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Digital light processing (DLP) and liquid crystal display (LCD) 3D printing have similarities to stereolithography (SLA) 3D printing; each of these technologies uses a light source to cure the resin. A projector is used to cure photopolymer resins in DLP printing and UV LEDs are projected through and LCD screen for LCD 3D printing.

Designed for use with FDM 3D printers, the 5” capacitive touchscreen display features a resolution of 800 x 480 and comes complete with IPS technology, providing a wider and more comfortable viewing angle. Beyond just 3D printers, however, the full-color Raspberry Pad 5 is also suitable for a variety of other tech applications like smart mirrors, digital photo frames, wall calendars, robotics, and even mini computers.

Eric Zhang, Founder of BIGTREETECH, said, “The Raspberry Pad 5 is an affordable mainboard solution for your 3D printer and other devices. Compatible with all series of the Raspberry Pi CM4 board, the device makes for a perfect main control board system. As well as 3D printing applications, it’s also intended for makers to use in a variety of DIY projects.”

Founded back in 2015, BIGTREETECH has become a big player in the game of 3D printer electronics, specializing in control boards, display screens, and driver boards. Over the past seven years, the company has shipped its products to over 100 countries across the world.

Under its BIQU brand, the firm also develops its own consumer-grade desktop FFF 3D printers. The first of these, the BIQU B1, was launched in June 2020 and shortly after in August 2020, the company launched its flagship BIQU BX on Kickstarter. The final printer in the portfolio is the user-friendly BIQU B1 SE PLUS.

Additionally, BIQU is also home to a wide variety of 3D printing peripherals and add-ons such as extruders, hotends, heat sinks, linear guides, fans, PTFE tubing, timing belts, and even filaments. Just recently, the firm announced the launch of two new high-performance FFF extruder kits – the H2O and H2 500℃.

BIGTREETECH’s Raspberry Pad 5 measures 121 x 75.9mm, while the actual screen size clocks in at 108 x 64.8mm. This is larger than the default touchscreens of most 3D printing systems, so you can expect it to grant users with a more premium-feeling control experience.

The LCD screen comes complete with two buttons on the side for adjusting the display brightness, and another button to flip the screen. It also sports a wide variety of interfaces to provide flexible connectivity options, including HDMI, 40 pin GPIO, RJ45 Ethernet, USB Type-C, three USB 2.0 slots, and a CSI Port.

The HDMI port allows users to connect to an external display of up to 2K resolution, while the USB Type-C port serves several functions. As well as acting as the power supply (5V), it’s also a controller area network (CAN) bus and can be used to flash the eMMC.

The onboard real-time clock module is powered by a separate CR1220 lithium coin battery, safeguarding timekeeping in the case of a power outage. The display also offers electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection to protect devices connected to the USB and network ports from electrostatic hazards.

When integrated with an FDM 3D printer, the Raspberry Pad 5 will need to be combined with a Raspberry Pi CM4 board and allows users to run Klipper firmware.

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LCD vs DLP technology: What are the differences between these resin 3D printing technologies? The liquid resin is contained within a vat, or tank, cured against a build platform, which slowly rises out of the tank as the part is formed, layer by layer. These two 3D printing technologies are quite similar, but here is the main difference: the light source.

LCD printing: A UV light coming from an array of LEDs shining through an LCD flashes complete layers at the resin tank. A screen is used to mask the entire image, only revealing the current layer for curing. LCD 3D printing is a cost-effective resin manufacturing technique to get big and detailed functional parts. This 3D printing technology focuses on mass manufacture and large component 3D printing for resin materials thanks to 3D printers with larger build tray developed by Photocentric for example.

DLP printing: The digital light projector is the light source of DLP 3D printers. The DMD (Digital Micromirror Device) is a component made of thousands of micromirrors that are contained within a semiconductor chip matrix. These micromirrors are used for navigating the light beam projected by the digital light projector.

Additive Innovation (AI), a company specializing in additive manufacturing, is now distributing the innovative 3D Printer with LCD Screens, printers and materials of the renowned English manufacturer Photocentric in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

The LC Magna 3D printer is the largest SLA printer with LCD screen currently available, according to the manufacturer. The innovative device has a 4K Ultra HD screen with 50 micron accuracy and enables a print speed of 13.3 millimeters (mm) per hour. In addition, to a build volume of 510mm x 280mm x 350mm, the printer offers high printing accuracy, allowing component designs with very fine surface textures such as leather or technical patterns to be printed in high resolution.

Photocentric’s daylight and UV resins enable economical production at material costs starting at around 35 euros per kilo. The material can be used for various applications in prototyping, mechanical engineering or in the dental and automotive industries. The materials are used in LCD, SLA and DLP 3D printers, for example, and are also compatible with 3D printers from other manufacturers such as Asiga, Envisiontec, Flashforge, Formlabs, Peopoly and Sprint Ray, according to Photocentric.

In cooperation with CoreTechnologie, Photocentric and Additive Innovation, integrated software for LC Magna machines has been developed. With the so-called Photocentric Additive Tool, 3D models can be read in from common CAD formats and prepared as an exact, intelligent B-Rep model. Special tools for the generation of support geometry, textures, grid structures as well as modeling functions such as offset surfaces, hollowing with or without internal grid structures, 3D cutting as well as scaling and mirroring are now available as a fully integrated and easy-to-use software solution for Photocentric machines.

As a spin-off of the globally successful software manufacturer CoreTechnologie and sales partner of Photocentric, the company Additive Innovation GmbH from Mömbris near Aschaffenburg, which was founded in January 2018, supports companies in efficiently realizing the advantages resulting from additive manufacturing. Additive Innovation’s mission is to provide 3D printing services and optimize additive manufacturing processes. The focus is on quality and the use of state-of-the-art hardware and software tools. Thus, the innovation driver pursues a holistic approach to service, system integration as well as the evaluation and implementation of 3D printing processes in companies. The Additive Innovation team has direct access to CoreTechnologie’s software tools, which are always at the cutting edge, as well as to the cutting-edge know-how of its technology partner Photocentric. This allows Additive Innovation’s innovation team to respond immediately to new requirements with intelligent functions and enable a seamless transition from design and 3D model to 3D print.

Far more than just a device able to make calls, send emails, play music, take pictures, and share those pictures on social media, cell phones are capable of amazing feats when paired with 3D printing. They can be turned into microscopes and other medical devices, and even be used to power a 3D printer. But another trend that’s picking up steam is using your smartphone as an actual 3D printer.

Back in 2015, researchers from MIT were working to develop new algorithms that could harness polarized light from smartphones for 3D printing. That very same year, we first heard about the OLO (now called the ONO), the world’s first smartphone 3D printer. 2015 was clearly an important time for this type of work, as a professor of mechanical engineering at Taiwan Tech also created a smartphone-based 3D printer that year. In just about all of these cases, light emanating from the phone’s screen was used to cure resin, rather than using UV lights.

“Instead of using a laser or a projector to cure the polymer, we use unmodified LCD screens and our specially formulated Daylight polymer,” the company’s website reads. “All other 3D printers that polymerise resin use a combination of both daylight and UV light at considerably higher intensities. We have been able to make this work by developing the world’s most sensitive daylight resins. Utilising mass produced screens designed for use in mobiles, handheld devices enable us to use the highest resolution screens, offering phenomenal value for money, which we can then pass on to our customers. The opportunities are limitless; higher and higher resolution screens becoming available in all formats from mobiles to large format televisions provide the lowest cost imaging systems ever imagined. We call this Daylight Polymer Printing.”

While 3D printing is used for both small-scale and large-scale manufacturing across many industries, Photocentric, which holds patents in visible light curing technologies, believes that the technology still costs too much to be adopted on a wide scale. That’s why the company is focused on using the LCD screens we interact with every day on our TVs, smartphones, laptops, and tablets to transform 3D printing and make it less expensive.

To 3D print an object with resin-based 3D printers, the material is typically cured and hardened with a laser, or a digital light projector. But Photocentric is using LCD screen illumination to lower the cost of 3D printing, so that the technology can be used in more applications.

Now, Photocentric is totally focused on powering 3D printing using the illumination from LCD screens, mostly from the visible part of the spectrum, which is required when it comes to visual display screens. This could be the future of industrial 3D printing someday.

“Today it seems obvious that the highest resolution, largest format and lowest cost digital light source available is the visual display screen we all use in our pockets or on our walls,” said Paul Holt, the Founder of Photocentric. “But it can only work in 3D printing because our photopolymers can harden in light within the visible spectrum.

“We are now doing research into all formats of 3D printers with LCD screens from the nano – using tiny screens from near-eye virtual reality headsets – through to mobiles, tablets, right up to the largest TV screens. In fact, we just won a grant to manufacture what will be the largest 3D printer in the world, based on a 98-inch HDTV screen. Our goal is to change world manufacturing, not just 3D printing, by making 3D printing low cost, large scale and functional.”

In terms of making the technology more affordable, there are millions of LED screens manufactured by the electronics industry. It seems like nearly every quarter, cell phone, tablet, and TV screens change in size and affordability. If this industry takes its cue from Photocentric and focuses its R&D efforts on using these screens for 3D printing, the technology will inevitably become less expensive.

However, don’t expect to use your cell phone’s LCD screen to make large 3D printed objects. Regardless of how ingenious the idea is, the light output will likely be pretty low, and not enough to fabricate big parts. But it could be helpful when 3D printing lots of smaller objects.

“This time we are using light and a binder to fix the shape of a metal rich formulation using light from LCD screens,” Holt explained. “The object will then be slowly heated to remove the binder and sinter (fuse together) the metal. This technology can then be applied to all small-volume manufacturing of metal parts.”

While 3D printing in metal could eventually have a major impact on materials manufacturing, the 3D printing work that Photocentric is doing with metals is still mostly confined to the lab and is not a working solution just yet.

The LCD display controller module is a perfect fit for your Ender-3/Ender-3s/Ender-3 Pro and other 3D Printers. It is very easy to install and you can replace your problematic displays with this brand new LCD display.

Far more than just a device able to make calls, send emails, play music, take pictures, and share those pictures on social media, cell phones are capable of amazing feats when paired with 3D printing. They can be turned into microscopes and other medical devices, and even be used to power a 3D printer. But another trend that’s picking up steam is using your smartphone as an actual 3D printer.

Back in 2015, researchers from MIT were working to develop new algorithms that could harness polarized light from smartphones for 3D printing. That very same year, we first heard about the OLO (now called the ONO), the world’s first smartphone 3D printer. 2015 was clearly an important time for this type of work, as a professor of mechanical engineering at Taiwan Tech also created a smartphone-based 3D printer that year. In just about all of these cases, light emanating from the phone’s screen was used to cure resin, rather than using UV lights.

“Instead of using a laser or a projector to cure the polymer, we use unmodified LCD screens and our specially formulated Daylight polymer,” the company’s website reads. “All other 3D printers that polymerise resin use a combination of both daylight and UV light at considerably higher intensities. We have been able to make this work by developing the world’s most sensitive daylight resins. Utilising mass produced screens designed for use in mobiles, handheld devices enable us to use the highest resolution screens, offering phenomenal value for money, which we can then pass on to our customers. The opportunities are limitless; higher and higher resolution screens becoming available in all formats from mobiles to large format televisions provide the lowest cost imaging systems ever imagined. We call this Daylight Polymer Printing.”

While 3D printing is used for both small-scale and large-scale manufacturing across many industries, Photocentric, which holds patents in visible light curing technologies, believes that the technology still costs too much to be adopted on a wide scale. That’s why the company is focused on using the LCD screens we interact with every day on our TVs, smartphones, laptops, and tablets to transform 3D printing and make it less expensive.

To 3D print an object with resin-based 3D printers, the material is typically cured and hardened with a laser, or a digital light projector. But Photocentric is using LCD screen illumination to lower the cost of 3D printing, so that the technology can be used in more applications.

Now, Photocentric is totally focused on powering 3D printing using the illumination from LCD screens, mostly from the visible part of the spectrum, which is required when it comes to visual display screens. This could be the future of industrial 3D printing someday.

“Today it seems obvious that the highest resolution, largest format and lowest cost digital light source available is the visual display screen we all use in our pockets or on our walls,” said Paul Holt, the Founder of Photocentric. “But it can only work in 3D printing because our photopolymers can harden in light within the visible spectrum.

“We are now doing research into all formats of 3D printers with LCD screens from the nano – using tiny screens from near-eye virtual reality headsets – through to mobiles, tablets, right up to the largest TV screens. In fact, we just won a grant to manufacture what will be the largest 3D printer in the world, based on a 98-inch HDTV screen. Our goal is to change world manufacturing, not just 3D printing, by making 3D printing low cost, large scale and functional.”

In terms of making the technology more affordable, there are millions of LED screens manufactured by the electronics industry. It seems like nearly every quarter, cell phone, tablet, and TV screens change in size and affordability. If this industry takes its cue from Photocentric and focuses its R&D efforts on using these screens for 3D printing, the technology will inevitably become less expensive.

However, don’t expect to use your cell phone’s LCD screen to make large 3D printed objects. Regardless of how ingenious the idea is, the light output will likely be pretty low, and not enough to fabricate big parts. But it could be helpful when 3D printing lots of smaller objects.

“This time we are using light and a binder to fix the shape of a metal rich formulation using light from LCD screens,” Holt explained. “The object will then be slowly heated to remove the binder and sinter (fuse together) the metal. This technology can then be applied to all small-volume manufacturing of metal parts.”

While 3D printing in metal could eventually have a major impact on materials manufacturing, the 3D printing work that Photocentric is doing with metals is still mostly confined to the lab and is not a working solution just yet.

Yes, it is possible. The link the other guys have posted do indeed lead to a working solution to fit an LCD screen onto a Print-rite printer. I ordered all the parts from Banggood for $17 Australian.

Go read the info on that web link, it"s a very good starting point to updating the printer, personally I really like the LCD screen and seeing the temps at a glance, I often forget that it"s an addition as it seems to have always been there and is so useful :o) Also if you look back through the other posts you"ll see when the problems of the wrongly addressed chip cropped up.

Content Abstract:The executive CEO of PengJi Company statement that “LCD light curing 3D printing is on the “Money Way”! The professional Mono Screen Light source of 3D printer will let the world well know CHIAN Manufacturing. Around the world to see, Most of the core technologies of SLA and DLP light sources are in the hands of foreign manufacturers; and LCD light sources, whether in terms of technology or the industry chain itself, China is the absolute core leader.Therefore,from 2019 to 2021 years, with the extremely high cost performance and continuous technological progress, consumer-grade light-curing 3D printer face a great development opportunities and the global annual shipments have soared to over 500,000 units.Another side, the sum of annual shipments based on SLA and DLP technologies just less than 200,000 units.

As the upstream core component of LCD light-curing 3D printing, LCD screen manufacturers have also taken a fancy to this fast-growing market and have made efforts.

The Antarctic Bear learned that On October 20, 2021, Shenzhen International Touch and Display and Shenzhen Electronic Components Exhibition, Pengji Company held the autumn new product conference, and launched a variety of large-size, high-precision 3D printed LCD Mono displays.

The biggest highlight of this conference was the industrial-grade 13.6 inch 7K mono screen with an area of 298.08 * 165.60mm,accuracy of 40um, purple light transmittance up to 10%, contrast ratio of 500, and operating temperature of -20 to +80°C. It means that consumer LCD light-curing desktop-level 3D printers are moving towards industrial-grade professional applications and it will make a rapidly development of LCD light-curing professional applications, and open a new era of LCD light-curing technology into industrial-grade machines. In addition, it has also launched a series core products such as 9.25 inch 6K,the 6.08 inch 2K, 6.23 inch 4K, 8.9 inch 4K that has been mass-production and sold. Pengji has completed all-round strategic blueprint on the desktop-level LCD light curing 3D printing from small, medium to large sizes.

In 3D printing area, Pengji have more than 18 years professional service experience.Pengji has multiple technological invention patents and build a strong technological fortress.

Advancements in 3D printing, along with product complexity and different types of available processes have made it challenging to select the right 3D printer for high-volume manufacturing. Digital Light Processing (DLP) and LCD are two commonly implemented resin-based 3D printing technologies. The following compares DLP vs. LCD 3D printers, their unique features, and the subtle differences.

Resin-based 3D printing technologies (also known as vat-polymerization) such as stereolithography or SLA, DLP, and LCD involve curing a photosensitive resin using a light source that helps solidify the resin and create the printed product layer-by-layer. The post-processing steps include cleaning the excess uncured resin and exposure to UV light for final curing. However, the major difference lies in using different light sources for curing the resin.

Next-generation DLP and LCD 3D printing platforms built on LuxCreo’s LEAP™platform are delivering new capabilities that simplify manufacturing and enable high-volume production. LuxCreo’s LEAP™platform outperforms current DLP, LCD, and SLA printers by developing and tuning software, hardware, and resin to deliver new capabilities: high throughput, maximum batch size, and DigitalPolishing™.

DigitalPolishing™ eliminates 90% of the post-processing polishing labor allowing manufacturers to print clear, transparent parts with no polishing required, eliminating the Achilles heel of SLA, DLP, and LCD vat-polymerization systems.

How it works:In DLP 3D printers, a digital projector screen is used to flash an impression of a layer across the platform. The light is reflected on a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) — a semiconductor chip consisting of microscopic-sized mirrors/ lenses that direct the light towards the bottom of the tank containing the resin. The light defines the coordinate of the voxel (three-dimensional pixel) that is cured within the given layer.

Print Quality:As lenses are used to modify the size of the image, coming from a smaller DMD source to fit a wider print area, there are chances of producing distorted voxels at the edges of the build area. Cheaper DLP printers have issues with uniformity, such as the “flashlight effect,” resulting in higher light intensity in the middle but lesser on the sides. Such issues lead to layers not adhering and poor surface finishes due to under-curing or over-curing.

Applications:With DLP printers, the number of pixels does not change and remains the same regardless of the size of the image. Therefore the precision of printing is impacted depending on the size of the model. The narrower the size of the model, the higher the precision. That is why DLP 3D printers work best for accurate and precise printing of small-sized models with details as fine as .05 mm and are widely used for 3D printing of dental implants, jewelry, footwear, and others.

Speed:The higher intensity of light facilitates faster printing. By utilizing a wavelength of 405 nm with light intensity as high as 20-30 mW/cm2, DLP 3D printers can cure an entire layer at once and require less time to print more parts in a batch. Lower DLP wavelengths, including 385nm, are used to improve clear part accuracy and open up other traditional SLA resins for use on DLP. However, there are advantages and disadvantages to selecting 405nm or 385nm depending on if speed, precision, and/or longevity are the priority.

Pricing:DLP 3D printers traditionally are higher-priced printers vs. LCD printers. For this higher price, industrial Smart Factory DLP 3D printers are designed for volume manufacturing with consistent batch-to-batch and machine-to-machine production. Smart Factory DLP 3D printers provide higher speed, larger build volumes, longer life, and higher precision across large build areas versus LCD printers.

How it works:Unlike a DLP printer which is used as a projector, an LCD printer does not use a projector and deploys an array of UV LEDs as the light source and an LCD to mask (block) UV light allowing only select areas to be cured in the layer. Inexpensive LCD printers utilize cheap light sources that have low uniformity and produce light that is not columnated (aligned with the print area). This results in pixel distortion. LCDs also have a much shorter life versus DLP light engines requiring owners to frequently replace LCD screens, increasing consumable cost versus DLP printers.

Print Quality:Higher quality LCD can produce high-quality prints; however, as LCDs become larger, they have limits on uniformity, and batch to batch, machine to machine variability becomes an issue. Less expensive LCD 3D printers have challenges controlling distortion caused by a lack of LED array uniformity and alignment. If these technical challenges are not addressed, the print quality can be and be worse than in DLP printers.

Applications:Compared to FDM 3D printers, LCD printers offer better printing quality for the same price and are therefore popular for chairside dental or desktop applications. The lower cost barrier makes these printers popular for adopting 3D printing across dental, jewelry, engineering, hobbyists, and other industries.

Speed:Compared to DLP 3D printers, LCD printers are slower and are low in intensity in the range of 3-5 mW/cm2. Conventional LCD 3D printers can not print with high viscosity.

Pricing: LCD printers are created as an affordable alternative to their advanced 3D printing counterparts. With an easily replaceable LCD panel, these printers are customized for small spaces and are desktop-sized for ease of use.

When deciding between DLP vs. LCD 3D printers, a popular perception is that the DLP printers are better than the LCD. However, on a budget, next-generation LCD 3D printers can be the right first step into resin 3D printing, depending on the application-specific applications.

Next-generation DLP and LCD 3D printing platforms built on LuxCreo’s LEAP™platform are delivering new capabilities that simplify manufacturing and provide on-demand access to Smart Factory volume production. LuxCreo’s LEAP™platform outperforms current DLP, LCD, and SLA printers by developing and tuning software, hardware, and resin to deliver new capabilities: high throughput, maximum batch size, and DigitalPolishing™.

LuxCreo’s Smart Factory DLP and LCD 3D printer solve the above problems with traditional DLP and LCD 3D printers supporting repeatable high throughput production of high-performance and high-viscosity materials. LuxCreo’s Smart Factory DLP and LCD 3D printers open up a new category of 3D printers that deliver the fastest, most economical path to volume production.

To improve the performance of DLP or LCD 3D printers, it is necessary to get control over design, software, printer, and resins. LuxCreo’s integrated Smart Factory 3D printing solutions facilitate clear, transparent, faster, and accurate printing with both DLP and LCD printers while also providing the fastest, most economical path to volume production. Our advanced range of Smart Factory DLP 3D printers enables in-house production and provides contract 3D printing services through cloud-connected smart factories.

Luxcreo’s integrated suite of high-performance 3D printing materials, 3D printers, and software help manufacturers simplify high-viscosity 3D printing with Smart Factory DLP and LCD 3D printers. Our intuitive software tuned to our materials and our DLP and LCD 3D printers ensure uniformity, consistency, and accuracy in high-throughput and high-yield manufacturing batch to batch and machine to machine to achieve the highest, most economical production throughput.

SUNLU launched a natural green LCD-3D photocuring material that uses soybean oil as raw material in order to reduce the impact of chemicals on the environment and the human health.