Yep that’s correct, with ceramic you don’t end up with any plastic in the final product. I’m more familiar with SLA ceramic printers which use a resin, and FDM metal printing that uses a kind of wax, also burned out in a tube furnace.
I more meant that ceramic 3d printing is not automatically $mm, at least after journalism word converter, it can mean just ceramic fdm mass-friendly approach.
Gotcha, yeah unfortunately FDM ceramic still has crazy high spool costs so I don’t think it really puts it into the same ballpark as using simpler materials. We’re talking like $500 a spool, just one printed piece like you see in the picture looks like it would take an entire spool or more and could be the better part of $1K. I’m comparing to Mossy Earth’s strategy of binding together metal rods and coating with sand, which after labor lands at $26 per structure.
Yep that’s correct, with ceramic you don’t end up with any plastic in the final product. I’m more familiar with SLA ceramic printers which use a resin, and FDM metal printing that uses a kind of wax, also burned out in a tube furnace.
I more meant that ceramic 3d printing is not automatically $mm, at least after journalism word converter, it can mean just ceramic fdm mass-friendly approach.
although from 2019 i found they (maybe different they?) used something like cornstarch filament, even friendlier i assume (https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2019/october/3D-printed-coral-study-damselfish-Danielle-Dixson/)
Gotcha, yeah unfortunately FDM ceramic still has crazy high spool costs so I don’t think it really puts it into the same ballpark as using simpler materials. We’re talking like $500 a spool, just one printed piece like you see in the picture looks like it would take an entire spool or more and could be the better part of $1K. I’m comparing to Mossy Earth’s strategy of binding together metal rods and coating with sand, which after labor lands at $26 per structure.