Turn Your Smartphone into 3D Printer Using OLO
You never know where a technology can lead you. A US-based company has designed a portable device that lets you turn any smartphone into a 3D printer using the light from the touchscreen to process your plastic creations. This is something very interesting. We have already seen some smartphones with projector type display but that has now became an old news. There were many flaws in such smartphones like battery and heating problem.
The gadget called OLO is designed to be simple to understand and operate, and is battery-operated and fully portable, weighing just 780 grams. This is so portable that it can even fit into your bagpack or satchels. ScienceAlert reported citing Kickstarter, the company which helped develop the creative device.
Once an object has been loaded on the OLO mobile app, users then place the smartphone in the base, the company said. The resin chamber, which offers 400 cubic centi-metres of printing volume, rests directly above to hold the desired resin of choice, they said.
The device consists of three parts: A reservoir, which holds 400 cubic cm of printing volume; 100-gram bottles of colored photo-polymer resin to build your objects with; and a mechanized lid, under which the build plate and control electronics are tightly arranged.
The company OLO 3D based in San Fransisco, US found something completely new, which is currently named "daylight resin." This photo-polymer is designed to react to white light emitted by smartphone screens, curing as a result of exposure.
All of the software processing is handled by the OLO app, available for iOS, Android, and Windows. There is no manual leveling or calibration required, the company said.
First, you have to load a schematic of your object into the OLO mobile app (available for iOS, Android, and Windows) and then fit your smartphone into the base under the reservoir. A piece of polarized glass is installed into the base, which your phone's touchscreen will be facing when set in place.
Once you place the lid on top and the printer starts going, the app makes your phone's screen light up with a specific pattern. The polarized glass then takes all this light (which shines outwardly to give your phone a wider viewing angle) and redirects it so that all the photons are travelling straight upward.
Cheers!!!
The gadget called OLO is designed to be simple to understand and operate, and is battery-operated and fully portable, weighing just 780 grams. This is so portable that it can even fit into your bagpack or satchels. ScienceAlert reported citing Kickstarter, the company which helped develop the creative device.
Once an object has been loaded on the OLO mobile app, users then place the smartphone in the base, the company said. The resin chamber, which offers 400 cubic centi-metres of printing volume, rests directly above to hold the desired resin of choice, they said.
The device consists of three parts: A reservoir, which holds 400 cubic cm of printing volume; 100-gram bottles of colored photo-polymer resin to build your objects with; and a mechanized lid, under which the build plate and control electronics are tightly arranged.
The company OLO 3D based in San Fransisco, US found something completely new, which is currently named "daylight resin." This photo-polymer is designed to react to white light emitted by smartphone screens, curing as a result of exposure.
All of the software processing is handled by the OLO app, available for iOS, Android, and Windows. There is no manual leveling or calibration required, the company said.
First, you have to load a schematic of your object into the OLO mobile app (available for iOS, Android, and Windows) and then fit your smartphone into the base under the reservoir. A piece of polarized glass is installed into the base, which your phone's touchscreen will be facing when set in place.
Once you place the lid on top and the printer starts going, the app makes your phone's screen light up with a specific pattern. The polarized glass then takes all this light (which shines outwardly to give your phone a wider viewing angle) and redirects it so that all the photons are travelling straight upward.
Cheers!!!
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