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 »
Electronics
Can interactive devices be 3D printed rather than assembled? We believe so. Read everything about it on 3DPrinting.com
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 »
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 »
Sennheiser Releases Space-grade AM Headphones
3D printed products that you can put inside your ear are not a new thing. The majority of hearing aid devices have been... read more »
CNT-infused Polymeric Inks Yield Promising Results
A team of researchers from Michigan Technological University have demonstrated printing of carbon nanotube (CNT) infused epoxy inks, and have published a paper... read more »
3D Printed Supercapacitor for Space Exploration
Storing energy on space missions can be tricky. Batteries do not like the cold of space and so have to be heated in... read more »
ASUS Releases AM Files for ROG Motherboards
We like it when companies publish 3D printable mods for their products. We like it even more when they are well designed and... read more »
3D Printing Finds a Home with Audiophiles
With the aid of a 3D Systems SLS printer and some simulation software, UK-based industrial designer company Node has created their HYLIXA speaker... read more »
Researchers 3D Print Liquid-Filled Defect-Detecting Objects
The market for microfluidic chambers is still small, mostly because the technology to create them effectively hasn’t been around that long. 3D printing... 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 »
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 Aerogels for Miniature Thermal Insulation
Heat transfer occurs via three mechanisms, being conduction (via a solid), convection (via fluids) and radiation (via space). Electronic components are generally in... read more »
Additive Drives Gets 1.5 Million Dollars Seed Funding for AM Motor Components
Manufacturing coil windings for motors (and other components) is fantastically labour intensive, requiring many steps for converting the raw material into the end-use... read more »
3D Printing Metal and Plastic in One Go
Metal and plastic hybrid 3D printing has long been the aim of those wishing to print PCBs and rudimentary electronic components, such as... read more »
3D Printed Tensegrity Soft Robots
Additive manufacturing and tensegrity and robots? Soft ones? These are three of our favorite things. A South Korean research team from Ulsan National... read more »
3D Printing a Mold to Repair a Seal with Epoxy Resin
While production 3D printing has certainly stepped into the limelight, the DIY and household 3D printing community is still active and growing. Some... read more »
Jingle Bells With 3D Printed Soft Robotics
In our article on silicone 3D printing, we mentioned that soft robotics is benefiting from the technology. Soft robotics are actuated motion systems... read more »
3D Printing & Embedded Electronics – How AM Enables Smarter Objects
All throughout the world of modern manufacturing, 3D printing is adding unique functionalities to various products in ways traditional manufacturing cannot manage. The... read more »
3D Printed Heat Sinks Display Higher Efficiency
Heat sinks are a crucial part of many electronic devices, dispersing the temperatures they produce during operation. Electronics, especially computers, would succumb to... read more »
3D Printed Magnetic Liquid Could Form Micro-Robots
Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have managed to 3D print magnetic liquids that could lead to a whole range of new devices,... read more »
