Joris Peels
Steadfast XO: Will USVs and UUVs Disrupt Existing Naval Power?
A quiet revolution is underway in Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) & Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV). Ukraine didn’t have much of a Navy when Russia invaded, but has been able to…
3D Printed Food for Those with Chewing Difficulties Now Available for Home Delivery
One interesting but overlooked use of 3D printing is in special food for hospitals and care facilities. This is a big potential market, as through additive, foods can be enriched…
3DPOD 254: Jay Dinsmore, ADDMAN Group
Jay Dinsmore founded the eponymous company Dinsmore years ago. Since then, he’s had many an adventure in hiring people, managing them, training them, keeping them, and getting the best out…
Nikon SLM Solutions Partners with ATI and Bechtel Plant Machinery on 3D Printed Hypersonics
One of the world’s most demanding technical challenges is the creation of maneuverable hypersonic vehicles. The country that does so well will command the ultimate high ground. They will essentially…
HAMR Industries Gets a FormAlloy X5R at Neighborhood 91
The Neighborhood 91 (N91) cluster of additive manufacturing firms in Pennsylvania has acquired a FormAlloy robot arm X5R Directed Energy Deposition (DED) system; specifically HAMR Industries. The X5R can work…
Reusch & Carbon Partner to Make 3D Printed Goalkeeper Glove Optimized for Punching
Glove and sports gear company Reusch has partnered with Carbon to make the Attrakt Fusion Carbon 3D. This 3D printed goalkeeper glove has a lattice area on it that’s optimized…
Conflux and Donkervoort Bring 3D Printing to Water Charge Air Coolers
Dutch car manufacturer Donkervoort is perhaps best known for its classically styled minimalist roadsters. A few years ago, the firm moved to carbon fiber, kitted-out much more aggressively, styled higher…
MX3D Receives €7 Million in Series A Funding for WAAM Services
Dutch large-format wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) firm MX3D has gotten a €7 million ($7.8M) investment in its Series A round. The round is led by EDF Pulse Ventures, with…
Metalpine & Renishaw Partner to Develop CuNi Powders for Naval Use
UK-based LPBF OEM Renishaw has worked with Austrian powder firm Metalpine to make a copper-nickel alloy (CuNi) powder that will enable marine parts. The powders have been developed for the…
3DPOD 253: Jacob Nuechterlein, Part 2: Fortius Metals, and a Metal AM Materials Masterclass
Jacob Nuechterlein is back with us. Initially we go into Fortius Metals discussing the special materials that firm has for DED. But, the meat and bones of this episode is…
RIC Robotics Teases Zyrex Giantroid Robot For Dreambuilding
RIC Robotics is teasing the Zyrex, what it calls a Giantroid. 6 meters in height with a 7 meter span, the autonomous (but human-monitored) construction robot is slated for release…
Ohio Ordnance Works Partners With Velo3D on Metal 3D Printing for Defense Initiative
Metal 3D printing firm Velo3D announced that it has partnered with Ohio Ordnance Works (OOW), a Class III arms manufacturer. The company makes the REAPR machine gun and SAW, BAR,…
Chaos & Opportunity
Great fortunes are lost and won amidst quicksand. When well-trodden paths turn to labyrinths, the concrete is sublimated into morass, sunshine turns to hail, and 20/20 vision becomes blindness; new…
3D Spark Secures $2.2M to Tackle Manufacturing Bottlenecks
German startup 3D Spark has raised two million euros in a seed round. Swedish software investor Triplefair Partners led the round, with Fraunhofer Technologie-Transfer Fonds (FTTF) and Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg…
Polish Maker Flies His 3D Printed Airbike—A Real-Life Speeder
Polish inventor Tomasz Patan has created an Airbike. Reminiscent of the Star Wars Speeder bikes, the vehicle uses 3D printing to fly one person around. It looks rather terrifying, frankly,…
OPEN MIND Technologies Moves Further Into Additive with hyperMILL CAD CAM
OPEN MIND Technologies makes CAD CAM software, usually for 5-axis milling, turning machines, and similar. Its hyperMILL CAM tool delivers a lot of G-code for a lot of machines worldwide….
Broad Spectrum Additive at the US Air Force
If we look at how Air Forces around the world use additive manufacturing, a lot of the attention is focused on future possibilities in hypersonics and next-generation aircraft. Beyond the…
Johns Hopkins University Researchers Develop HyFAM Technology
Two scientists from Johns Hopkins University, Nathan C. Brown and Jochen Mueller, have developed a hybrid manufacturing technology they call HyFam, or Hybrid Formative Additive Manufacturing. Their work on this technology…
3DPOD 252: What’s Really Happening in Bioprinting, with Mark Skylar-Scott, Stanford University
Mark Skylar-Scott is an experienced bioprinting researcher now working at one of the foremost bioprinting labs in the world at Stanford University. We talk about inexpensive desktop bioprinters and their…
OVERLEAF 3D Prints Cryogenic Tank For Aviation Liquid Hydrogen
Spanish technology center Aimen has 3D printed a cryogenic tank meant to store liquid hydrogen for use as aviation fuel. This test tank was made as a part of OVERLEAF,…
Why is No One Taking Action on Tariffs?
Over the past weeks, most of my interactions with other people, be they friends, family, taxi drivers, friendly chefs, or people at my local market, have involved at least an…
EOS Releases Medical Device Master File for M290 3D Printer
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) firm EOS has released a Medical Device Master File that will make it easier for customers to achieve regulatory success. The file will essentially be…
Intelligently Arming the EU, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and More With Additive Manufacturing
Democracy is under threat like it never has been before. With the falling away of the United States as the global guarantor of order, liberal democratic states, such as those…
Push Button Metal 3D Printing for $50,000?
In 2021 we wrote an article about “Push Button Metal, the low cost metal 3D printing evolution we are not talking about.” In it, we talked about One Click Metal,…
