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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…
FDM 3D Printing & PLA: Fabrication of a Splint for Mallet Finger
Researchers from Australia and the UK are finding ways to improve treatments for injuries to the hand, detailing their results in the recently published ‘Patient-specific 3D-printed Splint for Mallet Finger…
Short Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Polyamide Using FDM 3D Printing vs. Polymer Injection Molding
Researchers from Spain are investigating more effective 3D printing materials with different techniques in the recently released ‘Investigation of a Short Carbon Fibre-Reinforced Polyamide and Comparison of Two Manufacturing Processes:…
Case Study: A 3D Printed Patient Specific Partial Finger Prosthesis
From the University of Nebraska at Omaha, researchers Keaton Young, James E. Pierce, and James M. Zuniga explore prosthetics made via 3D printing in ‘Assessment of body-powered 3D printed partial…
Near East University 3D Prints Prosthetic Hand, Collaborates with Hospital for Implementation
NEU Robotics Lab and the 3D Laboratories of Near East University, an international higher education institution based in Turkey, led a collaborative project to create 3D printed prosthetic hands that…
Kick Off the Holiday Season With MatterHackers’ Third Annual Blue Friday Sale!
Black Friday is coming…and if you’re one of those people brave enough to go out there and battle the mobs of maddened shoppers, all I can do is wish you…
3D Printing: The Stories We Missed This Week — July 30, 2016
This week included a lot of 3D printing news from all around the world, and as per usual, it was nearly impossible to keep up with all of the latest…
Photographer Henry Reichhold Uses 3D Photogrammetry and 3D Printing to Capture London in Bronze
As with most advanced technology, photography used to be something that only the wealthy could afford; however the 20th century is when that would change. Eventually the prices of cameras…
Instructables & 3D Hubs Launch Their 3D Printing Contest 2016 with 15 3D Printers Up for Grabs
Do-it-yourself maker community Instructables is teaming up with global 3D printing network 3D Hubs for a new contest that will see 15 lucky winners walking away with a top of the…
Good News for Ultimaker 2 Owners: New Extrusion Upgrade Kit Lets You Turn Your Older Printer Into an Ultimaker 2+
Everyone’s been there. You save up for a fancy new piece of technology – a phone, a computer, a 3D printer – and finally have enough to buy it. You…
Ultimaker Announces the Release of the Ultimaker 2+ and Ultimaker 2Extended+ 3D Printers
If the 3D printing world held a popularity contest, Ultimaker would be way up there. In fact, the 3D Hubs Trend Report, which is about as close as the industry…
Ultimaker’s Olsson Block Enables Architectural Firm to 3D Print a City in No Time
One of the really neat things about 3D printing, in my opinion, is how its development has been such a collaborative effort. The technology has advanced so rapidly largely because we…
Ultimaker Presents The Olsson Block–Included with 3D Printer Purchases in November
Sometimes a company’s best innovations come from its consumers, and Dutch company Ultimaker has research engineer Anders Olsson to thank for its latest product. He and his team at Sweden’s…
Ultimaker Releases Open Source Files for Ultimaker 2 Go and Extended
To open source or not to open source is a question that most 3D printer manufacturers are going to ask themselves at some point. I’ve heard compelling arguments both for…
