SWISSto12 Passes Design Review for 5G Satellite Antennas With 3D-Printed Front Ends
SWISSto12 has cleared the critical design review for the S- and Ka-band phased array antennas on UNIVITY's 5G demonstration satellites.
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Bambu Lab H3C Mixes Layer Heights on the Same Surface
Bambu Lab's H3C slicer lets a fine nozzle print thin layers and a larger nozzle print thick ones, side by side on the... read more »
UT San Antonio Turns Sargassum Seaweed Into 3D-Printed Runoff Filters
UT San Antonio engineers are making reusable runoff filters with 3D-printed backbones from Sargassum seaweed collected on the Texas coast.
Creality K3 Goes on Sale at $849: Four Nozzles, Swapped Instead of Filament
Creality's K3 is now shipping in the United States at $849. It keeps four filaments loaded on four separate nozzles and swaps the... read more »
Robo Nine Starts Printing First Fifty Robot Leader Arms
Robo Nine is 3D printing its first batch of 50 SO-ARM102 leader arms in China for the open-source education kit.
Callaway Plans $15M Titanium 3D Printing Facility in Fort Worth
Callaway Golf will invest $15 million in a Fort Worth titanium 3D printing facility, expected to open mid-2027 and support custom titanium products... read more »
Blue Origin Northstar Booster Engine Is Over 65 Percent Printed
Blue Origin's new Northstar liquid oxygen and LNG booster engine is more than 65 percent additively manufactured, with 30 percent less mass than... read more »
Printed Tungsten Tiles Survive Plasma Tests at DIII-D
NC State, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and JEOL put full-size electron-beam printed tungsten divertor tiles through 74 plasma shots at DIII-D.
LLNL Prints Tiny NIF Target Cone Ten Times Faster
Lawrence Livermore used two-photon polymerization to print a sub-millimeter National Ignition Facility diagnostic cone in one day instead of ten.
Tripo AI Launches Agentic Canvas, a Node-Based Workflow Builder for AI 3D
Tripo AI has launched Agentic Canvas, a node-based workspace inside Tripo Studio where an AI agent assembles multi-step 3D workflows that users can... read more »
Northwestern Engineers Print Paste Inks Into Freestanding Lattices Four Times Faster
Northwestern's slot-die and light process builds freestanding lattices from paste inks over four times faster than extrusion, without co-printed supports.
University of Tokyo Team 3D Prints Robot Legs With TPU Muscles and Ligaments
A University of Tokyo team tunes printed lattices in one TPU to give a life-sized robot soft muscles, stiff tendons and bearing-free joints.
Maurice Ribble’s EEW Maker Kit Turns 3D Printed Parts Into an Electric Spinning Wheel
A $99 Kickstarter hardware kit pairs a motor, spindle and circuit board with open-source printed parts to build an electric spinning wheel for... read more »
Student Designs Backpack-Sized Folding 3D Printer With the Filament Spool Inside
Ethan Gao’s P2 design folds to 300 by 300 by 80 mm, hides a whole filament spool and has to be built by... read more »
Tripo H3.1 Review: From Image to 3D Print
Tripo is an AI 3D modeling platform that turns a picture or a text prompt into a 3D model. By its own count,... read more »
University of South Florida Students Test 3D Printed Oyster Bricks on Tampa Bay Seawalls
Honors College students in Florida print clay hexa-logs that help native oysters settle on Tampa Bay seawalls, and they plan to open-source the... read more »
Bambu Lab Launches the H3C, a Nine-Tool Changer Priced From $2,499
Bambu Lab has launched the H3C, the first printer in its third generation and a nine-tool tool changer. Nine print tools dock in... read more »
PathOn Robotics Releases Files for Its Three-Finger 3D Printed Robot Hand
Robot maker PathOn Robotics has released print files for the three-finger, four-motor 3D printed hand its own robot uses.
Army Research Lab Flies Drone Powered by 3D Printed Heavy-Fuel Engine
The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has flown a midsized drone on what it says is the first 3D printed heavy-fuel engine, an... read more »
UNIST Uses Ultrasound to Tell When 3D Printed Concrete Can Take the Next Layer
A sensor plate on one side of the print lets UNIST engineers track when fresh 3D printed concrete is strong enough to carry... read more »
