This post is about repurposing a commonly available inexpensive optical 3D printer filament sensor/detector ... This is why nowadays we can also see more advanced filament sensors made with rotary ...

[airtripper] primarily uses a Bowden extruder, and wanted to be a little more scientific in his 3D printing efforts. So he purchased a force sensor off eBay and modified his extruder design to fit it.

In 3D printing ... A common solution is to use a sensor to measure the distance to the bed and form a mesh correction. Then, as the printer head moves in the XY plane, the software will adjust ...

Makerbot unveiled a new extruder for its 5th generation 3D printers today ... thermal management system and added more accurate print sensors to further boost performance. "The advances we ...

Each of these layers can be visualized as a thinly sliced cross-section of the object. Image Credit: Superior Sensor Technology 3D printing is the total opposite of subtractive manufacturing, which ...

A newly-developed 3D printing technique could be used to cost ... But for more specialized manufacturing of sensors in smaller volumes, such as accelerometers for aircraft and vibration sensors ...

Anker didn’t exactly knock it out of the park with its first 3D printer ... M5C does still have a filament runout sensor — but it’s in the print head. The one that sometimes didn’t ...