DoD Contracts ExOne to Develop 3D Printing “Factory in a Shipping Container”
The US military is no stranger to 3D printing, what with their commissioning the largest metal printer and testing conductive plastic 3D printed... read more »
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US Navy Tests Conductive Plastic AM Radar Components
Antennas need to be electrically conductive, so they either need to be manufactured from a conductive material (metal, typically) or else be made... read more »
Skull Surgery a Success with 3D Printing
An infant in Dehli, India, has had a medical condition called Trigonocephaly treated with the aid of additive manufacturing. Patients with Trigonocephaly are... read more »
LASIMM – A Hybrid Manufacturing and Metrology Solution
Metal AM is great, but it’s still a long way off from producing true net-shape parts. To achieve the usable component, smoothed, squared... read more »
World’s First 3D Printed School in Madagascar
It’s great to see the promises of AM construction finally being deployed in a useful humanitarian role, rather than simply as the latest... read more »
Military Eyes Topology Optimized Heat Exchangers
The Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory (CCDC ARL) sure loves additive manufacturing, as we have shown in the past. Their latest... read more »
3D Printing Brings Water from Air
We live on a water planet where most of the water is undrinkable. The irony! If only there was some method of extracting... read more »
First 3D Printed Home up for Sale
We see a lot of 3D printed homes on this website, but we don’t hear much about people actually buying them on property... read more »
AM Wind Turbine Blade Mold Research Gets Funding Boost
If there ever was a poster child for Industry 4.0, then it should definitely be the wind turbine. Squeezing everything they can from... 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 »
Prototyping a Modular Mass Ventilator System – MassVentil Project
A recently developed ventilator has been unveiled by a team of researchers from Hungary, and they hope that the modular system, which has... read more »
1,825 Horsepower Bugatti Bolide is Packed with 3D Printed Parts
While our loyal readers are fully aware of the near ubiquitous adoption of AM throughout the automotive manufacturing industry, the shift has gone... read more »
3D Printed Bearings and Tribo-filaments
When we hear the phrase “3D printed bearing” the first thing that may come to mind are the many videos of YouTubers testing... read more »
Porsche Demos 3D Printing for Electric Vehicles
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Porsche are new to the electric vehicle game. In fact, the first cars designed by Ferdinand Porsche... read more »
Treating Scoliosis with Exos Armor, a 3D Printed Back Brace
Scoliosis is a sideways curvature of the spine that can be caused by a number of muscular and neuromuscular conditions. It affects 2-3%... read more »
CERN using 3D Printing to Improve Particle Detection
The European particle smashing agency, CERN has turned to 3D printing to manufacture components for a cooling system in the Large Hadron Collider.... read more »
Using AI to Design AM Missile Parts
Ignoring all warnings from Hollywood from the last 4 decades, US Army engineers and scientists have turned to AI to assist with the... read more »
Sugar Lab Launches Holiday Collection of 3D Printed Confections
There have been headlines about 3D printed food for a decade at least, but that many years later and there are very few... read more »
Bridgestone 3D Prints Tire Molds to Improve Traction
McLaren is 3D printing Titanium wheels and Carbon Performance is printing Aluminum brake calipers, so what about tires? It turns out that they’re... 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 »
