<figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-center" style="padding-bottom:33.723653395784545%" data-rt-type="video" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="" data-rt-max-height="33.723653395784545%" data-rt-dimensions="854:480" data-page-url="https://youtu.be/DqZHhqThCYU?si=y1EleHj8qImbQeqk"><div id=""><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DqZHhqThCYU" title="Voltera at Circuit Launch: Building Hardware Faster"></iframe></div></figure><h2 id="">Highlights</h2><p id="">Circuit Launch is a company on a mission to create a sense of community for hardware startups working in IoT, VR, AR, and more. It’s made up of 31,000 sq ft of co-working and office space where entrepreneurs can feel empowered to build and test their innovative ideas. The space is made up of electronic and prototyping labs filled with equipment like the <a href="http://www.voltera.io/v-one" id="">Voltera V-One PCB printer</a>.</p><h2 id="">Rapid prototyping with V-One</h2><p id="">The goal was simple — create a space that provides all the basic tools and cutting-edge technology needed for startups to develop electronics.</p><p id="">With supplies like soldering irons, microscopes, DC power supplies, and a V-One, the labs at Circuit Launch have everything a hardware entrepreneur needs to create several design iterations a day.</p><p id="">V-One uses an additive dispensing process that enables 4-in-1 functionality: circuit printing, via drilling, solder paste dispensing, and reflow soldering. It is an easy-to-use and reliable solution for quick PCB prototyping.</p><blockquote id="">“It brings the development time down so low. Being able to take a designed circuit board and within about an hour, we can have it fully assembled. That’s incredible!”<strong id=""><br><em id=""><code id=""><br>- Dan O’Mara, COO at Circuit Launch</code></em></strong></blockquote><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6334888a34bfac03b46aa715/671a4fef7cd4d672855543f2_671a4fc14b8619ddb8a8ec5c_Faster-hardware-development-cycle-rapid-prototyping-vone.webp" loading="lazy" alt="A hand waves at a robot on wheels built at Circuit Launch"></div><figcaption>Figure 1:&nbsp;Interacting with a robot built at Circuit Launch</figcaption></figure><p id="">The V-One PCB printer leverages additive manufacturing techniques to:</p><ul id=""><li id="">Enable on-the-fly design changes without waiting for external suppliers or shipping delays</li><li id="">Eliminate stencils, reducing time and costs</li><li id="">Utilize a multi-purpose feature set to help you scale through development</li><li id="">Help you take control of your development cycle</li></ul><h2 id="">V-One: A reliable solution</h2><p id="">Thousands of entrepreneurs, product developers, and educators across the globe use V-One to prototype PCBs easier and faster.&nbsp;</p><blockquote id="">“The Voltera V-One has been pushing our entrepreneurs to create new things in a faster, more economical way than almost any of our other machines.”<strong id=""><br><em id=""><code id=""><br>- Dan O’Mara, COO at Circuit Launch</code></em></strong></blockquote><p id="">With in-app support and software that’s intuitive and easy to use, you can get set up and start printing your PCBs quickly.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Additional resources&nbsp;</p><ul id=""><li id=""><a href="https://circuitlaunch.com/" id="">Circuit Launch</a>‍</li><li id="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/omaradan/" id="">Dan O’Mara</a></li></ul>

A Faster Hardware Development Cycle with V-One

Circuit Launch outfits their labs with everything hardware developers need to build products, like soldering irons, microscopes, DC power supplies, and the Voltera V-One.

Circuit Launch: A Faster Hardware Development Cycle with V-One

<figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-center" style="padding-bottom:33.723653395784545%" data-rt-type="video" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="" data-rt-max-height="33.723653395784545%" data-rt-dimensions="854:480" data-page-url="https://youtu.be/NKtw4zHcTL0?feature=shared"><div id=""><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NKtw4zHcTL0" title="Voltera at Polytechnique Montréal: Printing Stretchable Bioelectronics with V-One and NOVA"></iframe></div></figure><h2 id="">Highlights</h2><p id="">Professor Fabio Cicoira and his team at Polytechnique Montréal are experts in chemical engineering, materials science, electrochemistry, and advanced manufacturing. They purchased a <a href="https://www.voltera.io/v-one" id="">V-One PCB printer</a> for <a href="https://www.polymtl.ca/iontronics/en/people" target="_blank" id="">their lab</a> in 2020, and were one of the very first customers to purchase a <a href="https://www.voltera.io/nova" id="">NOVA material dispensing system</a> when it was released in 2022.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Their research focuses on polymer poly(3,4) ethylenedioxythiophene doped with polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS), a self-healing thin film polymer, and its applications in organic bioelectronics, flexible, and stretchable electronics, as well as organic and inorganic ion-gated transistors.</p><p id=""><em id="">“It goes without saying that it’s much easier to print our designs with NOVA, and the results are also precise. We can print everything with NOVA in one day, as opposed to making stencils one-by-one with screen printing.”</em></p><p id=""><em id="">— Fabio Cicoira, Professor of Chemical Engineering at </em>Polytechnique Montréal</p><h2 id="">Printing wearable bioelectronics with V-One&nbsp;</h2><p id="">In recent years, Professor Cicoira and his team have used V-One to study conductive polymer materials and their application in stretchable, flexible, and recyclable electronic devices, such as electrocardiogram (ECG) electrodes, pressure sensors, and organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs). Some of their latest publications include:&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><ul id=""><li id=""><a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2024/mh/d4mh00203b" target="_blank" id="">Self-Healing, Stretchable and Recyclable Polyurethane-PEDOT:PSS Conductive Blends</a> (2024, Jinsil Kim et al)</li><li id=""><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-8585/ad05d6/meta" target="_blank" id="">Printable, Adhesive, and Self-Healing Dry Epidermal Electrodes Based on PEDOT: PSS and Polyurethane Diol</a> (2023, Pierre Kateb et al)&nbsp;</li><li id=""><a href="https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2023/nr/d2nr06731e" target="_blank" id="">All-Printed and Stretchable Organic Electrochemical Transistors Using a Hydrogel&nbsp; Electrolyte</a> (2023, Chi-Hyeong Kim et al)</li><li id=""><a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-8585/ac4d0f/meta" target="_blank" id="">Flexible and Stretchable Printed Conducting Polymer Devices for Electrodermal Activity Measurements</a> (2022, Jo'Elen Hagler et al)</li><li id=""><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2021.708914/full" target="_blank" id="">Combining&nbsp; Electrospinning and Electrode Printing for the Fabrication of Stretchable Organic Electrochemical Transistors</a> (2021, Michael Lerond et al)</li><li id="">… <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=0&q=%22Voltera%22+%22Cicoira%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&as_ylo=2020" target="_blank" id="">And more</a>.</li></ul><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6334888a34bfac03b46aa715/6708115bddb76af20ddf29ee_66d9e7c3e439585219fdefe1_66d9e6dddf4849818a9ec882_Customer-stories-polytechnique-montreal-printing-wearable-bioelectronics-v-one.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Researchers gather around a computer in a lab with NOVA and V-One sitting on a table next to them." width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption>Jiaxin Fan, Xin Zhou, and Chi-hyeong Kim gather round to view NOVA's software</figcaption></figure><p id="">While the team has achieved success printing on flexible substrates such as <a href="https://store.voltera.io/products/intexar-tpu-5-sheets?_pos=1&_sid=ebec8dfa1&_ss=r" id="">thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)</a>, it became apparent that NOVA would provide more benefits in precise dispensing of materials on flexible substrates.</p><h2 id="">Leveling up with NOVA</h2><p id="">Professor Cicoira and his students are happy with the impact NOVA has had on their research. For Jiaxin Fan, a postdoctoral fellow focusing on wearable biosensors for medical and biological applications and printed electronics, two significant improvements with NOVA have been the ease of aligning patterns and traces, as well as the pressure sensor's ability to provide a steady flow and produce reliable print results.</p><p id="">“One thing that really stands out about NOVA is the multilayer printing capability and the integrated computer vision. With the camera, we can align the patterns much more easily compared to V-One. This is particularly relevant, for example, when a student prints conductive polymers on top of gold electrodes and needs to achieve accurate alignment.”&nbsp;</p><p id=""><em id="">— Jiaxin Fan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Organic Iontronics at </em>Polytechnique Montréal</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div id=""><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6334888a34bfac03b46aa715/66d9e7c2e439585219fdefcd_66d9e76bd2cb718831f23feb_Customer-stories-polytechnique-montreal-leveling-up-NOVA.webp" loading="lazy" alt="A thin-film pressure sensor printed with NOVA" width="auto" height="auto" id=""></div><figcaption id="">A thin-film pressure sensor printed with NOVA. First layer printed with NovaCentrix Silver Flake Ink on TPU, second layer printed with Clevios SV4 Conductive Polymer.</figcaption></figure><p id="">For Chi-hyeong Kim, a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, researching stretchable bioelectronics for biomedical applications, learning to use NOVA and teaching it to other students was straightforward thanks to the video tutorial embedded in NOVA’s software. NOVA also enabled him to print less viscous materials, such as gallium-based liquid metal ink with an organic suspension.</p><p id=""><em id="">“Sometimes when I train someone who wants to use NOVA, it only takes a few minutes to teach them how to use it, because the steps are easy and there are on-screen instructions.”&nbsp;</em></p><p id=""><em id="">— Chi-hyeong Kim, a PhD student in Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal</em></p><p id="">Also helpful for the team is NOVA’s large print area (220 mm × 300 mm), which saves them time by eliminating the need to change and secure the substrate, and then regenerate the height map.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Since becoming a Voltera customer, Professor Cicoira has recommended Voltera printers to several colleagues due to their precision and ease of use. As his team progresses their research using V-One and NOVA, we look forward to seeing the new and exciting ways they innovate in the fields of flexible, stretchable, and healable electronics, patterning and processing of organic electronic materials, electrochemical transistors, implantable electrodes, organic field-effect transistors, and organic thin film growth.</p><p id="">Additional resources&nbsp;</p><ul id=""><li id=""><a href="https://www.polymtl.ca/iontronics/en/people" target="_blank" id="">Laboratory of Organic Iontronics, Polytechnique Montréal</a></li><li id=""><a href="https://www.polymtl.ca/iontronics/en/" target="_blank" id="">Department of Chemical Engineering and Institute of Biomedical Engineering</a></li><li id="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabio-cicoira-94b8448/?originalSubdomain=ca" target="_blank" id="">Professor Fabio Cicoira</a></li><li id="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/fan1" target="_blank" id="">Jiaxin Fan</a></li><li id="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/xin-zhou-727005107/" target="_blank" id="">Xin Zhou</a></li><li id="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathel-dongnang/" target="_blank" id="">Kathel Dongnang</a></li></ul>

Polytechnique Montréal: Researching Printed Stretchable Bioelectronics with Voltera NOVA and V-One

Discover how Professor Fabio Cicoira and his team at Polytechnique Montréal utilize NOVA and V-One to develop flexible and stretchable organic bioelectronics.

<h2 id="">Highlights</h2><p id="">For years, Gerd Grau, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Electronics Additive Manufacturing Lab at York University used the <a href="https://www.voltera.io/v-one" id="">V-One PCB printer</a>. Then, in 2022, he was one of the first customers to upgrade to Voltera’s <a href="https://www.voltera.io/nova" id="">NOVA materials dispensing system</a>.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Regularly utilized in their lab, NOVA has enabled Professor Grau and his team of researchers to publish a number of papers, such as:</p><ul id=""><li id=""><a href="https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/items/62586142-9c84-43a3-9ce5-319d3e99be82" target="_blank" id="">Printed Tattoo Electrodes for Electrophysiological Signal Acquisition</a> (2023, Yoland El-Hajj et al.)</li><li id=""><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adem.202301711" target="_blank" id="">Low‐Roughness 3D‐Printed Surfaces by Ironing for the Integration with Printed Electronics</a> (2024, Benno Neuhaus et al.)</li><li id=""><a href="https://www.techrxiv.org/doi/full/10.36227/techrxiv.22654396.v1" target="_blank" id="">Ch Active Electrode with In-Channel Boosted CMRR for Distributed EEG Monitoring</a> (2023, Alireza Dabbaghian et al.)</li><li id="">…<a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2020&q=%22Voltera+NOVA%22+%22York%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5" target="_blank" id="">And more</a>.</li></ul><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6334888a34bfac03b46aa715/670539f072945da6cfa1cdfb_67053924c16fdc4397e475b2_York-university-additive-manufacturing-gerd-grau.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Professor Gerd Grau, Director of York University Electronics Additive Manufacturing Lab"></div><figcaption>Figure 1: Professor Gerd Grau (left) at NOVA’s launch event in 2022</figcaption></figure><blockquote id=""><em id="">“I think where this sort of technology (NOVA) will shine is in applications that were not possible before. You shouldn't fight or try to compete with silicon chips or PCBs. You should try to make something that's impossible with those technologies.”<br></em><strong id=""><em id=""><code id="">- Gerd Grau, Director of the Electronics Additive Manufacturing Lab at York University</code></em></strong></blockquote><h2 id="">Working with V-One&nbsp;</h2><p id="">Professor Grau and his team started using V-One in their research in 2019. At the time, they were researching projects that had applications in areas from stretchable electronics to printing electronics directly onto carbon fiber composites.&nbsp;</p><p id="">While V-One was getting the job done, it required a lot of workarounds for use with flexible, stretchable, and conformable applications because the machine was designed to print traditional, rigid PCBs.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Use cases like the ones being researched at York University were at the forefront of our minds when we began developing NOVA. We knew the next generation of electronics would have form factors that hadn’t yet been discovered.&nbsp;</p><h2 id="">Leveling up with NOVA</h2><p id="">In October 2022, Voltera released the NOVA materials dispensing system. Avid V-One users who were conducting groundbreaking research and developing the electronics products of tomorrow suddenly had a new and innovative tool at their disposal for rapid prototyping and low volume manufacturing in the field of flexible hybrid electronics — wearables, biomedical sensors, antenna and RFID tags, and more.&nbsp;</p><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6334888a34bfac03b46aa715/670539f072945da6cfa1cdef_6705398665836731034584db_York-university-additive-manufacturing-levelling-up-nova.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Yoland El-Hajj printing with NOVA"></div><figcaption>Figure 2: Yoland El-Hajj printing with NOVA</figcaption></figure><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6334888a34bfac03b46aa715/670539f072945da6cfa1cde5_670539bc3bc442bba837b017_York-university-additive-manufacturing-levelling-up-nova-probing.webp" loading="lazy" alt="NOVA height mapping printed silver ink hearts on tattoo paper"></div><figcaption>Figure 3: NOVA height mapping printed pattern</figcaption></figure><p id="">Research Assistant, Yoland El-Hajj (pictured above), used NOVA in her research on <a href="https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/77423903-d210-46d3-9387-bdec086bd6cb/content" target="_blank" id="">Printed Tattoo Electrodes for Electrophysiological Signal Acquisition</a>, as well as her paper comparing <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361717600_Inkjet_and_Extrusion_Printed_Silver_Biomedical_Tattoo_Electrodes" target="_blank" id="">Inkjet and Extrusion Printed Silver Biomedical Tattoo Electrodes</a>. More details on the latter project can be found on the <a href="https://www.voltera.io/blog/printed-tattoo-electrodes" id="">Voltera blog</a>.&nbsp;</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">“NOVA makes the printing process more efficient, so I am able to easily calibrate the materials I’m using and then print immediately. It also helps to specifically align the patterns I have onto a substrate. Overall, it has helped make the process more efficient and easier to change. It has significantly reduced the amount of time it takes to print the resulting pattern on the substrate compared to more traditional processes that involve the use of a mask or the use of laser cutting.”<br></em><strong id=""><em id=""><code id="">-Yoland El-Hajj, Research Assistant at York University</code></em></strong></blockquote><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6334888a34bfac03b46aa715/670539f072945da6cfa1cdf2_670539de9888b86cee016a07_York-university-additive-manufacturing-levelling-up-nova-yoland-el-hajj.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Yoland El-Hajj outside the York University Electronics Additive Manufacturing Lab"></div><figcaption>Figure 4: Yoland El-Hajj in the halls of York University</figcaption></figure><h2 id="">The NOVA difference</h2><p id="">NOVA helps enable electronics that are conformal, stretchable, wearable, disposable, and/or biocompatible, to create devices that are lightweight, unobtrusive, and integrated directly into the structure of the world around us, rather than a board in a box.&nbsp;</p><p id="">When it comes to using NOVA in the E-AM Lab, Professor Grau believes it has offered a clear step up for their research — not only in terms of print quality, but also new features such as layer-to-layer alignment.</p><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-center" style="padding-bottom:33.723653395784545%" data-rt-type="video" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="" data-rt-max-height="33.723653395784545%" data-rt-dimensions="854:480" data-page-url="https://youtu.be/MEW3q7GKYQA?si=YFAGcwEvNpVUTB2s"><div id=""><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MEW3q7GKYQA" title="NOVA at York University: Biomedical Tattoos"></iframe></div></figure><h2 id="">Additional resources&nbsp;</h2><ul id=""><li id="">Learn more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eecs.yorku.ca/~grau/" target="_blank" id="">York University Electronics Additive Manufacturing Lab</a></li><li id="">Voltera Blog:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.voltera.io/blog/printed-tattoo-electrodes" id="">Printed Tattoo Electrodes — Cutting-Edge Biomedical Monitoring</a></li><li id="">LinkedIn:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerd-grau-8557a434/" target="_blank" id="">Gerd Grau</a></li><li id="">LinkedIn:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/yoland-el-hajj-262377135/" target="_blank" id="">Yoland El-Hajj</a></li></ul>

Leveling up the Electronics Additive Manufacturing Lab with Voltera

The V-One PCB printer was a staple at York University’s Electronics Additive Manufacturing Lab. Then they leveled up their lab, adding a NOVA dispensing system.

York University: Leveling up the Electronics Additive Manufacturing Lab with Voltera

The V-One PCB printer was a staple at York University’s Electronics Additive Manufacturing Lab. Then, in 2022, they leveled up their lab by adding a NOVA materials dispensing system.

<h2 id="">Highlights</h2><p id="">The team at Living Architecture Systems Group is striving to bring the discipline of architecture to life. While challenges around the integration of electronics into structural systems are common, they find inspiration in the interconnectedness of nature, creating a novel approach that blends practical craftsmanship with technological innovation.&nbsp;</p><h2 id="">V-One: Becoming one with nature</h2><p id="">When Philip Beesley, Professor of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, and Director of Living Architecture Systems Group began conceptualizing this project, he found many parallels in nature.</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">“How on earth could we make something which is artificial into something which we could associate with the world of nature, in the world of life?”<br></em><strong id=""><em id=""><code id="">- Philip Beesley, Professor of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, and Director of Living Architecture Systems Group</code></em></strong></blockquote><p id="">He began to look at the project in the same manner that nature works in wetlands, or the way deep filaments of mycelium (mushrooms) intertwine as a root network underground. This out-of-the-box thinking resulted in requirements for integrating meticulous details into their circuit boards.&nbsp;</p><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6334888a34bfac03b46aa715/67080cdda0fda023a2072f7c_67080c7dfbd5903733241747_Living-architecture-systems-group-philip-beesley.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Philip Beesley holds an example of one of the structural elements that the circuit boards are incorporated into"></div><figcaption>Figure 1:&nbsp;Philip Beesley holds an example of one of the structural elements that the circuit boards are incorporated into</figcaption></figure><p id="">For many years, they made their own boards by designing them and sending them overseas to be printed. They have also worked with breadboards, as well as muriatic acid, garolite, and burning in traces.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Now, with V-One, they can quickly prototype, completing multiple design iterations in just one day. Gone are the days of outsourcing circuit board production, or resorting to makeshift solutions.&nbsp;</p><p id="">The team at Living Architecture Systems Group uses V-One to integrate sensors, electronics, physical architecture, artificial intelligence, chemistry, and psychological research into physical objects. The goal is a creation that is not only responsive, but also empathetic to human interaction.</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">“We are very interested in moving with increasing miniaturization into elements that can be directly integrated into mechanisms.”<br></em><strong id=""><em id=""><code id="">- Philip Beesley, Professor of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, and Director of Living Architecture Systems Group</code></em></strong></blockquote><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6334888a34bfac03b46aa715/67080cdda0fda023a2072f7f_67080cbb863e63a7fb23d2da_Living-architecture-systems-group-integrated-pcb-structural-design.webp" loading="lazy" alt="A PCB integrated into a structural design"></div><figcaption>Figure 2:&nbsp;A PCB&nbsp;board integrated into a structural design</figcaption></figure><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-center" style="padding-bottom:33.723653395784545%" data-rt-type="video" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="" data-rt-max-height="33.723653395784545%" data-rt-dimensions="854:480" data-page-url="https://youtu.be/EhB1nyh9tkE?si=SUJh6AeKpkoCA1hD"><div id=""><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EhB1nyh9tkE" title="Voltera at The Living Architecture Systems Group: Electronics Made Beautiful"></iframe></div></figure><blockquote id=""><em id="">“This ability to work with some custom making of boards, directly interwoven, this is a tremendously motivating space. It's been a dream.”<br></em><strong id=""><em id=""><code id="">- Philip Beesley, Professor of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, and Director of Living Architecture Systems Group</code></em></strong></blockquote><h2 id="">The V-One difference</h2><p id="">Using V-One means their innovative concepts around strain relief and cable mounting can be explored.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Not only does V-One break boundaries by enabling the integration of electronics into designs, but it also means the team at Living Architecture Systems Group can prototype faster, saving them time, money, and material along the way.&nbsp;</p><h2 id="">Additional resources&nbsp;</h2><ul id=""><li id="">Learn more:&nbsp;<a href="https://livingarchitecturesystems.com/" target="_blank" id="">Living Architecture Systems Group</a></li><li id="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-beesley-10a3354/" target="_blank" id="">Philip Beesley</a></li></ul>

Bringing Art to Life with Voltera’s V-One PCB Printer

Philip Beesley and the Living Architecture Systems Group team strives to bring architecture to life. When conceptualizing the project, they turned to the Voltera V-One PCB printer.

Living Architecture Systems Group: Bringing Art to Life with Voltera’s V-One PCB Printer

<h2 id="">Highlights</h2><p id="">The vastness of space provides seemingly endless opportunities for exploration and innovation. It’s what is at the forefront of the mechanical and aerospace engineer program at Princeton University. Mechanical and aerospace engineering students are using <a href="https://www.voltera.io/v-one" id="">Voltera’s V-One PCB printer</a> to build CubeSats, miniature satellites that are designed for space research.&nbsp;</p><h2 id="">V-One: Enabling innovation</h2><p id="">When Mike Galvin, Sr. Technical Support, Mechanical Engineer, at Princeton started building out a design lab, he wanted to focus on enabling students to make every piece of the spacecraft in-house, on the grounds of Princeton University. It was important to him that they see their work through from build to launch during their undergrad tenure.&nbsp;</p><p id="">For student Shannen Prindle, hands-on experience with V-One meant a deeper understanding of the project. From conceptualization to launch, she was involved in every aspect of spacecraft’s development — including the rapid prototyping and fabrication of the project’s printed circuit boards. Using V-One meant that Shannen and her peers gained insightful knowledge on the electronic circuitry involved in such a complex project.</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">“If we didn't have something like the Voltera V-One (...) I don't think I&nbsp;would fully understand what goes into a circuit. Being able to see where the electronics go helped me understand what components go where.”<br></em><strong id=""><em id=""><code id="">- Shannen Prindle, Student at Princeton University</code></em></strong></blockquote><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6334888a34bfac03b46aa715/67080f8b338e1c7943fc52cb_67080f50af92e01235ed4916_Princeton-university-vone-enabling-innovation.webp" loading="lazy" alt="A group photo at Princeton University with Mike Galvin and Shannen Prindle"></div><figcaption>Figure 1: Group at Princeton University, including Mike Galvin (second from right) and Shannen Prindle (far right)</figcaption></figure><p id="">V-One was designed to have a user-friendly interface, which means it’s easy to use — for novices and, in the case of Princeton University, students. Enhancing a student’s understanding of the process, from the design of the PCB to the placement of components, means there is also a deeper understanding of what is required to ensure a project with the size and scope of this one — launching a spacecraft into orbit — will be successful.&nbsp;</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">“Before they graduate, (students) can see a small spacecraft through from conceptual design, through preliminary design review, detail design, integration, build, fabrication all the way through spacecraft qualification tests, integration for launch, and then finally orbital launch.”<br></em><strong id=""><em id=""><code id="">- Mike Galvin, Sr. Technical Support, Mechanical Engineer, at Princeton University</code></em></strong></blockquote><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6334888a34bfac03b46aa715/67080f8a338e1c7943fc52be_67080f73a254fa847f40a310_Princeton-university-enabling-innovation-vone-printing.webp" loading="lazy" alt="V-One prints a hello world board"></div><figcaption>Figure 2: V-One at work in the Princeton lab</figcaption></figure><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-center" style="padding-bottom:33.723653395784545%" data-rt-type="video" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="" data-rt-max-height="33.723653395784545%" data-rt-dimensions="854:480" data-page-url="https://youtu.be/7TMoRObjmHI?si=2bUmu7WsmVuXlUlD"><div id=""><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7TMoRObjmHI" title="Voltera at Princeton: Customer Success Story - The future of Aerospace Innovation"></iframe></div></figure><h2 id="">Infinite possibilities</h2><p id="">Using V-One to teach electronics gives students the hands-on experience they need to learn. What starts as a simple idea evolves over time to become a well thought out project plan. With very minimal training and user-friendly software, V-One will be up and running and students will be designing and printing PCBs in a matter of hours.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Adding a V-One to their lab bench means that students at Princeton University could validate experiments and gain practical intuition that they wouldn’t get by outsourcing fabrication.</p><h2 id="">Additional resources&nbsp;</h2><ul id=""><li id="">Princeton University TigerSats: <a href="https://tigersats.princeton.edu/" target="_blank" id="">Design, build, test, and launch CubeSats and other nanosatellites</a></li><li id="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-galvin-4240652/" target="_blank" id="">Mike Galvin</a>‍</li><li id="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannenp/" target="_blank" id="">Shannen Prindle</a></li></ul>

Empowering Space Exploration with Voltera’s V-One PCB Printer

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Princeton University: Empowering Space Exploration with Voltera’s V-One PCB Printer

<h2 id="">Highlights</h2><p id="">The Bao Group is a team of chemical engineers, chemists, material scientists, physicists, and electrical engineers working towards the goal of developing flexible and stretchable materials, electronics, and energy devices.&nbsp;</p><p id="">Their groundbreaking research ranges from smart bandages and self-healing electronic skin to flameproofing lithium-ion batteries, and stretchable and implantable brain probes.&nbsp;</p><h2 id="">V-One and the invention of robot skin</h2><p id="">With a <a href="https://www.voltera.io/v-one" id="">V-One PCB printer</a> in their lab, researchers in the Bao Group are designing novel solutions to everyday problems. In particular, they are developing robotic skin (also called e-skin), which is in the category of flexible, stretchable, and <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade0086" target="_blank" id="">self-healing electronics</a>. It is capable of generating nerve-like impulses that mimic human skin and talk to the brain.</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">“Robotic skin should have a lot of sensors to mimic our skin's function, like pressure sensors, strain sensors, temperature sensors, and torsional sensors. I&nbsp;have to interconnect all of those sensors to rigid electronics.”<br></em><strong id=""><em id=""><code id="">- Dr. Jaemin Kim, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bao Research Group at Stanford University</code></em></strong></blockquote><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-center" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="center"><div><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6334888a34bfac03b46aa715/670811218c9028cf0c919855_67081109224cfc7be3422597_Stanford-university-vone-invention-robot-skin.webp" loading="lazy" alt="Hands holding a print on a flexible substrate"></div><figcaption>Figure 1:&nbsp;Flexible print</figcaption></figure><p id="">The next generation of wearable devices will be different from the rigid devices of the past. Stretchable sensors will change the way we track biological signals and provide continuous and precise healthcare monitoring, even when a doctor is not present. This kind of research requires the ability to test materials, make changes to designs, and prototype unconventional form factors quickly and easily. Using Voltera’s dispensing platforms means that researchers can prototype several designs per day.&nbsp;</p><blockquote id=""><em id="">“We have to change the design based on the experiment, so previously we have used a screen-printing mask, but the feedback is very slow. With the V-One we can print improvements very quickly.”<br></em><strong id=""><em id=""><code id="">- Dr. Naoji Matsuhisa, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bao Research Group at Stanford University</code></em></strong></blockquote><figure id="" class="w-richtext-figure-type-video w-richtext-align-center" style="padding-bottom:33.723653395784545%" data-rt-type="video" data-rt-align="center" data-rt-max-width="" data-rt-max-height="33.723653395784545%" data-rt-dimensions="854:480" data-page-url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sR_BeIyWsU"><div id=""><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_sR_BeIyWsU" title="Voltera at Stanford University's Bao Research Group: Robotic Skin and Stretchable Sensors"></iframe></div></figure><h2 id="">The next generation of electronics</h2><p id="">According to <a href="https://stanforddaily.com/2023/10/05/qa-zhenan-bao-develops-electronic-skin/" target="_blank" id="">The Stanford Daily</a>, “The Bao Group’s electronic skin has evolved over the past 19 years from sensing hand grasping, blood pressure, neurochemicals, and brain waves, and is now also self-healing and biodegradable.”</p><p id="">The Bao Group at Stanford University is revolutionizing the way the world thinks about and uses electronics, and with a V-One in their lab, they are making notable progress — one research project at a time.&nbsp;</p><h2 id="">Additional resources&nbsp;</h2><ul id=""><li id="">Stanford University: <a href="https://baogroup.stanford.edu/" target="_blank" id="">The Bao Group</a></li><li id="">Research article: <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade0086" target="_blank" id="">Neuromorphic sensorimotor loop embodied by monolithically integrated, low-voltage, soft e-skin</a></li><li id="">Google Scholar: <a href="https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=4OLlInEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate" target="_blank" id="">Zhenan Bao</a></li><li id="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhenan-bao-75a14b7/" target="_blank" id="">Zhenan Bao</a></li><li id="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/naoji-matsuhisa-4b957989/" target="_blank" id="">Naoji Matsuhisa</a>‍</li><li id="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jkim07/" target="_blank" id="">Jaemin Kim</a></li></ul>

Next generation electronics with Voltera

The Bao Group at Stanford University, led by Zhenan Bao, is a team of researchers developing flexible and stretchable materials, electronics, and energy devices. 

Stanford University: Next generation electronics with Voltera

The Bao Group at Stanford University, led by Zhenan Bao, is a team of researchers developing flexible and stretchable materials, electronics, and energy devices.

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