Experiment: Superworms & Styrofoam
3d recycling

Experiment: Superworms & Styrofoam

Filabot was born from the recognition that our planet was facing a critical problem in the form of an ever-increasing and already staggering amount of plastic waste. The entire Filabot product line...
Casting Part II : Investment Casting from 3D Printed Wax
EX2

Casting Part II : Investment Casting from 3D Printed Wax

This is the follow-up to a two-part blog installment, the first part of which was shared last week. If you didn’t catch the first post, you might want to go here  and read from the beginning! Where...
Casting Part I : Printing with Wax
EX2

Casting Part I : Printing with Wax

Working within the umbrella of additive manufacturing offers the unique opportunity to utilize the technology you have created as a tool to aid further development and support new products. Perhaps...
Wood Fill PLA Pellets Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report
EX6

Wood Fill PLA Pellets Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report

Here is one for all you additive addicts out there! Wood and plastic are often placed conceptually as antithetical materials due to their contrasting qualities- endlessly variable vs.. homogeneous ...
Printing with Coffee Part II
3-D Printing

Printing with Coffee Part II

After diving into the research on compounding PLA with spent coffee grounds accomplished at Washington State and assisted by our Filabot EX2, our brains were buzzing with the idea of making some of...
Looking to the Future : Polymer Composites for Specialized Applications
3-D Printing

Looking to the Future : Polymer Composites for Specialized Applications

3D prints capable of shielding radiation? It's not science fiction, it's just science- compound polymers created with ABS extruded with bismuth and PVDF! As an emerging technological field, 3D prin...
NEW PRODUCT: PLA LX175 EX6 Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report
EX6

NEW PRODUCT: PLA LX175 EX6 Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report

We care about the materials we sell and the success of using our machines. This report was done with very extensive testing beyond what we typically do with the lab testing service we provide but a...
NEW PRODUCT: PLA LX175 EX2 Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report
EX2

NEW PRODUCT: PLA LX175 EX2 Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report

We care about the materials we sell and the success of using our machines. This report was done with very extensive testing beyond what we typically do with the lab testing service we provide but a...
PLA 3D870 EX2 Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report
EX2

PLA 3D870 EX2 Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report

Virgin 3D870 Polylactic Acid (PLA 3D870) was extruded in the EX2 to compare the tolerances of the polymer with different Filabot Accessories. From testing, we saw that the tolerances of the materia...