US Navy Installs First Metal Printer Onboard Ship
The US Navy has installed a new metal printer onboard the USS Essex, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship ported in Pearl Harbor, US.... read more »
Plant-based AM Molded Shoes Get Funding Boost
New York-based fashion design company Simplifyber has just received 3.5 million USD in seed funding to continue development of their range of footwear... read more »
Creality Ender-3 S1 Plus – Bigger and Better
[disclosure] If you're a fan of the original Ender-3 series of desktop 3D printers from Creality (like me) or the flagship Ender-3 S1,... read more »
World’s First Printed Haute Couture Vegan Dress Debuts
Magnum (the ice cream people) have commissioned Dutch designer Iris van Herpen to design and craft a dress inspired by their own vegan... read more »
Hempcrete Printed Homes Coming Soon
Hemp has historically been used for a wide range of applications spanning from rope production and textile manufacture, through to more modern day... read more »
USAF to Test Rocket-Factory-in-a-Box
An American company is 3D printing solid-fuelled rockets from a portable factory concept, and the USAF is going to be testing it. What... read more »
New Regolith Composite Lunar Base Concept Unveiled
Space architecture firm AI SpaceFactory has unveiled their plan for a lunar habitat, which has been designed for additive manufacturing on the Moon's... read more »
AM Prototyping used to Develop Shoe for Diabetics
Diabetes can cause nerve damage and poor circulation in the feet, which can lead to foot ulcers, blisters, pain, and foot infections. In... read more »
AM Smart Spinal Implants for Monitoring Patient Healing
The spinal implant industry is a huge adopter of additive manufacturing due to the highly bespoke requirements for spinal implants. And it is... read more »
Safer Lithium Battery to be 3D Printed
California and Arizona based battery company Ampcera Inc. has been awarded funds to develop 3D printed lithium-ion batteries. Ampcera, along with partners at... read more »
Researchers Print Organic Electronics with Multiphoton Printer
Researchers at the University of Houston have released a paper highlighting research into micro-scale printing of organic electronics, which has applications in flexible... read more »
Igus Announces World’s First Tribo-Photopolymer Resin
We have taken a look at Igus’ 3D printed triboplastic filaments before. Now it’s time to take a look at a new product... read more »
PET-like Plastic Made from Lignocellulosic Biomass
We have all read about so-called bioplastics. They are made from biological materials such as corn. Many bioplastics do not meet the requirements... read more »
Qatar to 3D Print Desert Hospital
Plans have been unveiled for a new hospital complex in the gulf state of Qatar. The proposed Al Daayan Health District in Qatar... read more »
Elvis’ BMW Restored with AM
Elvis has a new biopic movie by Bas Luhrmann out this week. So that’s an excuse to talk about the story about how... read more »
SMILES – World’s Brightest Materials Can be 3D Printed
Researchers at Indiana University Bloomington have received funding to continue research into SMILES (small-molecule, ionic isolation lattices), which are a new type of... read more »
Welsh AM Bike Firm Nabs Two More Victories
Welsh mountain bike manufacturer Atherton Bikes has teamed up with AM-specialist Renishaw to produce bike components in order to keep them at a... read more »
The Controller Project Printing Controller Mods for Gamers with Disabilities
Videogames are as legitimate a form of entertainment/art as any other form of medium that has ever come before. Fight me. So now... read more »
UCLA Reveals Printed Piezoelectric Meta-bots
Engineers at UCLA have unveiled a new method of printing functional miniature robots that can be manufactured with a single printing process. The... read more »
Printed Swiss Robot Aiming for Space
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. 3D printed space stuff is cool. It’s just as well because this year is... read more »
