Re: [DIYbio] 3D printing medical devices

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Michael Turner
<michael.eugene.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
>> As far as I remember, the main concern is getting a piezo electric
>> print head over a heating type, where the heat causes the ink to
>> expand and squirt out. This cooks cells and proteins.
>
> Speaking as someone who actually read certain articles that someone
> else here says I completely missed the point of, the problem seems
> instead to be this:
>

It works, just not well. That doesn't mean the technique should be
discarded. I didn't read that article, but I chat with Jordan Miller
often, and have skimmed through his academic publication on the matter
when he first finished it up.

I could very well see the techniques being complementary, on the same
XY gantry even.

--
Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics

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