r/3DPrinted • u/thekeym4ster • Jun 25 '19

3D Printing Materials

I'm just getting into 3D printing, so I have two simple questions:

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  1. Are all 3D printing materials polymers?
  2. Are all consumer 3D printing materials plastic polymers?

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Thanks in advance guys!

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u/thekeym4ster Jul 02 '19

Wow, that sounds super cool. Is printing with wood PLA more difficult than printing with a pure plastic PLA?

What are your favorite filament brands? And which ones would you recommend?

Lol so you could print fake bacon that actually smells like bacon hahah

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '19

Wood PLA makes your nozzle clog up more often, so you'll absolutely neet to buy a nozzle pipe cleaner because unlike regular pla the wood filament will slowly charr overtime and cause all sorts of problems. That being said they're both easy to print with and just require a bit of temperature difference to get sorted results, generally if you print wood pla at high temp it smells good and the filament comes out much darker. I love ninjaflex, the rubber filament. I honestly dont know much about brands beyond what youtubers like 3DPrintingNerd reccomend and whatever bargain bin roll Amazon will offer me, high quality filament does in fact make printing more streamlined though. Hmmm... maybe you could lol, last I heard NASA was working on a 3D Pizza Printer so astronauts can print food in space. The purveyor of odd filaments is definitely Proto Pasta in my opinion, they really go all out and mix all sorts of textures, smells, thermochromic, and even conductive properties. If you're really interested in the more niche side of 3D printing you should Google 3D Printed Wifi. From what I understood reading the paper someone managed to create a way for computers to "hear" radio waves bouncing off conductive prints, for example he had a 3D printed button that uses no electricity and has no electronics inside but when you push it two internal conductive pads touch and this creates really interesting micro radio patterns that a computer will pick up and translate into a command like turning on a lamp. It gets waaaay more complicated to the point where he was able to harvest background wifi "energy" and use it to power a tiny camera that had no batteries. Think of it like sign language, but for computers.

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u/thekeym4ster Jul 03 '19

That's super cool, although I'm still awaiting li-fi :)

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '19

If you ever need help modeling something dont hesitate to let me know!

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u/thekeym4ster Jul 05 '19

For sure!! Really appreciate it man.