loot looks good.
I think I have you beat for number of samples, but what are the the - looks like - full size reels on the left and right ? Look like colorfabb boxes.
Now that's some top class scrounging - nice :-)

Having been to the last 4 tct shows, the noticeable differences this year are in filament development ands the return of the delta !

The mymat guys who made the non-warp nylon last year were back with a vengeance this year. Filaments for food industry that can be boiled and autoclaved, flexible child safe filaments and a few more I'll go into later. Got some more of the nylon and soe of the new stuff.
Mass portal are marketing a range of fully enclosed deltas and had an fdm printed watch.
Not sure what nozzle size they were using for the really small parts, but I'd guess down to 0.1.
The gears were even smaller than the ones I made - but then I used a 0.4 nozzle.

Two filament extruders in evidence. One with three machines that looked like it had been thrown together in a shed. And one lovely looking all in one machine that would do 750gm an hour to a reel in a single box. Wasn't cheap, but very profressional bit of kit.

I've got a whole slew of filaments that are non-pla,abs,petg or any of the common bases.
Some with ludicrous looking statistics for impact, toughness etc.

Had a lot of good chats with material developers, trying to talk someone into developing a conductive filament that isn't based on graphite or graphene. One comoany said they were working on something like that :-)

Best company name: Sodick, really.
They were the ones with the £650,000 3.5 ton machine the size of a large shed. build volume: 150x150x150mm.
So why is the machine so big if the print volume is so small ?
because it contains everything from the tool heads to the atmospehere processing, gs tanks, filters, cooling etc.
What it does is truly amazing.

It prints in powdered metals: even stainless steel.
Prints 10 layers at 50 microns, then mills the part, then prints then mills etc.

So you can produce an item with complex milled interior and a non milled exterior, or any combination thereof.
And that's not possible with any other metal fabrication method.

The whole thing was just amazing.

Most impressive print at the show came from the nutter at 3dfilaprint.com
He printed a full size, fully working pinball table. Frame, bed, the lot. 85 different filament types used, about 1200 hours printing. Phenomenal !

We have no idea what he's going to do next year to top it :-)

Soon as I figure out hot to move pics from the ipad air to the pc I'll post some up.
Sebastien took a lot of the same ones.

Good day, couple of stalls I missed - didn't see the einscan and I didn't find the guys who are using standard lcd screen and daylight setting resin. They can make a resin printer with a 60inch screen !
Or one with 150mm for £700.
One of the guys who works for them is the son of the gateros electroforming chap.

For me, the best new light industrial fdm machine was the leapfrog bolt. Dual independant extruders, fully enclosed hot end that goes to 360c, large print volume and just a gorgeous looking beast of a machine at around the £5000 mark.
I can't think of anything in it's class that comes close for the price.

After 5 hours when your arms are aching from all the filament you're carrying and your feet hurt. it's time to go home :-)

More later.