In May, we covered the story of Afate Gnikou who had taken to resolve the problem of e-waste, created by first world countries and deposited in third world countries, by transforming leftover computer…
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3D Printing Contributes to Development of New JWST Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided mankind with some of its most inspiring images. Be it the birth of stars, the beauty of supernovae or the fascinating sites of the large impacts of the Shoemake…
Tethers' 3D Printed Radiation Shields for Orbital Satellites
Even though the network of self-replicating 3D printer communities consist of highly intelligent individual units, the replicating machines themselves are not yet self-sustainable and functional with…
Drilling into Additive Manufacturing
BlueFire Equipment Corporation (OTCQB: BLFR) announced recently that it is exploring additive manufacturing techniques for the production of its proprietary polycrystalline diamond cutter (PDC) drill …
Additive/Aerospace Summit Preview
Everyone’s calling it “The Must-Attend Business Event for Additive Fabrication Servicing the Aero-Defense Value Chain!” Ok, so that’s what the promotional materials are calling it, but the Additive/Ae…
New, Stronger Metals from Missouri University of Science and Technology
Researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology have been using a $660,000 grant from NASA to simulate stronger materials for 3D printing. Led by Dr. Frank Liou, of the school’s Lase…
3D Printing & Space (Part 2): Made In Space
The reader may well, most understandably, find that upon the realisation mankind is on brink of genuinely considering terminology such as ‘home-world’ as a pragmatic, technological, and in…
3D Printing & Space (Part 1): An Interstellar Voyager
Voyager 1 has left the solar system. An amazing feat considering it set off from Earth shortly after Elvis left the building for the final time. The technology of species Homo Sapien can now be consid…
Reut Institute's XNL Contest – Designing Special Products for Special People
Even though 3D printing is entering the space age as 3D printers head out of this world with NASA, the tech is also capable of meeting more mundane — but highly inspirational — challenges right here o…
3D Printing in Zero Gravity
NASA is looking forward to having 3D Printing available in its space stations. Watch this video to hear why NASA and Made in Space think 3d printing can be highly useful on space stations.…