Siemens has announced an investment, via the venture capital unit of the company, in Materials Solutions Limited, a United Kingdom firm devoted to metal 3D printing, with a plan to incorporate its technology into the gas turbine manufacturing process. Materials Solutions is a developer of high performance materials and laser 3D-printing processes. With a suite…
3D printing and fashion continue to converge much faster than most of us had expected. What seemed like merely a pipe dream by some fashion designers just a couple years ago has quickly become a means of creating all sorts of unique clothing, accessories, and footwear. Currently an India-based company called Fracktal Works offers…
The United Launch Alliance, a 50-50 joint venture between Lockheed Martin and The Boeing Company formed to provide reliable, cost-efficient access to space for U.S. government missions, announced a shift earlier this year from traditional metallic applications to additive manufacturing using Stratasys Fused Deposition Modeling 3D-printing technology. As a result, ULA will save more than…
MIT’s Mediated Matter Group has demonstrated an optically-transparent glass 3D printing process. The process, dubbed G3DP, or Glass 3D Printing, was developed with the help of MIT’s Medical Engineering Department, the Wyss Institute and MIT’s Glass Lab. It is based on a dual-heated chamber concept. The upper chamber acts as a “Kiln Cartridge,” which works…
Recently a 3D-printed drone was launched from a British military warship and successfully flew to shore, which was a demonstration that could pave the way for futuristic spy drones that can be printed at sea. Engineers at the University of Southampton, in the United Kingdom, built the unmanned aircraft by using 3D printing, which has…
Product information: One of the recurring issues in 3D printing is how to colorize the objects produced to the best. Prior to the introduction of colored filaments, a monochromatic creation could have color applied only after completion. Since then a variety of color printing processes have been developed. The process of gradient color printing has…
A pair of students has invented a conceptual prototype for a countertop 3D printer which people could use to make meat at home. Cultivator, which was designed by Sarah Mautsch and Aaron Abentheuer, is an open-source prototype machine intended to fuel the discussion about the future of bio-printing – a kind of new technology already being developed for recreating human organs in experimental medicine. The project…
E-NABLE is a growing group of over 3600 members who have come together from all over the World to help create and design 3D Printed assistive hand devices for those in need. people in E-NABLE are engineers, artists, makers, students, parents, occupational therapists, prosthetists, garage tinkerers, designers, teachers, creatives, philanthropists, writers and many others…
