Bridget O'Neal
R&D Engineer 3D Prints Car Parts for Emergency & Police Vehicles
3D printing has proven itself as a useful technology in critical applications for organizations like NASA producing rocket engines—and the military, 3D printing parts for aircraft. Now, law enforcement and…
PEAK Launches Alien Beast 3D Printed Shoes for Limited Sale
In the fashion world, we have seen everything from haute couture collections to custom jewelry lines. Shoes of all kinds have been produced too, and usually tend to offer an…
Optisys Creates One-Meter-Long 3D Printed Metal Antenna
You may wonder what the point is in 3D printing antennas; after all, how much could be improved on in terms of basic shapes made out of metal? A lot,…
GM 3D Prints Tooling for 30,000 Ventilator Parts During Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, we have seen a new side of 3D printing—and its community of users on many different levels—as designs and products were needed to…
Programmable Filament: Multicolor & Multimaterial 3D Printing with No Hardware Upgrades
Most of us still get excited about the opportunity to cast aside single-color fused filament fabrication (FFF) and explore the potential of multi-colored, multi-material printing, typically reserved for higher end…
Michigan Tech Develops Open Source Smart Vision for 3D Printing Quality Control
Monitoring and quality control systems are becoming more widespread in additive manufacturing as a means of ensuring repeatability and aiming for first-time-right parts. A greater need for quality control are…
US Military 3D Prints Buildings for Hiding Military Vehicles in 36 Hours
Numerous developers within the construction industry have begun to embrace 3D printing, extolling on the vast benefits, and showing off a range of projects from small structures to residential housing,…
Roboze Opens Munich Office for German 3D Printing Customers
After creating numerous working relationships with German companies interested in using high-performance 3D printing polymers, the Italy-headquartered Roboze has taken the leap to open up a new facility in Munich….
Automated Production Planning for 3D Printing Factories
Researchers from the University of Valladolid in Spain discuss ways to improve efficiency and organization in 3D printing, releasing the details of their study in the recently published ‘Production planning…
3D Printing in India: Slow Adoption & What the Future Holds
Researchers from India are exploring the economic potential of 3D printing technology globally, and in relation to their own country, releasing the findings of their study in ‘A Study on…
RENA Acquires HES Hirtisation Segment for Post-Processing for Metal 3D Printing
3D printing with metal gains yet another boost as RENA Technologies acquires the successful Hirtisation segment of Hirtenberger Engineered Services. With the goal of creating a new division for targeting…
3DP AIPerfecter Offers Part Analysis to 3D Printing Service Bureaus
Service bureaus offer the ability to have prototypes and parts fabricated on professional equipment (especially important as some designers may not have access to any 3D printing resources) and in…
High Speed Sintering Used to 3D Print 8,000 Parts for Spanlite
While 3D printing often tends to present itself on the large scale and in spectacular fashion, other times it functions to serve quite ordinary needs. A perfect example would be…
Researchers Explore Construction 3D Printing with Calcined Clay
While industries such as medicine, aerospace, and automotive often seem to steal the wow factor within the 3D printing spotlight, the construction zone has certainly not disappointed in terms of…
Consortium Studies Use of Automotive Electronics & 3D Printing Satellite Parts
German researchers associated with the Integrated Research Platform for Affordable Satellites project are looking for new ways to produce satellites, releasing the details of a recently published study in “Production…
QuesTek Innovations Wins US Air Force-America Makes 3D Printing Challenge
QuesTek Innovations has won the Macroscale Structure-to-Properties Predictions portion of an intensive four-part AFRL AM Modeling Challenge Series sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and America Makes. Founded in 2012,…
ExOne’s 3D Sand Printing Network Expands Accessibility in North America
ExOne is a pioneer in sand 3D printing, licensed since 1996 to continue developing industrial inkjet 3D printing originally created by engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for use…
3D Printz to Distribute Bondtech 3D Printing Extruders
UK-based 3D printing specialist 3D Printz continues to expand with partnerships and product offerings, now working with Bondtech, a Swedish company that develops and produces novel dual drive extruders for…
Headmade Materials Receives €1.9 Million in Funding for “Cold Metal Fusion” 3D Printing Process
Based in Wuerzburg, Germany, Headmade Materials not only offers patented sinter-based cold metal fusion (CMF) technology to its customers, but also encourages them to consider new ways to design and…
nScrypt 3D Printing Electronics for US Air Force in Harsh Military Environments
3D printing is going hardcore for the military, with a team of developers recently testing materials for electronics meant to withstand harsh environments. The details are revealed in “Mechanical and…
Linde & 3D Medlab Partner to Optimize Metal 3D Printed Implants
Linde and 3D Medlab have embarked on a collaboration that could prove to be quite powerful in the development of orthopedic devices. Focusing on the creation of improved, complex lattices…
IDAM’s Automotive 3D Printing Production Lines Make Progress with BMW, GKN and More
Since the inception of the Industrialization and Digitalization of Additive Manufacturing (IDAM) project in March 2019, progress has been made: partners have been creating the promised digitalized AM pilot lines,…
3D Printed Gun Propellant Created by Xi’an Modern Chemistry Research Institute
Researchers from the Xi’an Modern Chemistry Research Institute in Xi’an China recently 3D printed materials typically used to accelerate thrust of projectiles from guns or other weapons, releasing the details…
Russia Successfully Tests 3D Printed Engine
Russia continues to venture into additive manufacturing for critical applications, just releasing the successful results of a flight test for their 3D printed MGTD-20 Gas Turbine Engine. The Russian Foundation…
