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FreeFAB 3D Printing Technique Comes to Life in the Crossrail Project
The largest construction project in Europe right now involves digging a new railway system, running east to west across London. Called Crossrail, the ambitious project will result in a railway…
ETH Zurich Researchers Use 3D Printing Technology to Create First Silicone Artificial Heart for Testing Purposes
We’ve seen plenty of 3D printed heart models used as helpful surgical planning tools, and 3D printing technology has helped with heart conditions in many other ways, like 3D printed…
Cytosurge Develops Nanoscale FluidFM into Consumer-Friendly 3D Printing Process
FluidFM is a technology that has been around for quite a while, but it’s also constantly developing and changing – much like 3D printing in general. The technology was originally…
DFAB House Brings ETH Zurich 3D Printing and Digital Construction Techniques from Research Lab to Construction Site
Most people, by now, have at least heard about 3D printed houses and other structures. They’re not exactly commonplace, yet, and they’re still amazing to think about and to see,…
ETH Zurich Shares Details on How 3D Printing Helped Their Concrete Canoe Sail to Victory
You learn something new every day, and one thing I learned recently is that concrete canoe competitions are a thing. We recently covered one of them, as it featured a…
ETH Zurich Researchers Develop Load-Bearing 4D Printed Structures
While 3D printing still seems like magic for some people, the novelty has worn off for others – but I doubt that’s true for many people regarding 4D printing. 3D…
Empa Researchers Develop Eco-Friendly Cellulose 3D Printing Ink
Cellulose is the main building block of plant material, and it may become the main building block of many 3D printed items, as well. The all-natural, eco-friendly, abundant material has…
Zurich Researchers Build Tiny Redox Flow Battery, Supplied with Electrolytes Thanks to 3D Printing
Scientists and researchers from ETH Zurich and IBM Research Zurich have built an extremely small redox flow battery – it’s only around 1.5mm thick, and can potentially provide energy to…
Digital Fabrication in Architecture and 3D Printing Materials in Focus at AAAS Annual Meeting
The use of 3D printing in the construction field is not a new thing – there are 3D printed office buildings and laboratories, a 9-foot-tall 3D printed pavilion, 3D printed…
Researchers Win Swiss Technology Award for Work in 3D Printing and Reverse Engineering with Concrete
Reverse engineering is one of those methods that is fascinating to many because it means you have to think about a project—in reverse. Even if we have no idea how…
Disney Research Devises a Method of 3D Printing Models That Balance or Breakdance
It’s incredibly frustrating when you spend hours – or days – designing and 3D printing a perfect figurine or other decorative object only to have it refuse to stand up…
Castles in the Sand: Adam Kushner Discusses 3D Printing Architecture at Inside 3D Printing New York
One of my great passions is my love of architecture. My father had his own architectural practice for nearly 40 years and my grandfather had his own architectural firm, too….
New Technique Takes Multicolor 3D Printing to New Heights
There are quite a few limitations that are still keeping 3D printing technology from reaching its full potential, including build size constraints, material restrictions, and the lack of multicolor printing…
The Jamming Phenomenon: 3D Printing with String & Rocks May Change the Face of Architecture
Just pull the string and the whole thing comes down. While that’s some highly engineered string, the concept may simplify the world of architecture and construction in terms of materials…
ETH Zurich and Cytosurge Introduce FluidFM: Metal 3D Printing on a Nano Level
Two of the fastest-growing segments of the additive manufacturing industry are metal 3D printing and micro 3D printing. It makes sense, then, that a combination of the two would be…
Nanodrip 3D Printing Technology May Soon Enable Lightning Fast Touchscreen Devices
I was having a lot of trouble with my smartphone the other night. I just got the thing about six months ago, and it’s already acting up. It keeps freezing,…
Nano-Scale 3D Printing Technology Helps Researchers Print the Smallest Color Picture Ever Printed
Measuring itself at an astoundingly tiny 0.0092 mm, or 80 µm x 115 µm, in size Guinness World Records Limited has just named ETH Zurich and their spin off company…
3D Printed “Rock Print” Seems Like Magic, but it’s Really Science
Architecture is generally a pretty permanent thing. Sure, nothing is truly permanent, but a structure built from concrete, metal and other heavy-duty materials is obviously built to last. So when you hear…
3D Printed “Edge Detector” Can Sort Soundwaves
The concept of sound edge detection is the basis for commonly used technologies like ultrasound or sonars. Essentially, a sound is emitted at a specific frequency and then a machine…
Additively Launches the 3D Printing Material Finder App
Finding the right 3D printing material is critical to the success of a project and now Additively says the process has just become easier with their Material Finder, “an easy-to-use tool…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — March 21, 2015
This week’s news we didn’t cover kicks off with a topic that so many printing enthusiasts love: printable figures inspired by artistic characters. We have printable robot files included with a…
Microscopic 3D Printing May Allow Micro-Robots to Deliver Medicine Inside Your Body
I didn’t really see this one coming, and if you did, I am duly impressed. With 3D printing technology, it’s not all about the external. Many medical breakthroughs due to 3D…
ETH Zurich University Spin-off, Additively, Launches to Help Companies in Realizing Their 3D Printing Goals
Additive manufacturing is changing the world, changing business practices, and saving companies millions of dollars each month around the globe. For some larger companies it’s often easy to integrate 3D…
