Micro-extrusion Direct Ink Write System
About
This is a cheap high-resolution printing system system that can print a wide variety of highly-filled inks!
It is composed by:
- an X-Y-Z Cartesian gantry
and
- a leadscrew-driven syringe pump.
PRICE BUILD: $600
The vast majority of published studies employing direct ink writing use very expensive (>$15K) gantries with
proprietary software.
We demonstrate its accuracy by printing high fidelity 3D living structures made from GFP engineered bacteria embedded within a thermo-reversible
gel that fluoresce under UV light.
Check the video at the end of this page!
Design
Direct and Assembly Modeling using Fusion 360
Build
Openbuilds Axes - 3D Printed Material Head - Collector Base and Syringe Pump Holder made from PLA
