Scientist 3D Printers
for academics & professionals
NOVEL MATERIALS
ORGAN PRINTING &
3D TISSUE CULTURE
MULTIMATERIAL PROTOTYPING
Materials Science, Food Printing, and unique industrial processes using novel materials
Join academics and profesionals at the cutting edge of organ printing and 3d cell culture.
Leverage our high motion resolution and software to print parts with plastics, silicones, etc.
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Our Latest Fab@Home™ 3D Printer
Introducing the Scientist 3D Printer
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Since our founding in 2011, Seraph Robotics has been producing 3D printing equipment for leading academic laboratories and professional users world wide. Our latest Scientist™ 3D Printer expands the capabilities of our Fab@Home Model 3 Research Platform, and the Fab@Home academic project (est. 2005) from which we spun out.
The Scientist™ improves the state of the art with an assembled machine. With an expanding array of tools and accessories, every user can make the Scientist™ their own by accessorizing it to be their own custom 3d printer for their process or materials. Whether you’d like to do 3d cell culture, print living organs, experiment
in material science, or just print plastics, ceramics,
or foods, the Scientist™ will allow professional
research users the ability to easily push the
limits of additive manufacturing technology.
TOOLS & ACCESSORIES
Combine new or existing materials, or manufacture specialty, custom products. The Scientist™ Research Platform will give you the tools to develop your product or run your experiments.
Our research platform will allow you to precisely control every aspect of your digital fabrication research – from materials, to depositions patterns and geometries. You can use our simple point and click software to process CAD files and straight forward new 3d printer material calibration tools to print in novel materials. While advanced users can even write their own software to work with the printer, most will simply choose to leverage our powerful point-and-click software tools to print in multiple materials.
With the Scientist™, we introduce a new set of accessories which make printing in novel materials even easier, whether they require syringe or filament deposition tools, high or low temperature, or exposure to UV light. Watch the videos and see how others have benefited from this powerful tool for research, professional, and industrial uses.
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NEW & IMPROVED SOFTWARE SUITE
Introducing LabManager - our most advanced software yet
The Scientist™ comes with LabManager™ our latest software suite, which features more advanced tools for more easily creating print jobs. The Calibrator™ tool takes the programming out of 3D printer material Calibration and our Manipulator™ tool makes complex multi-material prints easier than ever before. Customize the hardware and then use our powerful software suite to easily control as much or as little about the print process as you wish.
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FAQ
To order your Seraph Printer, please email our a Sales Rep or fill out the Customer Order Info form to kick off the process of selecting the printer that's right for you. Email is the easiest way to reach us, but if you prefer to chat via phone, book a sales appointment.
Common Questions
Frequently asked questions are listed questions and answers.
Hardware
What Materials Can I Print?
With the Scientist 3-D Printer you can print a wide variety of materials using either our syringe deposition or filament extrusion tools. Common printed materials include hydrogels, agarose, silicones, ABS/PLA plastic filaments. Each novel material must be calibrated using our simple software. The general rule is that if a material can be extruded manually through a syringe with a tapered tip, hold its shape, and allow itself to be stacked, it will probably work well in the printing process. That said, with the use of our temperature controls, UV light, etc., it may be possible to make materials which do not satisfy this test printable. Printing with filaments can be done using a wide variety of standard materials available from third parties, or you can make your own filament and try novel material. The ultimate answer regarding print ability is to try your material on the Scientist, possibly tweak the material composition or accessory configuration, and leverage our simple software to start printing your new material quickly!
Who should buy a Scientist?
The Scientist is suited for a wide variety of users, especially academics and professionals. Our primary users include: biology labs looking to do 3-D cell culture or tissue engineering, chemistry/material science laboratories looking to experiment with novel materials, and engineering and professional users looking to produce multi-material 3-D printer parts and single material parts. We also have had professional users incorporate our printers as part of their industrial processes.
What’s different about Scientist and Fab@Home hardware?
While both the Scientist and Fab@Home are great machines, the Scientist is a step forward in the technology. The Scientist is a fully assembled machine with upgraded materials used in its construction, including an aluminum outter case and a more resillient gantry construction. Further, the Scientist has the very latest in new tools and accessories, including some tools which were not previously available.
Software
What can I do with the included software?
The Scientist includes our very latest 3-D printing software suite, Lab Manager™. The Lab Manager suite includes a variety of software programs. Using Lab Manager, you can launch the updated Seraph Studio to arrange 3-D (CAD) models made from any number of different materials on the virtual build surface to produce single or multi material 3d prints.
What’s different about Scientist and Fab@Home software?
The Scientist software suite is more advanced than the previous Fab@Home software package. Among other improvements, it’s includes additional tools for multimaterial 3d printing, and simplifies the new 3d material calibration process to be point-and-click.
Do I need CAD – which program?
For all but our specialized 3D Cell culture tool (coming soon – click here to pre-order), you will need an STL file to input into Seraph Studio to generate a print job. (Expert users can generate print jobs from custom code and bypass the STL files.) You can download STL files from various websites on the Internet and also generate them through any number of commercially available CAD software packages. As long as the STL file is a structure that can the 3-D printed and the file is watertight, it should work on the system.
I’m a 3D printing novice, is this the right system for me?
Yes! The Scientist 3-D printer is built on the Fab@Home platform, which we improved and updated over the years. This is a platform that has been used by children as young as kindergarten, but is also the software suite of choice for the world’s leading 3-D printing research labs.
Moreover, new users can sign up for Seraph University, our training program which will take any novice user, new employee or undergraduate student, and turn them into a 3-D printing whiz.
Can I use custom code (experts)?
Yes! You don’t even need G-Code! Our printers use the XDFL language, which is a straightforward way to control the printer that can be easily read by human beings. For the programmer who wants to directly control the printer from some custom piece of software, the Scientist is configured to allow XDFL to be read by Seraph Print (our printer control tool) from any source. The Scientist truly combines all the benefits of having designed and built your own printer with those of one produced by an industry leader. The limits truly are imagination! That said, most users find that our standard point-and-click software is so comprehensive that even advanced researchers don’t need much else to do their work.
Company
Who is Seraph Robotics and what’s the Fab@Home Project?
The Fab@Home Project began in 2005 as an academic research project at Cornell University. At that time, 3-D printers had not been widely incorporated into either consumer or research use. The project set out to create a printing platform that can be used by academic researchers to expand the state-of-the-art.
In 2011, Seraph Robotics was spun out of the labs at Cornell to commercialize the Fab@Home project. Over the past several years, Seraph Robotics has improved the Fab@Home platform, culminating in the release of the Scientist 3-D printer, an order of magnitude leap forward in the technology. Seraph has been actively engaged in researching 3-D printers since its founding, and has supported the work of scores of researchers and professionals around the globe for years with our Fab@Home printers, both the M3 and Scientist.
Why choose Seraph?
Seraph Robotics is a seasoned player in the academic and professional 3-D printing market. Our employees, products, and company have earned the right to claim deep experience in the additive manufacturing field. Seraph isn’t a new kid on the block, or some untested startup. When you purchase a Seraph 3-D printer – the Scientist, in particular – you are joining the ranks of our elite academic and professional customers, many of whom have purchased equipment from Seraph for years.
Seraph’s Fab@Home™ printers have been the subject of the world’s leading research in 3-D printing, particularly bio printing, where scores of top-tiered publications have been produced using our equipment. Many of today’s “common” materials were first printed on our units and our Fab@Home printers essentially created the syringe-based novel materials additive manufacturing revolution. Spun out of the leading academic 3-D printing research lab, pioneering the field of novel material 3-D printing, and trusted by leading academics and professionals everywhere, there could be no better choice than Seraph for your 3-D printing needs.
*Specifications subject to change and modification based on selected accessories.
*Please note some picture on website may be from older versions of the printers which have been since updated.
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