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3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: July 4th, 2021

Things are slowing down a little bit this week in terms of webinars and events, so you can breathe a little sigh of relief. If you’re interested in learning about…

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Dyze Design Releases Typhoon­™ Fast Print Large-Scale 3D Printer Extruder

Canadian-based OEM Dyze Design is officially releasing its new print head, Typhoon™. Designed for large-scale 3d printers, the Typhoon™ extruder can output 0.9 kg of material per hour, 10 times…

New ABS/HDPE FFF Blend Gets Stronger with Time

Plastic pellets for injection molding exist in a much wider variety than 3D printing filaments, thus offering the potential for a much greater range of applications.  At the same time…

Researchers Create Fuzzy Like PI Controller to Control FFF 3D Printer Extruder and Bed Heaters

I learn all kinds of interesting things writing about 3D printing every day. Much to my chagrin, today I learned that a fuzzy print controller is not actually fuzzy or…

Allevi and Made In Space Partner Up for New Initiative: 3D Bioprinting in Outer Space

3D bioprinting company Allevi, formerly known as BioBots, is on a mission to make it easier for scientists and researchers to design and engineer 3D tissues. The company, which was founded…

DCL Researchers’ New 3D Printing Software Used to Design Voxel Chair 3D Printed with a Continuous Line of Material

Whenever we hear about a new project from researchers and students at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, we know it’s going to be something unique and interesting, like a…

3D Printing News Briefs: March 24, 2017

For this Friday edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, we’ll take a look at copyright law, a 3D printer, new 3D printing products, a prestigious award and a group meeting, and…

Diabase Engineering and Micro Swiss LLC Introduce the Flexion HT 3D Printer Extruder, Featuring an All-Metal Hot End and Expanded Material Capabilities

A good extruder can mean the difference between an average-to-mediocre 3D printer and a printing powerhouse. By swapping out your standard extruder with a high-performance one, you have the potential to…

Introducing the New and Improved Bondtech QR Extruder

There are many factors that go into customer satisfaction with a particular company. One is, obviously, the quality of the product. The willingness of the company to listen to customer…

Jaws –- The 3D Printer Extruder Drive Bolt with Bite

No, there’s no ominous John Williams score to accompany this article, just smooth and consistent extrusion of 3D print filament. Matthew Fiedler and the Houston-based team at re:3D have developed…

RoboSavvy MM2X: A Dual Extruder for MakerBot Replicator 3D Printers

When Limor Schweitzer founded RoboSavvy in 2004, his vision was to create humanoid robots that would build a bridge between video games and reality. He’s focused on understanding humanoid locomotion…

OPAM (One-Piece All-Metal) Water-Cooled Hot End Launches on Indiegogo

Anyone who has worked with a 3D printer understands the struggle of dealing with watching a print suddenly and without warning fail right before your eyes. Be it a slightly…

An Adjustable Resolution 3D Print Head?

Peter Mann and Nick McGibbon are a design and prototyping team with extensive backgrounds in CAD, materials testing, application manufacturing, product design, 3D milling and 3D printing, and they’ve created…

Researchers Describe Method of 3D Printing Multiple Viscoelastic Inks from Single Print Head

When most of us envision a 3D printer we think of the MakerBot machines which use fused deposition modeling to fabricate objects layer-by-layer via molten thermoplastics, but in research labs as…

WASP Moves Closer to 3D Printing Low Cost Homes by Unveiling New 3D Printer Extruder

Back in July, the WASPProject unveiled to us their plans to 3D print homes in 3rd world countries using nothing but a 3D printer and clay made from native soil….

Bondtech Extruder V2 is Unveiled with a ‘Performance that Outclasses All Other Extruders’

When it comes to FFF-based 3D printers, no single mechanical piece of these machines is as important to print quality and consistency as that of the printer’s extruder. Extruders are…

E3D’s New Cyclops and Chimera Extruders Now Available For Pre-order

If any of you are into building or revamping your own 3D printers, then you have likely stumbled upon the England-based company E3D. The company has prided themselves on the…

ATOM 3D Provides Instructables Tutorial to Make Low-cost, Simple, DIY, 3D Printer Extruder

ATOM 3D, an Egypt-based enterprise, is looking to make 3D printing accessible to all via open source platforms. Particularly targeted toward “Egypt and the Arabic region,” the project is geared…

Praxis3D Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Their 2-Nozzle Dual X-truder

By far the most important component to an FFF or FDM-based 3D printer is that of the extrusion system. A faulty extruder can make a quality 3D printer, a worthless…

The C.E.M Crown Extruder – A 3D Printer Extruder Based on Concepts of a Microscope

Innovation in 3D printing is an ongoing process. There are always new ideas popping up, and new revelations taking place. However, one aspect of FDM 3D printers that hasn’t really…