LaCir: A Multilayered Laser-cuttable Material to Co-fabricate Circuitry and Structural Components

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Rapid prototyping is an important tool for designers, but many fabrication techniques are slow and create bulky components requiring multiple machines and processes to achieve desired device shape and electronic functionality. Prior work explored ways to ease fabricating shapes or designing electronics, but we focus on creating shape and electrical pathways at the same time from a single material and machine. LaCir leverages a three-layered, laser-cuttable material to incorporate circuits into the structural substrate of the design using laser cutters. Our substrate features a layer of conductive material sandwiched between thermoplastic sheets, allowing designers to cut electrical traces and assembleable, 3D object geometry in a single pass. We evaluate different composite materials, weighing their cuttability, ease of assembly, and conductivity; we also show using fully laser-cut joints as structural and electrical connections. We demonstrate LaCir's flexibility through several example artifacts.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelCHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
Antal sider10
ForlagAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Publikationsdato2024
Artikelnummer340
ISBN (Elektronisk)9798400703300
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2024
Begivenhed2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024 - Hybrid, Honolulu, USA
Varighed: 11 maj 202416 maj 2024

Konference

Konference2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024
LandUSA
ByHybrid, Honolulu
Periode11/05/202416/05/2024
SponsorACM SIGCHI

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by a Novo Nordisk Fonden Starting Grant under grant number NNF21OC0072716. We also thank Konstantinos Poul Papanikos and Federico Ceciliani for their help in the lab.

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