Given the schematic for a simple circuit, make it a real circuit with the base components, some conductive thread, and a 3D printer. No solder, no etching chemicals, no sending away for anything. 3D-Printed Circuit Boards, for solder-free printable electronics Instructable is to serve as the how-to guide for a 3D-printed electronic circuit library implemented in OpenSCAD, 3D-PCB. The article shows the full replication process of a simple analog circuit of a blinking LED made from a few transistors, capacitors, and resistors, a single LED, and a AAA battery. The article also includes a more useful example of an LED flashlight. Here is a nice picture from 3D-Printed Circuit Boards, for solder-free printable electronics article that illustrates how this kind of 3D printed circuit looks like.
3D-Printed Circuit Boards, For Solder-Free Printable Electronics article points out that you just need OpenSCAD 3d-printed electronics library, a 3D printer and some conductive thread. OpenSCAD generates a component holder, and conductive thread wraps it all together — no solder, no etching chemicals, no sending out for anything. OpenSCAD 3d-printed electronics library
OpenSCAD is a software for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It is free software and available for Linux/UNIX, MS Windows and Mac OS X. 3D-Printed Circuit Boards, for solder-free printable electronics article also points out that if you prefer Blender or SketchUp, you can them to help your design process.
Looks interesting.
6 Comments
Juan says:
Seems expensive and difficult. Best:
http://www.auriculares.org/foro/index.php/topic,1929.msg91161.html#msg91161
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Brendan Zick says:
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Mincior says:
The whole fancy presentation of 3D printed circuit boards left aside, doesn’t this strategy reminds more than a bit of the old point-to-point PCB manufacturing method?
But then again, how can you ignore the 3D part when it takes a 3D printer? Aren’t these rather expensive?
tomi says:
Cheapest 3D printers start from 500-1000 US dollars…
It is rather expensive or inexpensive is how you view that.
http://pandodaily.com/2012/06/11/hong-kong-home-to-the-worlds-cheapest-3d-printer/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/255867/cheap_3d_printer_pops_out_parts_with_blazingly_fast_speed.html
http://hackaday.com/2011/11/18/the-cheapest-and-easiest-3d-printer-weve-seen-so-far/
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