3D Printing Extremely Viscous Materials

I'm guessing that Bonnie Raitt could've helped solve this long ago if anybody had just asked her.

Seriously, though, I love that song. Take a few minutes to give it a listen if you haven't before.

More to the topic, though, the idea of 3d printing highly viscous materials would open up a whole lot more possibilities. Heating any polymer filament up to force the polymer through the nozzle leads to complications that could be mitigated apparently with a little shaking.

Plus we get increased opportunities to precisely print with ceramics, cement, even - as the video above mentions - icing.

I wish we'd gotten more of the icing shown.

As always, check out the ASM video of the week.