conductive pla

[curious aardvark]

the thing is conductive filament is simply filament with carbon - either nanotubs (expensive) or graphite (cheap) mixed into the plastic.

But as you also need enough pla to make it useable as a printing filament, you just don't get a great deal of conductivity.

If you put enough carbon in to make it practical - it'd be so brittle, it would be almost impossible to print with.

There was supposed to be non-carbon based conductive filament coming out - but that was some years ago and as far as I know, it hasn't ever turned up. :-(

I did do some copper plating, but it's just a real pita.

I have a number of uses for an actual conductivity filament - but so far, what we have just doesn't seem to be that useful.

I don't know how you;d make conductivie plastic, but that's whats needed. An entirely new type of material.

this is worth a read: https://all3dp.com/2/conductive-fila...ands-compared/

It has been a while since I tried any conductive filament, so things might have improved.

looks like there's 2 good ones - $1000 a kg and $2000kg.

Yeah, out of my price range lol

[fcycles]

Thanks, wow i didnt realize it was that expensive. Out of my price range too