First, there was BAAM. And, soon, there will be Bertha.
With a huge build volume and an extremely fast deposition rate, the BAAM, or Big Area Additive Manufacturing, machine was built through a partnership between the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and machine manufacturer Cincinnati Incorporated. Since it’s development, the BAAM system, which is a hybrid technology of 3D printing and CNC routing, has made some huge headlines.
Photo by Danielle Matich.
And rightly so, the BAAM machine is so big and fast that it could fabricate the entire body of the crowd-sourced Strati electric car in the span of about two days on the floor of the International Manufacturing Trade Show in Chicago. …
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