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 »
Electronics
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 »
Nanofabrica Joins Siemens-Dynamo Start-up Program
Israel-based micro-manufacturing systems developer nanofabrica has just joined the Siemens-Dynamo start-up commercialization program. As one of Europe's largest manufacturing conglomerates, Siemens' start-up program... read more »
3D Printed Programmable Liquid Chip is a Multi-Purpose Lab
DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has just developed a liquid printed chip that can reconfigure itself at the click of a button, thus serving... read more »
Flexible Transparent Circuits 3D Printed Using Nanowires
University of Hamburg and DESY have been fast at work developing a new form of electronics using flexible transparent circuits. The cooperation between... read more »
3D Printed Cellulose Sensors & Sustainable IoT Electronics
Wood-based, 3D printed cellulose technologies offer an alternative to plastics and polymeric materials currently present in electronics. Simon Fraser University and Swiss researchers... read more »
Conjugated Polymers: 3D Printing Plastics With Electrical Conductivity
UC Merced Professor Yue ‘Jessica’ Wang and her team's laboratory are spearheading an ambitious project to research conjugated polymers. Conductive plastics, and other artificial... read more »
