3D Printed Hair: Fused Deposition Modeling of Soft Strands, Fibers, and Bristles
summary
A method turns the common FDM stringing bug into a controllable way to print strands by issuing short extrusions and pulling the head away on an unmodified desktop printer, demonstrated with a Printrbot $300 using PLA and repetier-host G-code to tune temperature, extrusion amount, head path and speed. Outputs include Gandalf beard, troll fur, brushes and a 3D printed Scott Hudson; it works but is slow, limited by 100×100 mm bed limit, molten sticking and coarse extruder diameter.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:55Industrial Techniques
- 4:39Tutorial
- 5:12Parameters
- 5:48Termination
- 7:16Design Space
- 8:14Post Processing
- 8:57Example Output
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