MIT's Four-Extruder 3D Printer Delivers a Working Motor in Hours
TL;DR
MIT researchers retrofit a four-extruder 3D printer to produce a fully functional linear motor using five materials in about three hours, slashing prototype costs to roughly $0.50 and signaling a path toward on-demand manufacturing and replacement parts—even as printing complete vehicles remains far off.
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- 3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines MIT News
- MIT-developed 3D printer can output a fully functional electric motor in a single process — team only needed to magnetize the linear motor after printing, motors cost just 50 cents each Tom's Hardware
- MIT team develop multimaterial 3D printing platform to produce complex electric motors in a single step VoxelMatters
- New 3D printing system fabricates fully functional electric motors in hours Mid-day
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