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Bosch Buys Two SLM Solutions SLM500 Metal 3D Printers
Bosch has bought two SLM500 powder bed fusion (PBF) metal 3D printers from SLM Solutions. One will be used at the company’s 3D-MPC Manufacturing and Processing Center to make powertrain…
Wevolver and Mitsubishi Team up for KyronMAX Design Challenge with $25,000 Prize
Additive manufacturing (AM) provides product designers and engineers a high degree of geometric freedom. However, compared to injection molding, the material selection available in AM is incredibly limited. There are…
GE and University of Sydney Make 5 Year Metal 3D Printing Agreement
GE has announced a five year agreement with the University of Sydney to bring metal 3D printing training and machines to their Darlington campus. This campus is a part of…
10 Fun And Useful Things You Can 3D Print During Lockdown
During lockdown, we’ve got more free time to learn, play, and share together with our loved ones. But as most of us can’t go out to do anything but go…
Overcoming the challenges of large-scale 3D production of aircraft parts: Insights from EOS
The Aerospace giant Airbus is on its way to mass-producing structurally loaded components using AM, for the A350 Aircraft. Airbus Helicopters in Donauwörth collaborated with EOS, a global technology and…
The Tiertime X5 Giveaway Contest
Tiertime is announcing a contest to win an X5 3D printer, the manufacturer’s most advanced system to date and a finalist for the TCT Hardware Award in the field of…
Interview with Prosthetist and Orthotist Brent Wright of LifeEnabled on 3D Printing Prosthetics
Amidst the hubble and bubble of optimism, money and growth, there are also people doing good things with 3D printing. Open source prosthetics are one of the most exciting areas…
Japan’s Medical Dynamic Marketing Partners with Materialise for 3D Printed Hip Replacement Surgical Guides
As Materialise’s reach in 3D printing spans the globe and the technology gains steady momentum in Japan, it’s no surprise the two should intersect in a five-year partnership between the…
Amazing 6-Foot Tall 3D Printed Augmented Reality Cockpit Required 75 Days Worth of Printing to Complete
Virtual reality and augmented reality are two technologies which have been growing in use over the past few years. As computers become more powerful and software development continues to improve,…
ExOne, 3Dealise & Bruil Create Enormous, Complex 3D Printed Concrete Forms
It’s an enormous 3D printer which can create an object the size of a phone booth. With a build volume of 1800 x 1000 x 700 mm, the ExOne S-Max…
My Stem Kits Set to Launch 3D Printed STEM Educational Product on Kickstarter
A group of artists, technology specialists, and educators committed to bringing instructional 3D printing tools to K-12 education say they feel learning is most effective when students can actually feel…
Flexy-Hand 2 – Filaflex Remix: 3D Printed Prosthetic Hand Looks and Moves Like the Real Thing
I couldn’t count how many different stories we have done on 3D printed prosthetic hands. Most of these stories have come our way from various e-NABLE members. e-NABLE is a group…
UK AM Firm Says More Than 90 Percent of Britons Favor 3D Printing Education in Schools
When was the last time ninety-three percent of the populace – anywhere – agreed on something? They do when it comes to seeing students introduced and schooled in 3D printing technologies,…
Sinopec, China’s Largest Oil and Gas Producer, Entering 3D Printing Materials Market
China Petrochemical Corp., the largest single refiner of oil and gas in Asia, says they plan to invest in developing 3D printing materials over the course of the next decade…
Japanese Researchers Say Bone and Tissue Bioprinting Process Could Be A Year Away From Use In Humans
Japanese scientists say they’re well on the way to creating custom-made skin, bone, cartilege and joints using 3D bioprinting technology. The process combines stem cells – proto-cells capable of developing…
Bitcoin Entrepreneur 3D Prints A POS Terminal For Merchants To Bypass Bankers
Entrepreneur Ricardo Ferrer Rivero decided he would use 3D printing to build a merchant payment system that would let him bypass bankers, and so he settled on building terminals to…
Soccer Playing, 3D Printed MANAV Robot Debuts at IIT Mumbai TechFest
MANAV, which the developers say is India’s first 3D printed humanoid robot, was launched at IIT Mumbai TechFest recently. Built by the A-SET Training & Research Institute in New Delhi, the…
Spanish Brothers Build a 3D Printed PCB Printer
A pair of brothers from Madrid who say they’re passionate about design, electronics, robotics, mechatronics, and software are the developers behind Diyouware. It’s their initiative to build open-source, low-cost, and easy-to-manufacture…
Qualcomm Patent Hints at a World Where Things Are Fixed Before You Know They’re Broken — The 3D Printed Future
Imagine a world where critical parts for everything from appliances to electronic devices is detected and monitored via sensors attached through the Internet of Things (IoT) network, and inventory is built…
From Stone to Soap: 3D Printed Jewelry
It’s interesting to see what excites different people when it comes to 3D printed items. Some people are excited by printed food, some by printed toys and useful household gadgets,…
AirDog, World’s First Auto-follow Drone Designed to Track and Record Activities, is Entirely 3D Printed
Like I said in the past, two of the most exciting, but also a bit worrisome technologies which have emerged in our lives these last few years, are 3D printing…
3D Printed Auto Parts Marketplace Seeks Funding On Indiegogo
A man from Boone, North Carolina wants to create a marketplace for 3D printed car parts and is using Indiegogo as a way to crowdfund his grand idea. Landon Crist recently…
It’s All Man Made: Pre-Historic Technology Meets 3D Printing
In any show, exhibit, or book about pre-historic life you’ve seen the tear drop shaped hand axes that people used as an all purpose tool. Made from flint or other…
Giant 3D Printed Whale Fossil Now On Display At The Smithsonian
The National Museum of Natural History now has the 3D-printed fossil of a whale on display. 3D Systems is working in partnership with the Smithsonian in order to bring fossils…
