Robots Can Now 3D-Print Steel Bridges
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A new bridge is being planned in Amsterdam, which will be constructed by robots that will utilize a 3D printing technology. The project will be completed by Heijmans, the Dutch company responsible for building the solar roadway and other revolutionar
When it comes to creating surfaces, it's a simple task to either make ones that are smooth or ones that are bumpy. But now researchers at MIT have created one that can be both.
3D printing is time-consuming. Complex solid parts can be drawn out of the resin at rates of hundreds of millimeters per hour with under 100 microns resolution. These print speeds allow parts to be produced in minutes instead of hours.
Considering that fundamental parts such as the frame and wheel bearings are entirely printed in plastic, one would agree that TE's goal to portray a technology that manufactures load-bearing production parts has been achieved.
If you've ever wondered how 3D printers are made, the answer is surprisingly meta.
3D printing allows for creating unique and complex objects, but detailed, mechanical painting of such a diverse range of shapes has proven difficult. Water-transfer printing has been used for everything from car dashboards to press-on nails, but the
Powerful & Functional 3D Printed AR-10 Lower Receiver, Fires 7.62-Millimeter Bullets 'Without Issue'
Beauty, a marvellous bald eagle, is the recipient of the world's first prosthetic beak.
Speaking at the 2015 TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, MIT professor Neri Oxman has displayed what is claimed to be the world's first 3D-printed photosynthetic wearable prototype embedded with living matter.
While China's stock market continues levitating at an ever more amusing pace, this is happening at the expense of China's far more important housing market, which sadly for three-quarters of China's population.....
Famously, spider silk is tougher than both steel and kevlar. That is, out of the three materials, it can absorb the most energy before breaking--a strand of silk may be able to stretch to up to five times the length of its relaxed state before givin
This update for the popular app that creates 3D models from photographs has been rebuilt from the ground up. Here are a few of the new features you will find in this update to 123D Catch.
You wont believe these 3D printing gadgets......
Go from concept to creation in minutes.
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Ben responds to viewer's questions about 3-D printing by delivering a full tutorial!
An invasion of 3-D printed robots may be coming, capable of popping one of the world's most ubiquitous brands of combination locks in as little as half a minute.
Turn ordinary photos into extraordinary 3D models.
It's one thing to 3D-print something as advanced as a jet engine, but it's another to fuel it up and push the start button.
The shakeup continues at MakerBot. After acquiring a new CEO, laying off 20 percent of its core staffoff 20 percent of its core staff, and reorienting its business to focus on professional and educational markets in the US, it appears that MakerBot E
Local Motors - 1576B S Nelson Dr , Chandler, AZ - This group is for anyone interested in 3D printing. Both novices and experienced printers are welcome. Novices can see a 3D printer in action and learn how it works. Experienced printers can get help
When is a gun not just a gun? When it's also constitutionally protected free speech.
This week marks the two-year anniversary since Cody Wilson, the inventor of the world's first 3-D printable gun, received a letter from the State Department demanding that he remove the blueprints for his plastic-printed firearm from the internet.
WONDER IF A STATEMENT IS BEING MADE HERE
Edward Snowden has become like the mythical hydra: Cut off one of his heads and a hundred will be 3-D printed in its place.
Had bioprinting been around in Vincent van Gogh's day, he would have had to do something more dramatic to express his inner torment than cutting off his ear – American startup BioBots has been demonstrating that he could have easily just 3D-printed
Three baby boys with life-threatening breathing problems are alive today thanks to a 4D biomaterial, a medical implant designed to change shape over time, that helped them keep breathing, researchers say.
Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory have used data from the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument to compile the first 3D image of the Pillars of Creation