Decathlon Embraces 3D Printing for R&D
It’s no surprise that French sporting goods manufacturer Decathlon has been utilizing 3D printing for their R&D
Phillip Keane
Phillip is an aerospace engineer from UK. He is a graduate of Coventry University (UK), International Space University (France) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), where he studied Advanced Manufacturing at the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing. Research Brings Varying Gloss 3D Prints
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An Overview of 3D Systems’ DMP Metal Printers
In this article we'll look at the line of DMP printers and their printable alloys. From stand alone 3D printers to modular production... read more »
Lost Wax Casting with Additive Manufacturing
In using 3D printing, multiple steps of the investment casting process can be skipped. This can potentially save a lot of time and... read more »
New DED Machine Gets Computer Vision for Additive Repair
Directed Energy Deposition (also known as Blown Powder Directed Energy Deposition) is not only good for manufacturing new parts from scratch, but it... read more »
3D Print Your Own Car Parts
Before the advent of large scale 3D printers, if you wanted to mod your car with bodykits, you would have to shell out... read more »
Fraunhofer Researchers go XXL as FutureAM Nears Completion
Huge scale metal AM is getting a lot of coverage recently. Recently we published an article showing how NASA is using DED for... read more »
Inkjet Technology Guides Electrons in Graphene Prints
Graphene is a carbon allotrope which is touted as the wonder material with applications ranging from high capacity batteries to transparent electronics to... read more »
Turning Ocean Trash into Filament
Plastic waste is a huge problem for the oceans of planet Earth. Humans produce over 300 million tons every year and at least... read more »
Options for Dental Printing
Many dental appliances require a high level of customization to ensure conform and compatibility with the patient. In comes dental printing
Free Tool for Estimating Metal AM Costs
Metal 3D printing services are generally fairly friendly and knowledgeable and are happy to give you quotes for your printed parts all day... read more »
Reusing Metal Powders
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3D Systems Gunning for Military Applications with 9-Laser Behemoth
3D Systems have just announced some developments showing that they are on track to provide a huge metal printing machine for the US... read more »
3D Printed Drug Delivering Hearing Aids
The hearing aid industry was one of the first sectors to employ 3D printing in mass production of products. Every ear is different,... read more »
Creating Ferroelectric Metamaterials with 3D Printing
3D printing has been used for creating scaffold structures to enable the creation of ferroelectric metamaterials. Ferroelectricity relates to crystalline substances that have... read more »
Volumetric 3D Printing gets Flexible
Traditional 3D printing involves a layerwise deposition, whereas volumetric 3D printing is not layerwise. Instead the object being printed appears almost instantaneously within... read more »
NASA Funded Project Successfully DEDs GRCop-42 Copper Alloy
Additive Manufacturing and copper have both been finding a friend in the space industry recently, particularly in the domain of rocket engines. We... read more »
3D Printed Lenses for Smart Glasses
Remember Google Glass? It was a nose-mounted smart product that offered the moon and delivered ridicule and paranoia. And do you remember the... read more »
3D Printed Holography Device Protects Soldiers from Aerosols
Holography has been touted as being just around the corner for decades, and asides from the odd Tupac light show, hasn’t really manifested... read more »
BMW 3D Printing Superbike Components at the Track
German automaker BMW is very big on additive manufacturing, especially when it comes to their research and development, having recently opened the doors... read more »