essentially works by extruding molten thermoplastics (mostly ABS) through a tiny nozzle that it moves around precisely under computer control.
Is not necessarily need to print in 3D with plastic: in theory, you can print objects using any molten material that hardens and sets reasonably quickly
ABS has a whiteish-yellow color in its raw form, but pigments can be added to make it virtually any color
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Uses of a 3D Printer
A new technique has been created that prints out artificial blood cells
Designed by scientists at Germans' Fraunhofer Institute
The technique involves printing artificial biological molecules with a 3-D inkjet printer, and then zapping the those molecules with a laser that forms the material into the shape of blood vessels. Like real blood vessels, the artificial vessels have two layers and can form complex branching structures.
Uses of a 3D Printer - Medicine