How 3D Printing Changed My Life: The spirit of hacker cool is alive and well at SXSW: Just follow the trail of MakerBots BY ANDREW LEONARD 3D Printing Rocket Engines That’s the hope of DIYRockets, a company which advocates the open-source development of space. 3D Printing Vending Machine By Tyler Falk [...]
What is 3D Printing?
Wikipedia defines 3D Printing as the following: Additive manufacturing or 3D printing is a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model. 3D printing is achieved using an additive process, where successive layers of material are laid down in different shapes.[2] 3D printing is considered distinct from traditional machining techniques, which mostly rely on the removal of material by [...]
New Balance Testing Custom 3D Printed Shoes for Athletes
The cost is still out of reach for real use, but New Balance is also getting into the act of custom fitting 3D shoes (see Nike). You can imagine this is how all footwear may go one day. Walk into a shoe store, have your foot scanned and save the scan to your cell phone. [...]
Patient Gets 75% of His Skull Replaced With 3D Printed Implant
The skull implant was just approved by the FDA last month, using a new PEKK polymer that is biomechanically similar to bone. You can find more info on the approval here. by
BMW 3D Printing Case Study
Real Challenge Rapid prototyping has become a standard practice in product development. At the BMW AG plant in Regensburg, Germany, FDM (fused deposition modeling) continues to be an important component in vehicle design prototyping. But moving beyond prototyping, BMW is extending the application of FDM to other areas and functions, including direct digital manufacturing. [...]
The Future of Automobile Parts
How about a 3D printed automobile? Could it possibly be safe? The answer is actually affirmative. Wired has a cool article about a 3D printed car. Weighing in at sub 1,200 lbs, the Urbee2 is a three-wheeling lightweight that is nearly as strong as steel. Oh…and it’s getting ready for production. To read the full [...]
Richard III Brought Back to Life Using 3D Printing Technology
Loughborough University, with the assistance of Materialise’s Mimics Innovation Suite, brought Richard III back to, well, almost life. From Materialise’s site: Scans of the actual remains taken by the Leicester Royal Infirmary were sent to Loughborough, where they were transformed into a 3D computer model using Materialise’s Mimics Innovation Suite. Laser sintering was then used to create [...]
Nanoscribe Printing
The ability to print objects smaller than a grain of sand. Imagine the possibilities in medical and defense! From Nanoscribe’s Site: Applications for their printer: 3D Photonics: Photonic crystals, metamaterials, light directors, circular polarizers, photonic band gap structures, photonic quasicrystals, photonic wire bonds, photonic color 3D Scaffolds and Biomimetics: Cell migration and stem cell differentiation [...]
3D Printer Creates Hand for 5 Year Old Boy
Robohand as it’s called, was produced by a few hobbyists with the assistance of a 3D printer. Outfitting a young South African boy who was born without fingers, utilizes a simple design without electronics to open and close the hand. By using strings attached to the arm, when the wrist bends, the strings tension and [...]
Nokia Leading in Community 3D Printing
Nokia developed a great marketing plan for our market. By offering their files to create a basis for a 3D Print-yourself case for their phone, you can customize at will. It’s really taking off. From the Nokia site in an internview with John Kneeland, Community and Developer Marketing Manager: John, what exactly is the Lumia [...]
Stratsys
- BMW 3D Printing Case Study February 28, 2013
- You Can Mass Finish FDM Parts February 19, 2013
