Zarf Updates: The age of bronze and steel

if interactive fiction zarf myst cyan hadean lands meanwhile igf boston infocom zork (more...)

(I'm not in the 3D-printing scene. I know people who are, though. And it's an interesting story, what the hell. If I can blog about dirty sea shanties, I can blog about the additive manufacturing industry.)

Binder jetted steel with bronze infiltration is no more: the last source has discontinued the technology. All service bureaus that offered this material have taken it down, which tends to confirm my (and their) understanding that no one is continuing it.

20 years we dreamed together. It could do what other binder jetting processes couldn't and can't, and I built my art practice around it. Well, the market has spoken.

If you look back to 2021, a company called Desktop Metal was buying up a whole chunk of the 3D printing industry. That included ExOne, the originator of this particular metal-printing process.

Leave a Comment