This article from The Engineer about using inkjet technology for drug delivery via skin patches has prompted me to to note some of the other uses of inkjet printing for fabbing the weird and wonderful that I’ve accumulated:

• Bones and skin
• Parts for your heart
• Electronic circuits
• Microchips

Also from the The Engineer, an article noting the use of fabbing for the production of customised motor bike seats, with some interesting reflections on the future of fabbing (here called Rapid Manufacturing, RM) in mainstream manufacturing:

RM’s most fervent proponents believe that the technology could ultimately become a mainstream production route - with RM machines sited everywhere from your home-office to the local garage reshaping the world of manufacturing as we know it. If this vision becomes a reality it could even ultimately help to reverse the trend of production moving to low labour cost economies.

Torben

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 1:38 pm and is filed under Fab@School. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.