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Conductor 3 is a new ink offered by Voltera that replaces Conductor 2. There are changes to curing, burnishing, and more that might impact your printing processes.

We're back in the OPE journal! Our co-founder and Product Director, James Pickard discusses our new platform, NOVA, and highlights some its applications for additive electronics.

Silver/silver chloride is a conductive ink typically used to print electrodes for biomedical applications. It’s a non-toxic, environmentally friendly ink with stable electrochemical potential used to create disposable on-skin medical electrodes for biosensors, like EKG, EEG, and ECG sensors.

In-mold electronics (IME) processes involve printing conductive inks on moldable plastic films, which are then formed into a desired 3D shape. A Voltera test engineering intern used NOVA and IME manufacturing processes to create an induction mug heater.

Voltera’s NOVA Smart Probe made the cover of OPE Journal! We were featured in the magazine following an interview by OPE Journal editor, Martin Hirschmann, at TechBlick this year.

We say NOVA can print anything on everything, and we stand by that slogan! To get into the holiday spirit, we put NOVA to the test by using this high-tech additive electronics printer to deposit frosting onto a gingerbread cookie.

There are many variables that determine materials compatibility, especially if you’re printing onto soft, stretchable, or flexible substrates. To make informed decisions, you need to understand the factors that influence materials compatibility.

Jesus Zozaya, former CTO, steps in as CEO as Voltera continues to grow.

In additive electronics, surface energy can make or break your results. Here’s a breakdown of what surface energy is, and why it should matter to you.

Stretchable conductive ink gives you the ability to create a strain gauge on almost any stretchable material. With advancements in Flexible Hybrid Electronics and wearable tech, industries across the board are on the threshold of major change.

The definition of viscosity, as well as a breakdown of how it applies in the world of printed electronics and additive manufacturing.

If you are familiar with solder paste, you know how it can make for messy work — applying it to a stencil, solder paste getting all mixed up with your circuits

In the first volume of our “What is Printed Electronics?” series, we introduced you to Inkjet technology and promised that we would go into deeper detail on some of the others like, screen printing, gravure...

As you probably already know, here at Voltera we’re really big fans of making the field of printed electronics more accessible

We’re here with our latest installment in the “What is Printed Electronics?” series

We get it. You have this amazing idea and you think you know how to go about bringing it into reality

Here at Voltera, we know that the majority of people that know that they need a PCB printer...

Failure. It’s a word that doesn’t give many of us the warm and fuzzy feelings, but here at Voltera, we tend to see it a little differently.

Well, folks — we’ve done it again.

Additive electronics offer whole new dimensions of possibility in electronics and hardware design. Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) represent a...

Today we’re going to dive into how Mohamad K. Idris and his colleagues at York University developed self-heating carbon fiber composites to be...

Additive electronics offer whole new dimensions of possibility in electronics and hardware design. Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE) represent a...

When the COVID-19 lockdowns began, Matt & Rana were in the midst of a hardware development project: creating a cartridge filler for tubes of...

Over the last 7 years, we’ve been fortunate to build strong friendships with many of the leaders in the Additive Electronics space. With 20 years...

You’ve probably read a lot of posts this year that start with some variation of “in these uncertain times…” So as a kind of public service, Voltera...

In our last post we broke every electronic device into the modules it is made up of. Those 8 building blocks are sensing, signal processing, storage...

The V-One was designed to print double-sided PCBs but we know many of our users are hacking it to do more. In fact, we often help them do this.

What series of steps would you take to design a car? Don't worry, this isn't one of those interview questions that gauge your analytic thinking...

Researchers around the world are constantly pushing the boundaries of science and the V-One is frequently becoming an invaluable tool in these...

Rudy Ghosh, Technical Program Lead at NovaCentrix, works with external partners to find printed electronics solutions to their problems.

As the world grapples with the ongoing medical crisis, the global supply chain is being forced into a major restructuring — and has never appeared...

First and most importantly, as of this writing everyone at Voltera is safe and symptom-free. We took action on this crisis early and set almost...

I know what you must be thinking — “Hey Alroy, I know plenty of electronics engineers, and PCB stands for printed circuit board. Is printed...

That’s it folks. 2018 is a wrap! We usually do a really bad job of celebrating our accomplishments. Who has time when you need to be heads down...

Seeing is believing, especially for an engineer. At Voltera’s IDTechEx booth this year, Geoff Boyd of Coleridge Design Associates became a believer...

You’ll often hear the terms resistance, resistivity, conductivity, sheet resistance, etc. thrown about. These are all related, and are different ways...

Please keep your hands and arms inside the vehicle and remain seated at all times because Canadian Business and Macleans Magazine say this rocket...

Did you know we have an in-house mad scientist here at Voltera? Sherman Qiu (University of Waterloo, Mechatronics Engineering), has spent the summer...

In the few months since we released the Voltera V-One Drill we’ve had many users tell us that it has greatly improved the double-sided circuit...

We’re so incredibly, ridiculously, insanely, tremendously excited to announce the biggest update to the V-One platform to date. Let me introduce you...

The IDTechEx Show we were at last week is a pretty big deal. It brings together the leading companies in Printed Electronics (PE), Additive...

EAGLE now has Voltera design blocks for even faster prototyping! They’ll be live in Version 8.3.4 but you can get them right now from their site...

We were caught off guard late last year with the rate V-Ones were flying off the shelves and ultimately ran out of inventory back in January — a good...

We’ve been so busy over the last few months that we haven’t had a chance to share all the excitement with you. Before that, we think it is time to...

Field emission has a long history; it has been studied by researchers since the 1880’s. Propelling many breakthroughs in our fundamental understanding...

So you’ve got your PCB design done and ready to go, but you need to start testing it.

Anyone born post 1969 can appreciate that we just won’t know what it feels like to witness something like the moon-landing event...

In the past, we’ve given you all of the information you need to learn more about conductive ink...