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ExOne's New Material & Binders
The ExOne Company, a global provider of 3DP/AM to industry, has announced that it has added iron infiltrated with bronze as a new 3D printing material. ExOne has also increased its suite of binder sol…
The Science Behind 3D Printed Teddy Bear
MIT researchers have created a new programming language to increase the aptitude of industrial 3D printers to output multiple materials, and multiple properties, within a single print. To demonstrate,…
Internal ID Tagging For 3D Productables
Karl Willis, a recent Ph.D. graduate in computational design at Carnegie Mellon, and Andy Wilson, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, have demonstrated an ingenious tagging technique for 3D …
3D Printing Micro-Satellites
Last year, the whole Twittersphere lit up with excitement over the announcement that a team at the University of Washington lead by Amit Bandyopadhyay had created a 3D printer that could use lunar reg…
New 3D Manufacturing Process — Materialising Micro Lattice Structures
After the International Conference on AM & 3DP in Nottingham last week, I wrote up my review of the event and the story that has generated the most interest and the most questions — by far — is th…
NASA's 3D-Printed Rocket Part Beats Test Firing
NASA has successfully tested its first rocket engine component made using 3D printing. A series of firings of a liquid oxygen and gaseous hydrogen rocket injector assembly demonstrated the ability to …
3D Printing with Liquid Metal Heralds a New Era of Electronics, Metals and Robot Apocalypse
3D printing with metal had been conceived of since the early 1970s and, in practice, has mostly been achieved using laser sintering (LS) although these days most people seem to be calling it laser mel…
Review: Nottingham International Conference on Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing
Heading down to Nottingham for the conference on additive manufacturing and 3D printing is always a pleasure — knowing what to expect to a certain degree having attended for a fair few years now, alwa…
3D Printing's Potential in Smart Packaging
When you think about ‘smart’ devices – phones and maybe TV’s come to mind, but now the ‘smart’ prefix is being applied in the area of packaging – where it actually predates the first two c…