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• Bambu Lab has helped Tandem Ventures develop the WHASER, a 3D printed attachment for a drone that can measure whales. This seems like a nifty tool for researchers. It is...
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Bambu Lab has helped Tandem Ventures develop the WHASER, a 3D printed attachment for a drone that can measure whales. This seems like a nifty tool for researchers. It is also a powerful example of drone-based 3D printing add-ons. We can expect many people in the future to use 3D printing to make assemblies that help drones to wash windows, measure pollution, measure noise, and more. Drones can be low-cost, convenient for measuring, repairing, and maintaining the world. And a lot of these drones can be, at least in part, printed. But the attachments for these are definitely going to have a lot of 3D printed parts. They will be custom, complex assemblies at low volume that benefit from weight savings, an ideal case for 3D printing.
WHASER is an Inertial Measurement Unit, GPS, and LiDAR asse