Organovo has already made breakthroughs in 3D bioprinting, releasing the first commercial array of liver cells for pharmaceutical testing just last month. With each advancement, we write something like “a small step towards 3D printed organs”, as a sort of…
The 3D Printed Hand-Cranked Vinyl Record Player Is Kind of Awesome
3D designer Oana Croitoru created an amazing hand cranked 3D printable vinyl record player for MakerBots recent Ghostly Vinyl Design Challenge. Thingiverse designers were asked to design novel, personalized objects for music lovers using turntables and records as inspiration. Croitoru…
Ilios3D Breaks The Mould For Stereolithography
“The entire 3D printing experience has been rethought and redesigned from the ground up. Providing the tools and capabilities any engineer, artist, architect or general DIY’er would ever want or need. The complete 3D printing experience is done within a…
Screwing Around with Formlabs
3D printer manufacturer Formlabs posted a guide for using their stereolithography 3D printer to create parts with screw threads. Obviously plastics and resins are not an optimal material to create threaded screws with, however they have found a few ways…
3D Prototyped Underwater Robot To Solve Pipe Problem
Last December the European Union launched a project called TRACT. The project, which now encompasses a number of companies and research centres, has been initiated to develop the robotic inspection of various different types of pipes, which is to include…
DWS Adds NAUTA+ Parametric Editor to Its Manufacturing Solutions
When working with extremely high resolution SLA technologies such as the ones that Digital Wax Systems develops primarily for the dental and jewelry industries, precise and minimal supports become an even more crucial issue. To address this, the company has…
UConn Researchers Use 3D Printing to Bring Out the Song in Antique Instruments
Playing for the first time in hundreds of years, antique musical instruments sing with the aid of 3D printing. We have written about the development before during its gestation period. Now, researchers at the University of Connecticut (UConn) have successfully…
Autodesk Opens Ember™ Explorer Program, Teams with 3D Industries for 3D Printing Search
Since the unveiling of the Ember 3D printer and Spark 3D printing platform at Inside 3D Printing in Santa Clara this year, we’ve been waiting for the time when Autodesk’s 3D printing technology will make it to the public. It…
i.Materialise Inks Deal to Expand its 3D Printing Platform into Asia
3D printing company Materialise has entered into a franchise agreement with a South East Asian integrated manufacturing services provider to provide localised 3D printing services to the Asian market. UCT will operate the franchise of the i.materialise 3D Printing platform…
3D Printing Is Personalizing Tennis But Don’t Lose Your HEAD Just Yet
Ralf Schwinger, R&D Director at HEAD Sports, one of the world’s largest producers of tennis racquets and tennis related apparel, spoke at London’s 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Industrial Applications Summit about his company’s view of 3D printing. He did…
