New tech boosts 3D printing of metal objects
• gizmag.comThe prospects for 3D printing may have just become a little bit stronger, literally, thanks to a new way of using metallic powders to create structures.
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The prospects for 3D printing may have just become a little bit stronger, literally, thanks to a new way of using metallic powders to create structures.
Engineers have always liked ceramic parts - they are strong, lightweight and handle heat better than many metals, ideal for crafting parts for airplanes or rockets.
If one is going to get into the asteroid mining business, one needs to prove that you can do something with what's brought back.
You could certainly be forgiven for thinking that the term "digital sundial" is simply an example of an oxymoron, not unlike "jumbo shrimp" or "deafening silence."
An injured sea turtle has become the unlikely beneficiary of 3D printing technology, with a Turkish company managing to provide the animal with a much-needed jaw implant.
Our cyberpunk western future
After a record shattering Kickstarter campaign that netted the company more than $27,900,000 in purchases in less than thirty days - the already well-funded startup has plenty of visibility.
What can you print with Glowforge?
While you might have been spending your free time watching TV and puttering around, this guy was busy creating a railgun.
Custom-made sports footwear is typically the preserve of professional athletes, but perhaps not for much longer.
3D printers might be the future of Nike running shoes.
Foster + Partners has designed some of the most famous buildings in the world and, if one of its recent designs is anything to go by, it may soon have buildings on other planets, too.
Slow-printed adobe, without the flash
0-60mph in just two seconds, and weighs 90% less that traditional cars. According to San Francisco firm Divergent Microfactories, the Blade is the first 3D printed supercar, and is created using a series of chassis parts held together by carbon rods
Because nerves can't do it alone
WASP (World's Advanced Saving Project) is set to unveil Big Delta, reportedly the world's largest delta 3D printer, later this week.
A Chinese company used giant 3D printers to make 10 full-sized, detached single-story houses in one day!
Over the next three decades, these machines will become more powerful. They will get cheaper. Tens of millions of products will be produced in millions of basement 3-D machines, or else in small local businesses that will rent them.
Russia and US Homeland Security Agree on Something for Once
Following a 3D-printed heel bone, a 3D-printed mouth guard for sleep apnea sufferers and the world's first 3D-printed jet engine, Lab 22 at Australia's CSIRO has added to the growing list of 3D-printed medical implants by designing and ....
XYZ Printing's Handheld 3D Scanner is low-cost and convenient, providing users with a compact tool for producing full-color 3D models. Gizmag saw the device – which makes use of Intel RealSense tech – in action at IFA 2015.
When personal 3D printers hit the market a few years ago, it seemed like it wouldn't be long before every household had its own, sitting right next to the laptop.
The list of materials capable of being extruded through a 3D printer seems to grow by the week, moving well beyond plastics, food and metals to now include another unlikely substance: glass
Fab news, everyone!
That glass is so hot right now
"Print, because it's green."
Second Amendment Foundation eager to proceed with case
Second Amendment Foundation eager to proceed with case
IN AN ERA when digital tools allow anyone to make practically anything, inscribing the words "do not duplicate" on a key only invites ambitious lock pickers to do exactly that.
Surgeons at Boston Children's Hospital started using 3D-printed copies of patients' affected body parts to prepare for procedures last year.