Section: New Software and Platforms

Platforms

Participants : Pierre Bedell, Noémie Vennin, Pierre-Alexandre Hugron.

We continued our active participation within the Creativ'Lab, a common experimental platform funded by Inria, Loria, CNRS and Région Grand Est. We added novel machines (DLP resin printers and large format printers) to explore new problems related to the specificity of each technology. We are also in the process of revisiting some of our techniques in the context of resin 3D printing.

This year we kept developing our custom-made hardware, in particular our color filament 3D printers. In this context we also elaborated our own colored PLA filament (using a filament extrusion device, PLA pellets and pigments). This was instrumental to the success of the corresponding research [15]. Finally, we started the assembly of a 3D printer based on a robotic arm, in the context of our research on curved 3D printing.

We are making these installations available to industrial partners and other research teams.