 So we're here with the orbital composites, and who are you? Yeah, so I'm Cole Nielsen from Orbital Composites. This is a carbon fiber extruder. This is designed to enable you to 3D print copper wires, carbon fiber, and pretty much any long strand. So actually what comes out of this machine is a plastic sheath with a long fiber like this one here. And then basically you feed in traditional plastics into the nozzle this way. And then long fibers actually go through the nozzle and come out here. So this is a 3D printer? This is a 3D printer tool, yeah. But where does it go? Well, this can go on any printer. So the thing is that we can then put this on a CNC machine. We could put this inside of another 3D printer that's more conventional. And did you 3D print this machine? Yeah, I printed most of this. So you printed the printer? Yeah, yeah, the whole rep wrap dream, right? So then actually we can take this and that's how these tubes were made. These long carbon fiber tubes were actually wrapped using this tool. So what we're looking at here is carbon fiber encapsulated in ABS, wound over an ABS mandrel that's left in place. The stiffness of this object is extremely high. It's very, very... So it's not going to break? Well, I mean, eventually. Eventually? What other stuff are you showing here? Sure. So when we started printing with the carbon fiber, we actually have a nozzle. This is the inside of the nozzle. And so basically what ends up happening is the plastic goes into the nozzle through here and then begins to swirl around and turns into a tube. Then the long strands go down the center. If you imagine how you insulate wire, that's basically how this works. Except we move this through space and that's how we end up printing with a continuous strand of something. Of something. Anything you want. Carbon fiber, copper wire, fiberglass, fiber optic cables, various, various objects. All right. What is that? So this is actually a new kind of filament driver because what we noticed is that when you have a traditional... Yeah, sorry. You're going to edit, right? No, no, no. No problem. So what, how does it work? Well, let me show this one first. So this is a traditional filament driver mechanism. And if you look inside there, you can actually see that there's all this plastic dust inside. And so what actually ends up happening is if you look, you have a round driver mechanism or hob and then you have a round idler bearing on the other side. Now the filament goes through in a straight line and the problem there is that the surface area point of contact between two round objects is zero. So the only thing that's actually driving the plastic through the tool are the small serrated teeth on this driver mechanism. The problem with that is you're only able to use between one and three at a time. And so the issue with that then becomes that if you have too much back pressure inside the system, then it ends up stripping the filament. And then you have a failure. The build stops in place. The other part of this is that when the back pressure increases, it tends to open this, which then of course causes it to fail yet again. So in order to solve this problem permanently, so you have a solution. We have this. So did you invent this? We did. This is our really high force, high pressure filament driver. And so the way this one actually ends up working is that instead of using the point of contact between two cylinders, we're actually wrapping the filament around the drive wheel. So instead of between one and three teeth driving the plastic, now we have about 40. And so the point is with that that we have a lot more friction through all these little teeth. We have a lot more friction. And then the pressure here is about 10 to 15 pounds. The other thing is that when these bearings end up being pushed away from the wheel, if I press this one away from the drive wheel, this one presses harder. If I press these two bearings away from the drive wheel, these two press harder. And so then what that means is that when this would traditionally begin to fail, this one actually gains driving force by increasing the friction internally. So this enables us to really, really drive the plastic. That means that we can start adding transmissions and much, much larger motors to drive the same filament as before. So the result is that inside of our tool, we end up with much higher pressures internally inside the tool. And then as a consequence, you can print faster. But more importantly, the failures that generate in this area traditionally are stopped permanently. We want to blow fuses on the motherboard because this motor is too big. That's the correct way to solve this problem. So this is our driver. This will be available quarter one of next year, 2016. What are you going to put this? This is actually a plug and play device. It's using a traditional filament driving motor. And this guy is going to be just plug and play with every desktop machine that's out there. So your company is upgrading 3D printing? This is about what you do? Right, right. So these are some of the novel technologies that we've generated. So basically the coaxial extruder, which is this guy here, this is what enables us to print continuous fibers. And so this actually enables 3D printers to create end-use parts. Then the next, one of the other tricks that we have here is capillary injection molding. And the idea with this one is this enables us to actually, if we add short chop fibers into our injection material, into our epoxies that we're injecting, we can then actually get fibers to be aligned with the z-axis across the print layers, which dramatically increases the print quality, the end strength. But the other part of that is, think about how fast you can push a cylinder, push a syringe. You can actually build a lot quicker by printing out a very thin shell and injection molding it in place so that you end up creating a much more solid object very, very quickly. Transition over here. So what's going on here? Well, let's talk about this first. Yeah. So these are our 3D printed carbon fiber table legs. These are actually made with the coaxial extruder. And, yeah, I guess that's about it. All right. Okay, so we can talk about this guy. So this is just an example drone. If you look at it, what we see is that non-structural elements are actually made out of 3D printed plastic. So, you know, we've got this stuff, computer box, but really nothing that's truly, truly important. But so orbital composites is made up of a group of aerospace engineers looking for a better way to do business. And so the one key thing that we noted about 3D printing in general is if you ask most printer companies, you know, well, what can you make? The answer is anything. But what they really mean is mostly prototypes in about this shape most of the time. Mostly stuff that doesn't launch into space. Mostly stuff that is not end-use. Our goal is to be able to very specifically print one thing well. Drones and satellites. They're almost exactly the same object. So because we have specificity, we can achieve excellence. Because we can then print these things better than you could normally do. You can print that? That's what we're going to do next. Because we have a carbon fiber tube here. This is a carbon fiber tube. But here's the trick of coaxial extrusion. If you look at this drone in general, it basically breaks down to three basic elements. You have carbon fiber, copper wire, and some form of plastic. The insulation is silicone. The epoxy is some form of plastic. These parts are thermoplastic. And so the point is if you can master those three elements, then you have the ability to create about 80% of this aircraft in a single piece, in a single print. And so that actually ends up being a tremendously powerful tool. So we have a coaxial extruder. How soon is that possible? What's that? How soon is it possible to print all this? We're rapidly going down the development path. So about a year or so, we should be able to print pretty much all of this. Notice that we've already printed out a carbon fiber tube. All we have to do is increase the density of the carbon and then we're starting to make this. Flat plates are one of the other things. But what's really cool about this is that we can also take all this wiring. Look at all this wiring that's on there. It's a tremendous amount of wire on every single drone that's out there because they're electric vehicles. And so if you actually start to print these in, that means you can print with a lot less carbon. And you can actually save a tremendous amount of space. This makes the aircraft lighter and faster. So here at the ID Tech Act Show and in general, so what are you looking for? Connecting with companies? So we're really looking for, I guess to find clients to be interested in using our printer drivers as well as to form strategic partnerships so that we can end up getting our tools into the hands of other printer companies and finally to the end consumer. Our long-term vision actually is to 3D print satellites in orbit because we've noted that if you can print out carbon fiber or copper wire, that means you can also start printing out antennas, your circuit boards, your structures, a lot of things that you need. So then if you just put your batteries, your solar panels and your computers, you just drop those into your aircraft or spacecraft, then you can actually start to print things in orbit. For example, it takes about two years to get a football-sized satellite into orbit. But if you could print it in space, you could have it done in about two days. It's completely changed the shape of a small company if they want to do satellites for their business model. So you plan to bring the 3D printer to space? Correct. And then you need to bring the materials to put in a printer, right? Right. So we're going to take pretty much everything up there and a stand-alone device, no astronauts needed, and go ahead and just print everything out and then basically throw it. You could go to Mars, right? Anything on Mars? I mean, that's our destiny. I guess the Martian would have been useful for him. That's his tale from the future. We'll be there soon enough.