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Malaysian Woman Freed From Headaches By 3D Printed Facial Implant
Medical applications are one of the most active arenas for innovation in 3D printing advancement, and doctors and technical specialists have now corrected the damage caused by serious facial injuries with 3D…
RangeVision Smart 3D Scanners Take on Industrial Markets
The ever-expanding range of 3D scanners are a fast becoming a lynch pin of modern 3D technologies as they demonstrate the replication of any object and the efficiency of reverse-engineering…
Simulation App Lets Designers Test Shaped Metal Deposition Processes
In Ansty Park, Coventry, UK the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) was established in 2010 to bridge the gap between academia and industry when it comes to manufacturing system solutions. The MTC represents…
Rebuilding the Rare Extinct Quagga with 3D Printing & Scanning
A quagga looked like a cross between a zebra and a horse, and though there’s debate over whether a quagga was related to the plains zebra, some authorities have described…
Kickstarter: WillowFlex Filament Project Promises a Compostable 3D Printing Future
Out in the hinterlands between Brandenburg and metropolitan Berlin, Brian Crotty and Thorsten Perl say their company, BioInspiration, is the first step into what the pair call “Organic Material Evolution,”…
ELB-Schliff’s New millGrind Device Melds 3D Printing & Grinding
A new generation of hybrid machine tools are combining additive manufacturing capabilities with milling and CNC turning functionality. Now German machine tool maker ELB-Schliff has introduced a grinding machine they…
Young Maker Advances from a Garage-Built Fusion Reactor to a 3D Printed Multispectral Imager
Conrad Farnsworth grew up in small town in Wyoming, and a loss at science fair spurred his desire to take on a whole range of science-oriented projects. He calls himself…
The Venerable Bristlebot Gets a 3D Printed Update – Droobot
If you’re not familiar with them, bristlebots or brushbots are extremely simple versions of walking robots, and they’ve become increasingly popular projects at school science fairs. These rigid-bodied robots feature…
Using 3D Printing to Understand How Soil Functions
The Port and Airport Research Institute (PARI) was established in Japan in 1946 to conduct comprehensive research related to ports, airports and facilities, particularly as that research relates to coastal…
Jun Huang’s 3D Printed Big Cat Anatomy Models a Smashing Kickstarter Success
Jun Huang is a fine-arts painter, sculptor, model maker and 3D modeler who works in the fields of games, movies and television. His past projects have included permanent displays for the…
Automatic Support Generation by netfabb Improves Industrial AM Metal Parts
German 3D printing software supplier netfabb has just announced the release of a new add-on for the netfabb Professional 6 suite they say will simplify and improve 3D printing processes on an…
NecroVirus: A 3D Printable Board Game on Kickstarter
A team of developers from BoardCraft, led by Todd Porter and Jim Galis, have worked with game industry notables such as EA, Atari, Sega, Microsoft, Epic and Ion Storm, and…
Royal Navy Launching 3D Printed SULSA Drones Off of Naval Ship
The HMS Mersey is a River-class, patrol vessel in the British Royal Navy, and she was one of three vessels commissioned to replace five Island-class patrol vessels. Named for the…
GKN Aerospace & University of Sheffield Establish Research Chair to Spur AM Research
GKN Aerospace and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) have established the GKN Aerospace RAEng Chair in Additive Manufacture and Advanced Structural Metallics, a five-year-long research chair which will be based at…
Italian Firm ZARE Cuts Manufacturing Costs 50 Percent with Stratasys 3D Printing Technology
Following 50 years in the field of precision mechanics, Italian firm ZARE Prototyping became an independent rapid prototyping service provider back in 2009. Now with an array of machines for metal…
Marine Biosystems’ F5 Biopellet Reactors Are 3D Printed for Efficiency in Aquariums
Aquariums are exceptionally delicate biospheres which require a number of fine-tuned systems to function properly. One of those systems, the biopellet reactor, is meant to provide a reaction chamber where…
Prodways Extending 3D Printer Market Coverage to Turkey and Israel
Prodways, a subsidiary of Groupe Gorgé, has signed distribution agreements with Hortal 3D and BTech Innovation, expanding their reach. “We are very pleased with this collaboration between Hortal 3D and Prodways in…
Texas A&M Students 3D Print A Unique Robotic DJ
Rico Balakit is a computer engineering student at Texas A&M University with access to the 3D printing studio at the Mechanical Engineering Department, and he quite literally likes building things from…
Terrain2STL Lets Users 3D Print Topographic Maps from Google Maps Data
With their blend of art, science and implied adventure, maps have a way of pulling us in to their depiction of the details which make up our world. And perhaps…
3D Printed Heart Models Help Doctors Size Cardiac Watchman Device
In yet another application of 3D printing to medical planning, Australian physicians are now using the technology to build exact replicas of a patient’s cardiac anatomy when planning for what…
Sintercore Creates 3D Printed Magazine Extension for Glock Handgun
Earlier this year, Michigan-based Sintercore released what they called the first commercially-available 3D printed muzzle brake for the AR-15, and now the company has announced the availability of a 3D…
Designer Creates a 3D Printed/CNC Milled Portable Nintendo 64
Chris Downing is an enthusiast of electronics and music. He’s also a salesmen and husband and acts as a moderator for the Modded by Bacteria website. Downing says that between 1998…
Fisher/Unitech Adds MakerBot 3D Printers to Portfolio Offering
Fisher/Unitech is a provider of IT solutions to the manufacturing sector, and they specialize in software and hardware solutions aimed at realizing productivity gains in industrial design, computer-aided design, and physical prototyping…
3D Printed Gyroman Resurrects Unique Toy Design From the Early 80’s — New Details
In 1981, Dr. John Jameson created a unique walking toy which made use of a metal flywheel and pivoting legs. That combination created forward motion, and the design won him…
