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3D Printing News Briefs, January 27, 2024: PAEK, Triangle Mesh, Bionic Arm, & More
In 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re talking about PAEK materials and QA for polymer 3D printing, before moving on to real-time tracking of electron beam additive manufacturing. Upwing Energy integrated…
3D Printing News Briefs, August 12, 2023: IDEX 3D Printer, Electric Motor, & More
In 3D Printing News Briefs today, Mingda launched a new high-temperature IDEX FDM 3D printer, while Wayland Additive offers new Mixed Reality service packages for the Calibur3. Collaborative researchers at…
A Star Wars Fan Receives an R2-D2 3D Printed Bionic Arm And A Call From Mark Hamill
Open Bionics is a company located in Bristol, United Kingdom, that develops affordable and assistive devices to enhance the human body. Founded by Samantha Payne and Joel Gibbard in 2014,…
UNO Researchers Looking for Study Participants to Test 3D Printed Prosthetic Arms
It’s necessary to perform studies on medical devices, 3D printed or otherwise, to make sure they’re working the way they’re supposed to be. Some examples we’ve heard about include: a…
A 3D Printed Prosthesis Helps a Brazilian Mother Recover her “Missing Piece”
Denise Vicentin is a 52-year-old Brazilian mother who lost her right eye due to skin cancer in 2010, which also left her with a gaping hole in her face and…
Pioneering 3D Printed Wrist Prosthesis for Kienbock’s Disease
With sights set on helping medicine solve complex pathologies, the Spanish-based healthcare company BRECA has become a pioneer in Europe, specializing in the design, manufacture, and marketing of customized implants….
TU Delft: A New Approach for the 3D Printed Hand Prosthetic
In the recently published ‘Functional evaluation of a non-assembly 3D-printed hand prosthesis,’ authors (from TU Delft) Juan Sebastian Cuellar, Gerwin Smit, Paul Breedveld, Amir Abbas Zadpoor, and Dick Plettenburg outline…
3D Printing in Dental Prosthetics: The Effects of Parameters on Fit & Gap
In the recently published ‘Effects of Printing Parameters on the Fit of Implant-Supported 3D Printing Resin Prosthetics,” authors Gang-Seok Park, Seong-Kyun Kim, Seong-Joo Heo, Jai-Young Koak, and Deog-Gyu Seo delve…
University’s 3D Printing Club Creates a 3D Printed Foot for a Local Dog
Tucker is a beautiful five-year-old Australian shepherd who has a lot of energy and loves people – a typical dog, in other words. One thing sets him apart from most…
Engineering Student Creates Inexpensive 3D Printed Eye Prosthesis
While some researchers have worked on 3D printed eyes that could reverse blindness and connect to WiFi, the possibility of a 3D printed eye prosthesis that looks real represents a…
3D Scanning and 3D Printing Restore a Man’s Face After Cancer
Jerry Faber recovered from cancer, but he lost part of his nose in the process. He had three plastic surgeries to try to restore his facial anatomy, but all of…
Custom 3D Printed Ossicular Prostheses Could Improve Treatment for Patients with Conductive Hearing Loss
Today is the last day of this year’s Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Annual Meeting, and we’ve been hearing a lot of announcements regarding 3D printing technology from the event,…
3D Printed Shoulder Implant Helps Patient Move Forward After Shooting Tragedy
While we usually depend on research scientists and doctors to come forth with innovative treatment methods, sometimes the patients are the ones who come up with the plan—and especially after…
Human-Computer Interaction Institute 3D Prints Special Prosthesis for Young Cello Player
According to the Wohlers Report 2016, the 3D printing industry was over $5.1 billion back in 2015, and it’s continued to grow into the $10 billion a year industry it is…
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…
Innventia Heads up the AMPOFORM Project to Manufacture 3D Printed Prostheses Using Organic Materials
The Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation tasked their innovation agency Vinnova to assemble a group of European companies to develop new, low cost, biodegradable materials for customized prosthetic and…
German Paralympian Cyclist Hopes to Race Using 3D Printed Prosthesis in 2016 Rio Games
When the Paralympics come to Rio de Janeiro this September, German silver medal winning cyclist Denise Schindler is hoping to be the first to race in the games using a…
Amputees May Soon Be Implanting 3D Printed Prosthetics Directly Onto Their Bodies
Patients who are missing limbs are generally prescribed socket-type prostheses that are custom-made to fit over their missing arm or leg. Despite two million people in the United States living…
GRiP: University of Florida Student Follows Her Passion & Changes Teen Lives with 3D Printed Prosthetics
Follow your passion. You’ve probably heard this as Oprah’s mantra, seen it on countless Facebook memes, and maybe even have it needlepointed on a pillow somewhere–but does that plan actually ever…
Pawsthetics Needs Your Help to Design and 3D Print Prostheses for Pets with Special Needs
Traditionally made prosthetic devices can cost the disabled community thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars, to have custom designed. But in the last few years 3D printing has…
The Father of Selective Laser Sintering 3D Printing is Awarded as UT’s Inventor of the Year
The Office of Technology Commercialization at the University of Texas is responsible for taking any scientific or biomedical discoveries made at the university and transitioning them into the marketplace. They…
Giving Ei Chi the Hand She Needs Through 3D Printing
Most people have a hand that they heavily favor. For about ninety percent of the world, the right hand is dominant. It can sometimes seem that the weaker hand is hardly…
3D Printing Helps Women Veterans Create Prosthetics Made Just for Them
Because of the expense involved with creating most artificial limbs, especially legs, there tends to be a uniformity and utilitarianism in design that make them all look alike. So while…
Even e-NABLE Needs a Helping Hand Once in Awhile–Including in Malaysia
When Ew Chee Guan entered a 3D design and printing contest being thrown by office product reseller Ricoh Malaysia he was hoping to just win enough money to continue to…
