Now, before anyone who’s still wrapping their head around 3D printing goes and tells everyone about this new full-colour 3D printer adapter and before anyone who’s overly familiar with the technology goes and yells at us for covering another sketchy botObjects-esque marketing gimmick, just relax for a minute. Two students from the University of Wisconsin at Madison have developed a device that they say allows any FFF/FDM 3D printer to print in “full colour.”
Rather than relying on multiple printheads with different spools of pre-dyed filament, Spectrom is a device that can be attached directly to any FFF/FDM 3D printer to dye clear filament to match a desired colour. Designed by chemical engineering students Cédric Kovacs-Johnson and Charles Haider, the project won both the $10,000 Schoofs Prize for Creativity and the $2,500 Tong Prototype Prize at Madison’s 20th annual Innovation Days.…
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