VSSUT students develop 3D printer

SAMBALPUR:Students of VSSUT’s Robotics Society have achieved a new feat in the field of innovation and technology by developing the State’s first low cost fully-customisable open source 3D printer, which creates three dimensional solid object from a digital file.

The prototypes or models of new products and its parts can be created through it. The creation of a 3D-printed object is achieved using additive processes. It is created by laying down successive layers of materials until the object is created. Each of these layers can be seen as a thinly
sliced horizontal cross-section of eventual object. 3D printing is the opposite of subtractive manufacturing and it helps to produce complex (functional) shapes using less material than traditional manufacturing methods.

Barely a decade ago, 3D printers were bulky and expensive machines reserved for factories and corporations. But that was until now. The students have developed the VSSUT 3D v.1.0 in low cost and it will make affordable prosthetic hands, arms and legs for handicapped persons. This could even print 3D low weight gear parts and objects. Even in medical history, 3D printers have brought a revolution by introducing reconstruction of bones, implants and body parts.

Secretary of Robotics Society Shitikantha Bagh informed that they are now working on upgrading it to have a miller and laser cutting machine along with the existing 3D printing.
Attributing the achievement to fellow students Kamlesh Bharadwaj and K Sai Kishore, former secretary of the society Kumar Malla and his classmates Farhhan Adil, Asit Rath and Tushar Chwda, he said students of all branches are free to join the society and pursue the goal.