Reprinted from ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING Magazine
Published: November 2024 Issue
By Peter Zelinski, Editor-in-Chief
ReelView Fishing faced an electronics obstacle in the development of its new technology for underwater video. Additive manufacturing for moldmaking allowed for the speed necessary to iterate to a solution. How inventors and invention will benefit from new ways of obtaining production-ready tooling.
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PROBLEM: For ReelView Fishing and its system for underwater real-time fishing video, that problem was a cable connector. SOLUTION: In the solution ReelView found — developed with the aid of injection molding specialist Alba Enterprises LLC — 3D printed steel mold tooling is used for overmolding around a 3D printed polymer component of the connector.
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