Fraunhofer Researchers go XXL as FutureAM Nears Completion
Huge scale metal AM is getting a lot of coverage recently. Recently we published an article showing how NASA is using DED for... read more »
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Dyze Design Releases Pulsar Pellet Extruder with 2.5kg/h Flow Rate
Back in July, we told you about the release of Dyze Design’s Typhoon high-output 3D printer extruder that could print almost one kilogram... 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 »
Turning Ocean Trash into Filament
Plastic waste is a huge problem for the oceans of planet Earth. Humans produce over 300 million tons every year and at least... read more »
PERI 3D Prints First Apartment Building in Germany
3D printing buildings is becoming big business as PERI GmbH is printing Germany’s first apartment building in Wallenhausen, Bavaria using their BOD2 portal... read more »
Free Tool for Estimating Metal AM Costs
Metal 3D printing services are generally fairly friendly and knowledgeable and are happy to give you quotes for your printed parts all day... read more »
3D Systems Gunning for Military Applications with 9-Laser Behemoth
3D Systems have just announced some developments showing that they are on track to provide a huge metal printing machine for the US... read more »
3D Printed Drug Delivering Hearing Aids
The hearing aid industry was one of the first sectors to employ 3D printing in mass production of products. Every ear is different,... read more »
Creating Ferroelectric Metamaterials with 3D Printing
3D printing has been used for creating scaffold structures to enable the creation of ferroelectric metamaterials. Ferroelectricity relates to crystalline substances that have... read more »
iFactory3D Launches Kickstarter for High Quality Desktop Belt 3D Printer
Most of the advancements in automated 3D printing are in professional and commercial print factories, but us plebeians aren’t being left completely out... read more »
Volumetric 3D Printing gets Flexible
Traditional 3D printing involves a layerwise deposition, whereas volumetric 3D printing is not layerwise. Instead the object being printed appears almost instantaneously within... read more »
NASA Funded Project Successfully DEDs GRCop-42 Copper Alloy
Additive Manufacturing and copper have both been finding a friend in the space industry recently, particularly in the domain of rocket engines. We... 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 »
Kickstarter: Add AI to All (Most) Filament 3D Printers with AIMS
Just as failure is a part of life, so too is it a part of 3D printing. Print failures are common enough on... read more »
3D Printed Holography Device Protects Soldiers from Aerosols
Holography has been touted as being just around the corner for decades, and asides from the odd Tupac light show, hasn’t really manifested... read more »
BMW 3D Printing Superbike Components at the Track
German automaker BMW is very big on additive manufacturing, especially when it comes to their research and development, having recently opened the doors... read more »
BigBrain3D Launches Kickstarter Campaign for SimplyColor3D 2.0
The hardware side of 3D printers and the software side of slicing have improved significantly in the affordable 3D printing space, to the... read more »
NASA uses Blown Powder Method to Scale up Rockets
We have taken a look at how the private sector are using additive manufacturing to build rocket engines in this previous article. In... 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 »
LONGER Launches Kickstarter for 4K LCD 3D Printer
These days, for every expensive 3D printer that’s released only for Fortune 500 companies, there’s an affordable one just around the corner that’s... read more »
