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jayyhu ◴[] No.41900019[source]
Reading the article, it looks like so far they only have a working resettable fuse (a passive device), and only hypothesize that a transistor was possible with the copper-infused PLA filament. So no actual working active electronics.

And from the paper linked in the article[1], it seems the actual breakthrough is the discovery that copper-infused PLA filament exhibits a PTC-effect, which is noteworthy, but definitely not "3D-Printed Active Electronics" newsworthy.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17452759.2024.2...

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1. hatsunearu ◴[] No.41901082[source]
usually even these academia hype pieces have some grain of utility but this one was so incomprehensibly bad that i was genuinely confused if i'm reading it incorrectly. what the hell?