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3D Printing News Unpeeled: Soft Robotics, Camera Accessories & Electronics 3D Printing
A new paper, ¨A Flexible, Architected Soft Robotic Actuator for Motorized Extensional Motion¨ out of Northwestern University showcases a soft cylindrical handed shearing auxetic (HSA) actuator which can become either…
3D Printed Heat Spreader Could Improve Efficiency of Electronics
The low-hanging fruit for decarbonization has long been improving the efficiency of existing systems, hence the justification for LED lights and ENERGY STAR certified appliances. While such minor moves are…
Ericsson and Saab Fund Expansion of Swedish 3D Printing Consortium AMEXCI
Additive Manufacturing Excellence for Industry (AMEXCI), an AM consortium based in Sweden and comprised of a dozen of the Nordic world’s largest industrial conglomerates, announced that it has initiated a…
An Overview of the Types of Sensors Used in FDM 3D Printers
Even to the most experienced users, you sometimes can’t help but get the feeling that 3D printers are just magic. Looking at a fused deposition modeling (FDM) machine—whether it be…
Former Xerox CTO to Drive Growth for Impossible Objects’ Composite 3D Printing
Impossible Objects has developed one of the more exciting technologies in the 3D printing industry. Not only is its composite based additive manufacturing (CBAM) unlike any other method from a…
Dual-Dispensing Electronics 3D Printer Launched by nano3Dprint
Startup nano3Dprint has released a dual-syringe 3D printer for conductive inks, graphene solutions, UV curable polymers, pastes and more. With a price of $6,000, the B3300 can be an affordable…
CIA’s In-Q-Tel Invests in Fortify’s Composite 3D Printing
Fortify, manufacturer of the FLUX series of composite digital light processing (DLP) printers, just made two big announcements that bode well for the company’s future. First off, Fortify will be…
DuPont Receives New LAKE 3D Printer for Electronics 3D Printing
As discussed in an October 2020 article, chemical giant DuPont (NYSE: DD) has become one of the initial customers for Azul 3D. Now, the Illinois-based manufacturer of large-scale 3D printers has…
Micro 3D Printing Startup BMF Expands to Two New Facilities
Boston Micro Fabrication is expanding to two new facilities in Massachusetts, U.S. and Shenzhen, China. The company also reported that it has acquired an additional 100 customers in 2021, taking…
Electronics 3D Printing: Analysis of Rogers Corp’s New Dielectric Material for AM
Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG) has launched its Radix 3D Printable Dielectrics series of products at the IPC APEX EXPO 2022 currently taking place in San Diego. The materials signify an important…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: January 23, 2022
We’ve got plenty of webinars and events to tell you about in this week’s roundup: NAMIC and CASTOR are talking 3D printed parts identification, Carbon has a major announcement, HP…
3D Printing News Briefs, January 20, 2022: Metals, Fiber Batteries, & More
Starting with material news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, Velo3D has qualified a new superalloy for its Sapphire 3D printers. Equipment manufacturer PGV is saving time and money with…
Nano Dimension Unveiling DragonFly IV 3D Printer & FLIGHT Software at Productronica
Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME) and Printed Electronics (PE) leader Nano Dimension Ltd. (Nasdaq: NNDM) will be attending Formnext in Frankfurt, Germany, next week, showcasing the Fabrica 2.0 micro AM system from…
BASF’s Replique and Miele Partner for 3D Printed Spare Parts & Accessories
BASF’s Replique is a service that partners 3D printing services with clients for the making of 3D printed spare parts. The service just announced that it is to partner with…
Azul 3D and DuPont to Bring HARP 3D Printing to Electronics Materials
Illinois-based startup Azul 3D has been in the 3D printing headlines a lot recently for its commercialized ultra-fast large-format HARP, or High Area Rapid Printing, technology. First invented and developed…
4 Ways Ceramic 3D Printing Technologies Are Paving the Way for the Future
Ceramic 3D printing has always been a popular application of additive manufacturing, yet still on the relative margins when compared to thermoplastics or metals. Naturally, metals and plastics are quite…
nScrypt 3D Printing Electronics for US Air Force in Harsh Military Environments
3D printing is going hardcore for the military, with a team of developers recently testing materials for electronics meant to withstand harsh environments. The details are revealed in “Mechanical and…
3D Printing & Conductivity: Preparing New Polymer Bioinks for Electronics & Other Applications
International researchers delve into the area of materials science and 3D printing—a common theme today—but in this study, conductivity is the focus. Detailing their findings in the recently published ‘3D…
Researchers Use 3D Printing and Basic Electronic Components to Make Neuroscience More Accessible
While I was worse in math, science was also not one of my strong suits in school. So anything that makes it easier for students to better understand these complex…
New Startup Incubator Focuses on 3D Printing and Other Advanced Tech for Next Generation Electronics
In the 3D printing world, Israel is probably best known for being the country that brought us the DragonFly 2020 electronic circuit board 3D printer, courtesy of Nano Dimension. But…
US Marine Designs 3D Printed Surveillance Drone at Fraction of Regular Cost
There are all sorts of applications for 3D printing in the military, from a submarine hull and a trauma simulator to missile components and surveillance drones. Recently, Rhet McNeal, a 26-year-old…
Chinese Researchers Look to Functional Electronics 3D Printing by Liquid Metal Injection
In 2014, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with Tsinghua University researchers, published a paper in Science China Technological Sciences, titled “Liquid Phase 3D Printing for Quickly Manufacturing Conductive Metal…
Naval Research Shows 3D Printing Makes JPADS More Accurate and Cost-Effective
The United States Army, Air Force, and Marines have been using aerial delivery systems (ADS) since WWII, so obviously 3D printed drones have major applications in the military – they’re…
iMakr Sponsors Summer Merit Program for 3D Printing, Electronics and Programming Classes
It has been said that 3D printing is the wave of the future. While some outside observers and industry experts see a slowdown in the adoption of 3D printing technology…
