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What CES had to offer makers and hackers

FEATURE

Here’s the best of what we found at CES 2018 for your Hackspace

What CES had to offer

makers and hackers

T

he Consumer Electronics Show

(CES) is the biggest convention of

its kind every year. But, while most

of the world is waiting eagerly to find

out which new TV has the most Ks,

or how smart toasters have become,

we were there looking for the real treasure. CES is,

as the name suggests, mostly focused on consumer

gadgets, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of

tech to interest makers. Here is the best of what we

saw at this year’s show.

While XYZprinting’s closed-source nature is a turn-off, the pricing of its line-up is hard to resist. It

unveiled two new products at the show: a 3D printing pen, and a new full colour da Vinci AiO. The da

Vinci Color AiO uses an impressive inkjet system to inject colour into the filament as it’s being printed.

It also contains an integrated 3D scanner, which captures colour in order to create 3D models that

take advantage of the colour-printing capability

Formlabs is best-known for its high-quality SLA

(stereolithography) printers directed towards the prosumer

market. Now the company has an entirely new product called

the Fuse 1 that uses an entirely different printing process — SLS

(selective-laser sintering). At $10 000, the Fuse 1 is aimed more

at professionals, but the speed and quality of the nylon SLS

printing may make it ideal for your Hackspace

Formlabs Fuse 1

XYZprinting da Vinci AiO

By Cameron Coward