{"id":350,"date":"2020-09-25T18:27:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T01:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/?p=350"},"modified":"2020-09-29T00:49:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T07:49:24","slug":"filabot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/2020\/09\/25\/filabot\/","title":{"rendered":"Filabot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Filabot is a company centered around plastic recycling for 3D printing. Founded in 2011 by Tyler McNaney, Filabot currently has two different filament extruder setups (with the components available separately as add-ons), and various other tools to help with the filament extrusion process available <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filabot.com\/collections\/filabot-core\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here<\/em><\/a> on their website. The benefits of Filabot&#8217;s set-up compared to other brands is the quality and durability as well as the modular design, enabling the team to upgrade and add components as they go instead of overhauling a single machine which would be costly both time-wise and financially for them and the consumer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-right is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Filabot has committed to engineering a more sustainable future by cutting edge miniaturization of industrial polymer processes&#8230; Our products will reduce overhead costs and the environmental impact of next-generation 3D printing&#8230;<\/p><cite>Filabot<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At KPU Richmond, the <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filabot.com\/collections\/filabot-core\/products\/ex6-bundle\" target=\"_blank\">Filabot EX6 Extruder Setup<\/a><\/em> is available for students to use (with limited access), which will be the filament extruder used for this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a short video on the basics of recycling for 3D printing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3D Print Recycling\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ITatWpY8vmA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>3D Print Recycling<br>Video Credits: Filabot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>My Two Sent.&#8217;s<\/strong>: Filabot is one of the leading companies in commercial plastic recycling for 3D printing and I feel honoured and privileged to be able to attend an institution that is forward thinking enough to invest and work with their products. The fact that KPU Richmond had a Filabot EX6 Setup was one of my inspirations for choosing this topic for my capstone project, as it would have been extremely difficult and expensive to pursue without a filament extruder setup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Filabot. (n.d.). OUR COMPANY. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.filabot.com\/pages\/about-us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filabot is a company centered around plastic recycling for 3D printing. Founded in 2011 by Tyler McNaney, Filabot currently has two different filament extruder setups (with the components available separately as add-ons), and various other tools to help with the filament extrusion process available here on their website. The benefits of Filabot&#8217;s set-up compared to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/2020\/09\/25\/filabot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Filabot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,10,31,9,23,7],"tags":[4,5,17,11,12,15,16,20,6],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-pla","category-plarecycling","category-recycling","category-research","category-systems","category-technology","tag-3d-printing","tag-additive-manufacturing","tag-materials","tag-pla","tag-pla-recycling","tag-recycling","tag-research","tag-systems","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/birkzukowsky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}