As desktop 3D printers have inched towards something resembling the mainstream, manufacturers have upped their game across the board. Even the quality of filament that you can get today is far better ...

Building a 3D motor printed motor is one thing, but creating a completely custom servo motor with encoder requires some significant engineering. In the video after the break [365 Robots] takes us ...

Most 3D printer motion sensors are bulky, slow to trigger, prone to false positives, and have a high detection distance meaning a large amount material is extruded before actually detecting a runout, ...

Paul Bupe Jr. of the University of Louisville has developed a sensor called 'OptiGap' that can detect where a cable is bent. OptiGap was created during Bupe's doctoral research, and he explains how he ...

In a multi-year project, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed plasmonic plastic – a type of composite material with unique optical properties that can be ...

Since the first experimental observation of self-channelling intense femtosecond laser pulses in air by Braun and colleagues 1, optical filamentation has been a topic of intense investigation 23,24,25 ...

A modified Filament Motion Sensor module for Klipper 3D Printers. The vanilla module provides little to no information to help you set the best detection length so I updated it with status keeping and ...

Researchers have developed plasmonic plastic -- a type of composite material with unique optical properties that can be 3D-printed. This research has now resulted in 3D-printed optical hydrogen ...

Researchers have developed a flexible optical touch sensor that can simultaneously detect the strength and location of pressure with high sensitivity and stability. The advance in tactile sensing ...