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Researchers Make Strong, 3D Printed Expandable Origami Structures for Engineering Applications
A collaborative team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the Beijing Institute of Technology, and Peking University are using 3D printing to directly build reconfigurable origami assemblages that…
3D Printing Creates Soft Tooling Inserts for Injection Molding Process
3D printing is a great technology on its own, but it also lends itself well to complementing other manufacturing technologies, such as injection molding. In a paper entitled “A Soft…
Study of 4D Printing Uses Grayscale to Create Reversible Shape Change in Photopolymers
Photopolymerization is a process that uses light to combine monomer molecules to create a polymer. It’s the basis of 3D printing, and in a dissertation called “Constitutive Modeling of Photopolymerization…
Researchers Develop 3D Printed Smart Hydrogel That Can Walk Underwater and Pick Up Objects
Pairing 3D printing with smart technology has led to some amazing innovations, such as metal parts that can track the performance of machines, windows that can keep your car cool…
Up Your 3D Printing Game with Bomar Oligomers for 3D Printing Inks & Resins
3D printing uses additive manufacturing processes that use gradual creation or addition of materials to form an object. 3D printing is widely used for manufacturing prototypes in many industries, including…
DSM Strengthens Additive Manufacturing Focus with New Integrated Business
Over the past two decades, global science-based company Royal DSM has emerged as one of the big names in the additive manufacturing industry, thanks in large part to its AM…
atum3D to Debut New 3D Printer, Software, Industry Excellence Packs at formnext
One of the biggest annual events in additive manufacturing is formnext, which begins in Frankfurt, Germany in just two weeks. With all of the international attention the conference garners, many…
SLM Solutions and XYZprinting Showcase Latest 3D Printers at TCT Show
Today is the last day of the 22nd TCT Show in Birmingham, an important additive manufacturing trade fair where visitors have been able to see the latest products and learning…
BYU Researchers Create First 3D Printed Microfluidic Device Effective Below 100 Micrometers
It’s possible to use 3D printing to create microfluidic devices, which are tiny ‘lab on a chip’ tools that use microscopic channels to work out small structures like cells and…
Todd Grimm Tells More Tales About Fantastic Developments in Additive Manufacturing at RAPID
Last week, we reported on the first part of Todd Grimm’s rapid-fire What’s New talk at RAPID + TCT. Grimm continued his talk by discussing the latest trends in digital light…
EnvisionTEC Introduces Seven New 3D Printing Materials and Upgrade to Perfactory 3D Printer Line
2017 is a big year for EnvisionTEC, which celebrates its 15th anniversary with the release of several new products. The 3D printer manufacturer has always been a prolific one, with its…
As EnvisionTEC Reaches 15 Years, CEO Al Siblani Reflects on the 3D Printing Company’s History and Future
EnvisionTEC turns 15 years old this year, and while it has a big celebration planned, the prolific 3D printer manufacturer has no intention of sitting back and taking things easy…
Metal 3D Printing is Poised to Become a New Manufacturing Paradigm, But Adoption Is Slow
Although metal 3D printing may seem like a new technology, it’s been around since the 1980’s, and used chiefly in production of high value, highly engineered, complex parts and prototypes….
SprintRay Introduces CES 2017 Innovation Awards Honoree MoonRay S DLP Desktop 3D Printer
California 3D printing startup SprintRay entered the 3D printing arena in late 2014 with its StarRay SLA 3D printer and launched a successful Kickstarter campaign less than a year later for its…
Collider Unveiled: Company Emerges from Stealth, Introduces 3D Printing and Programmable Tooling Technology
Nearly a year ago now, we were first introduced to the promising startup Collider, a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based company operating in stealth mode and picking up investments from such big names…
formnext 2016: atum3D Presents DLP Station 4 3D Printer for Both R&D and Production
atum3D presents their new DLP Station 4 at formnext 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany this week. Their latest product, according to the company, is the first machine based on Digital Light Processing…
Beat the DLP Printer! Autodesk Shows You How to Achieve Sub-Pixel Resolution, Manipulating Voxels with Luminosity
If you are a 3D printing enthusiast bent on making objects that are extremely accurate and with superior resolution, you’ve probably explored 3D printing processes such as Stereolithography (SL) and…
Failure to Produce Biodiesel Leads Students to Make Low-Cost DLP 3D Printer
At some point in our lives, we’ve all set out to complete a task that turns out to be more than we can really achieve and had to settle for…
Kudo3D Releases Their Latest PSP Technology Driven 3D Printer, The Titan 2
It’s been just about two years since the San Francisco, California-based startup Kudo3D launched a Kickstarter in support of the Titan 1, a lightning fast SLA 3D printer that uses…
Sculpteo Continues Testing Carbon CLIP Technology and Materials with Cyanate Ester
When 3D printing startup Carbon released the first video of of their CLIP 3D printing technology in action it was almost unbelievable. Watching a solid, three dimensional model be pulled from…
Disney Research Just Invented a “3D Copier” That Uses Light-Cured Resin to Duplicate Entire Objects Instantly
Using light-cured resins to 3D print physical objects is not a new technology. In fact, the oldest form of 3D printing is stereolithography (SLA), a process that uses a laser…
Hyvision Introduces Cubicon Single Plus and Cubicon Lux 3D Printers at Inside 3D Printing New York
Hyvision is a company I’ve been following for a while. Even before the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo in Seoul in June, I was using the Cubicon Single for…
Prodways Shows Off Prototype for Fastest Continuous DLP 3D Print to Date
I recently had the opportunity to visit Prodways, the largest French 3D printer manufacturer, in their headquarters and factory located in Les Mureaux, near Paris. The impressive technologies I saw (advanced…
How to Use the New Gray Smooth Detail Resin Material from i.materialise
With ten of the most advanced and common 3D printing technologies, twenty different 3D printing material options and over a hundred possible colors and surface finish combinations, Belgian 3D printing…
