3D Printed Ball Wheels Are On A Roll
When someone is accused of ‘reinventing the wheel,’ it’s meant to signify that they wasted time developing something that already exists. And yet Ralph Waldo Emerson famously said “Build a ...
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3D Printing News
Industry Collaboration Highlights Path to 3D Printed Lungs
Earlier this year 3D Systems announced that they would be stepping up their efforts in the realm of bioprinting, in particular they intend to collaborate further with United Therapeutics and ...
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India Unveils First AM House
It’s been a good year for 3D printed houses, at least in terms of AM construction companies getting a little airtime. And the latest company to dip their toes into the extruded concrete ...
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3D Printed Compression Masks Treating Burns in Gaza
In 2020, a gas leak at a bakery in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, caused an inferno resulting in 25 fatalities and dozens of people sustaining injuries, many being burns related injuries. To ...
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Concrete Additive Manufacturing Gets Intricate
Most of the concrete printing stories we look at on this website are focused on large scale concrete printing systems with fairly large nozzles for a large flow rate. It’s great for laying ...
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Automated Vapor Smoothing for Post-Processing MJF Parts
When it comes to chemically resistant plastics commonly used in industrial 3D printers, stronger chemicals are often required for vapor smoothing. Many of these chemicals are dangerous, ...
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Metal AM Medical Implants Taking off in China
China is embracing metal additive manufacturing for the large scale manufacture of medical implants. Beijing-based AK Medical have been in the implant game for a while now. At first they ...
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YouTuber Makes Metal Terminator Skull with Lost PLA Casting
YouTube recommendations can lead down some strange rabbit holes sometimes. My own recommendations mainly consist of videos of people eating 50-year old MRE rations and Finnish people ...
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Mosaic Launches Array, An Automated 3D Printing Platform
Mosaic has made a name for themselves in the multi-color 3D printing world with their popular Palette system, a sophisticated device that turns any FDM desktop 3D printer into a multi-color ...
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AM Prototypes and Generative Design Builds a better Bow
When we hear the term generative design, our minds often turn immediately to 3D printing. This is totally understandable, the two technologies do go together quite well. But it’s easy to ...
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Baubot Construction Robot Can 3D Print And More
At this point, construction-scale 3D printers that can print houses aren’t exactly new. Most of those house printers are essentially just very large cartesian 3D printers that extrude some ...
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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 order to be useful. This requires heaters inside the battery enclosure, ...
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20ft Rocket Stage 3D Printed and Ready for Test
California-based space company Relativity Space has shared a bunch of new pictures on their social media showing the progress of their metal AM rocket stage. We thought we would re-share ...
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Saab Tests AM for Battle Damage Repairs on Gripen Fighter
Most of our aviation-related 3D printed stories focus on internal components hidden deep inside aircraft machinery, and most of those stories focus on metal printed components. Swedish ...
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3D Printing Fixtures and Masking Just Got Easier
Approximately 10% of all plastic AM goes into the manufacture of plastic fixtures ranging from brackets to jigs. And apparently, only 1% of all plastic fixtures are 3D printed. This ...
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Polaroid’s Candy Printing Pen
Hey, remember Polaroid? Polaroid used to make cameras until Industry 4.0 came along and replaced film with memory cards. In the last decade or so, Polaroid have dipped their corporate ...
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Researchers Grow Brain in 3D Printed Microfluidic Bioreactor
Microfluidic systems may be small, but they’re likely to be among the fastest growing applications for 3D printing in the coming years due to their low cost of entry and production. ...
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3D Print Ceramic And Use Your Home Microwave As A Kiln
Chinese ceramic printer company Cerambot has just announced the release of their new ceramic printer, dubbed the Cerambot Eazao, following on the success of the first one that gained them ...
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Ford and HP Recycle 3D Printing Waste Into Molded Car Parts
End of life waste management of automotive materials is a huge task, with the auto vehicle recycling industry is the 16th largest sector in the United States, contributing $25 billion USD ...
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Metaplas Foldable Multimaterials
A team of researchers from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London (UCL) has recently shared their 3D printed multi-polymer design concept. We are curious about the ...
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