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
New Balance Testing Custom 3D Printed Shoes for Athletes
The costs is still out of reach for real use, but New Balance is also getting into the act of custom fitting 3D shoes. 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. From there [...]
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.
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 [...]
Need Help Finding an Available 3D Printer? MakeXYZ
The internet is sometimes a solution looking for a problem. In this case however, finding a 3D printer that’s available in these early days can take some doing. MakeXYZ is charged with fixing that problem. From MakeXYZ: We help people make stuff by connecting people who need something 3D printed with makers and print shops [...]
Nike Uses 3D Printer to Create Football Cleat
Using a far different type of 3D printing technology than your at-home printers would, Nike fashions a 3D printed football cleat. Using a technique called Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Nike manages to get a high-powered laser to fuse different pieces of plastic together. With this technique, Nike was then able to achieve something impossible [...]
