3D Printing
The new style of printing that has been growing in popularity lately. 3D printing is a very unique way of printing something tangible for you to grab, fold, and hold on to. It makes three dimensional objects into anything you could possible think of. Even many accessories now that you may not even know are 3D printed objects, are in fact 3D materials.
These materials can be made using extrusion deposition, which uses a plastic filament or metal wire that wound on a coil and unreeled to supply material to a nozzle. This nozzle is then used to turn the flow on and off. This process is a fused deposition modeling and is just one type of 3D printing. There are also different sites that sell consumables and resins for different types of 3D printing that produce a different style of printing based on these said consumables. You can even find different colors and whatnot of these consumables for your printing job that can vary what you would like to make.
There are all sorts of 3D printed accessories that people sell and buy all across the internet and in stores that you would never think were not the real thing. There are things from jewelry to even fake human organs that people sell. The news articles and information on 3D printed objects are changing the world and almost becoming a common practice among scientists and researches alike nowadays. 3D printing has come a long way since 1984 and shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. These objects are changing the way we live, changing the way we interact, and even changing the way some scientists conduct experiments that better our everyday methods of living.
The main difference in 3D printing is that the different filaments allow for different ways of printing. A lot of fused filament machines even now offer multiple extruder heads to increase the once slow printing speed of 3D printers. They can be used to print in all sorts of colors and can even make different parts of whatever you are printing simultaneously. This just grows to show the growing popularity and technology in 3D printing and how much of a staple it is making in society.
Whether you are trying to make your first printed objects, are there are a group of accessories you want to make for yourself or as a gift, there is no denying the growing pace of where 3D printing is heading.