Two Teams Win NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge Using 3D Printing
NASA started a competition in 2016 challenging entrants to “create thick, vascularized human organ tissue in an in-vitro environment to advance research and... read more »
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Next Gen Flying Suit Coming Soon thanks to AM
UK-based jetsuit company Gravity Industries has announced their plans to develop a new flying suit, this time with an electrical propulsion system rather... read more »
Benchtop Bioprinters: More Materials in Smaller Package
Last month, 3D Systems announced the acquisition of bioprinter manufacturer Allevi. It is the latest in a series of moves by the company... read more »
The New Massivit 5000 Is… Massive
The Israeli 3D printer manufacturer Massivit 3D certainly lives up to its namesake with the recent release of the Massivit 5000, capable of... read more »
GE gets USAF Airworthiness Cert for Metal AM Critical Part
GE has announced that their printed metal jet engine sump cover has received USAF airworthiness certification, adding another example to the very small... read more »
Researchers Produce 3D Printed Ivory
Ivory has been historically valued due to its white finish, its relative hardness, as well as of its ease of carving. Chemically speaking,... read more »
Impeller Gets Laser-clad Facelift
Laser metal deposition (LMD) is proving more and more useful to industry, as this recent impeller repair has shown. LMD, also known as... read more »
New 3D Printed Wood is ALL Wood
Wood! It’s nature’s composite material! Carbon fiber composites consist of long carbon fibers aligned along the direction of stress, bound up in a... read more »
A Closer Look at Construction Printing in Dubai
Dubai is embracing 3D printing from a whole bunch of different angles as you may have seen recently. In 2019 they received a... read more »
Compact SLS Printer Aims to Disrupt Supply Chains
If you’ve been considering investing in a polymer SLS printer, but were concerned about things like financial cost, physical space, and ventilation requirements,... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
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... read more »
