He also appreciates that the new bushings run quietly, unlike printers with linear bearings that, with linear movements at 120 mm/., are extremely noisy due to friction between the ball bearings ...

And that's the point of this system, to help 3D printers design models with surprising balancing properties. The team says that the next step is to investigate using sand or fluids to balance the ...

Eliminating backlash is awesome for a 3D printer, but it’s not obvious how a thread that gives under excessive load is a plus, unless you’ve crashed your printhead into the bed of the printer.