#3D: "TI brings HD to 3-D printing"

3D printing promises to enable personalized products, the most important of which is "personalized bobbleheads"--where you can put yourself of loved ones on a bouncing doll. But seriously, the future of 3D printing is bright with a wide variety of applications looming for making manufacturing accessible to almost anyone as 3D printer prices plummet: R. Colin Johnson


3D printers enable computer aided design (CAD) software to directly manufacture one-off products,

Here is what EETimes says about 3D printing: Texas Instruments said this week it is adapting its HD digital light processor (DLP) chipset for rapid prototyping systems that can print 3-D objects. By optimizing the DLP for UV light, the surface of a receding photo-activated polymer can be formed into 3-D objects for custom and one-off precision manufacturing. UV-optimized DLPs are also used for exposing photo-active resists in pc boards with a virtual mask, laser repairs and computer-to-plate printing.

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