{"id":196,"date":"2009-03-10T10:24:45","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T10:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/196-3d-printed-circuit-board.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:51:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:51:13","slug":"3d-printed-circuit-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/3d-printed-circuit-board","title":{"rendered":"3D printed circuit board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThis is something I totally forgot to blog about. TNO, a Dutch research institute, is doing a lot of interesting stuff in the field of rapid manufacturing. The work on improving 3D printers as well as doing lots of research and experimentation on processes and materials. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tno.nl\/content.cfm?context=markten&amp;content=product&amp;laag1=181&amp;laag2=148&amp;item_id=463&amp;Taal=2\">Their Rapid Manufacturing department, TNO RM Research is located right here in Eindhoven<\/a>. One of the things they showed me a while back but I totally forgot to share was this: 3D printed circuit boards. This is very far from being a scalable industrial process that we can use but it does point to an interesting future. <\/p>\n<p>The process prints a housing as well as the circuit board itself in one go. The pictures below show you a very simple circuit board that when hooked up to a battery allows the lights to go on. This has huge implications for design and manufacturing and would take 3D printing from a &#8220;nice for prototypes&#8221; technology to a production process that could revolutionize how products are made. If the housing is the electronics form factors and the engineering in a lot of products we use could alter dramatically.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/printedcircuitboard1.png\" class=\"serendipity_image_link\"><!-- s9ymdb:431 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"81\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/printedcircuitboard1-150x150.png\" style=\"border: 0px none ; float: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rail2009731.png\" class=\"serendipity_image_link\"><!-- s9ymdb:427 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"83\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rail2009731-150x150.png\" style=\"border: 0px none ; float: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rail2009761.png\" class=\"serendipity_image_link\"><!-- s9ymdb:428 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"83\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rail2009761-150x150.png\" style=\"border: 0px none ; float: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rail2009771.png\" class=\"serendipity_image_link\"><!-- s9ymdb:429 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"83\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rail2009771-150x150.png\" style=\"border: 0px none ; float: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rail2009801.png\" class=\"serendipity_image_link\"><!-- s9ymdb:430 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"83\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/rail2009801-150x150.png\" style=\"border: 0px none ; float: left; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I totally forgot to blog about. 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