Pivot to Additive Manufacturing
November 2022 Updates
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Quick Recap
After being in San Francisco over the summer, I’m back in Toronto and I’ve pivoted to working on additive manufacturing.
I’m looking into vibratory fluidization, which is a way of making powder behave like fluid when the container is vibrated.
I’m researching how fluidization can be used as a mechanism for material delivery that would allow metal 3d printers to run much faster. I explain my approach in the video I recorded above.
I've been thinking about testing a basic prototype sometime soon, but I still need to figure out the design, and find a way to get funding.
At a higher level I’ve been feeling a bit anxious because I’ve been out of school for a while, and I feel like if I’m under a time crunch to figure things out.
I’m thinking that I might work somewhere fulltime if my curent focus on 3d printing doesn’t work out.
Bonus: I did some research into how chemical vapor deposition could be used for 3d printing, but ended up not pursuing it because the process wouldn’t be fast enough. I wrote a post with my findings here.
That’s it for this update! If you know somebody I should talk to, let me know!
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