The unique problem that NASA and other organizations or companies are facing with their high-value additively manufactured parts is that the technology isn’t just redefining the way objects are …
3D Printing Titanium Takes Off in Israeli Aerospace
Titanium has been the hottest material in metal 3D printing for aerospace and not without reason. It has a high strength to weight ratio, great durability, and its powder form is ideally suited for 3D…
Disney's Fabric 3D Printing – It's Not Just Soft, It's Smart
Over the last few years, we have seen a wide range of materials that can be used in 3D printing, from food to metals, ceramics, and living tissue. Curiously enough, in that time, 3D printing hasn̵…
3D Printing a Baby-Proof Home
While 3D printing has already become the prototyping and product development tool of choice in a variety of industries, it hasn’t had quite the same effect when it comes to making ready-to-use p…
World's 1st 3D Printed & Battery Powered Rocket Engine
With the introduction last week of the ‘Electron’ rocket and its ‘Rutherford’ electric engine, Space is a little bit closer than it’s ever been before. New Zealand-based …
Touch the Sound, Hold the Song with Reify's 3D Printed Sculptures
Throughout history, humans have taken inanimate objects and used them to create sound. In our journey in search of the next aural experience, we have taken materials such as wood, animal bones, hair a…
3D Printing Inside/Outside/Around the Box for hackster's Hardware Housing Challenge
hackster.io brings you their latest 3D design challenge “Give your Hardware a Home” in sponsorship with Autodesk Fusion 360. The challenge is about giving one of three hardware hacks a uni…
3D Printing More Than a Helping Hand for a Wounded War Veteran
While serving in the military in Afghanistan, Taylor was an unfortunate victim of an IED blast that led to the loss of all four of his limbs. From then on, the quadruple amputee had to make do with th…
Just Draw, Click & 3D Print with MakerBot's New Shape Maker
When introducing the MakerBot’s PrintShop app for the iPad in early summer last year, Bre Pettis, then CEO of MakerBot, believed that they had “finally provided a piece of software that he…
PowerPoint + Projectors = Cheap & Easy Micro-SLA 3D Printing
Based on research being done in nano-scale optical imaging at the Nano – CEMMS Center at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, a low-cost DLP-SLA process has been demonstrated by stude…