Design and manufacture an elevator for a tissue printer

This report shows and explains the development and production of an elevator for a living tissue printer. The customers, Dr. Thomas Boland and his team of the Bioengineering Department at Clemson University, currently use a modified HP jet-based printer to produce living 2D tissue such as skin. There is a need, however, for an additional dimension in order to print an entire organ. The prototype developed in this project as a proof of concept can be used to print tissue up to 20 millimeters in height, 20 millimeters in length and 10 millimeters in width, e.g. a blood vessel section. In the future, this concept can be scaled up to print more complex organs such as a heart.