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MIT & Boston Children’s Hospital Conducting Study to See if 3D Printed Heart Models Offer Improvement in Surgical Outcome
3D printing offers enormous reward in that you can make things pretty much however you deem fit–it’s your 3D design and you can make it or tweak it at whim, enjoying the…
MIT Researchers Create ‘Fab Forms’ – Software That May Make 3D Modeling & Printing Easy for All
I must admit that, while I have been covering the 3D printing space for nearly two years now, and have had an interest in the technology long before that, when…
MIT Develops Possible Holy Grail of 3D Printers–Prints Up to 10 Materials At Once for Under $7k
What’s the ultimate vision for 3D printers, say 30-50 years in the future? Many within the industry believe that eventually 3D printers will evolve into systems which operate sort of…
G3DP Project: Mediated Matter & MIT Glass Lab Develop Advanced Glass 3D Printer
When it comes to the selection of materials compatible with 3D printing, things seem to really be picking up as of late. From plastics to metals to clays, concrete and…
Interview with MIT’s John Hart: 3D Printing Summer Class at University Looks to Teach Professionals
As 3D printing becomes more and more commonplace within the workforce, schools around the world are beginning to realize that this technology is not a fad. It isn’t going anywhere,…
MIT Researchers 3D Print Spider Webs to Explore the Mechanical Traits of Silk
The science of materials is one that often walks in tandem with the technology of 3D printing. Researchers in many areas work continually to not only accentuate the many uses of the 3D…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — April 11, 2015
This week’s 3D printing stories we didn’t cover run the gamut from quite serious to whimsical, beginning with serious news of an MIT student’s use of 3D printing to document…
US Army is Using 3D Printing to Develop Body Armor Inspired by Fish Scales
A collaboration between American and Israeli researchers has produced a prototype of a new type of body armor inspired by the flexibility of fish scales and other naturally occurring imbricated…
NVBOTS Lands $2 Million in New Round of Seed Funding
NVBOTS, the 3D printer manufacturing company founded by a group of MIT graduates, say they’ve secured a $2 million seed funding round led by domestic and international investors. Additional leadership…
Researchers Develop Incredibly Strong 3D Printed Microlattices — Can Hold 10,000 Times Own Weight
The materials engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory work on the bleeding edge of 3D printing, and they’ve now developed a substance and printer which mixes metal and ceramics with…
MIT, Autodesk & Stratasys are Working With ‘Secret’ Materials to Develop New 4D Printing Applications
3D printing has come a long way since its inception in 1984. Today, we can print amazing things — from toys on home desktop 3D printers to replacement parts for…
Synthetic DNA to Become “Ink” for 3D Printed Nanoscale Structures in Medical and Scientific Applications
We’ve heard about filament to produce our common and not so common 3D printed objects and devices. We’ve also heard about the medical advances that 3D printing facilitates, such as…
MIT Researchers Create Water-Based Robotic Fabrication Method for Natural Biodegradable 3D Printing
Although we have mentioned its benefits so many times in the past, while 3D printing is substantially cutting back on waste within the manufacturing industry, it’s actually creating hundreds of…
Research Scientist Siblings Create 3D Printed Lamp Demonstrating Fruit Fly Brain Activity Data
I have a thing for lamps, but until now I’d never considered adding one to my collection that in its illumination is a 3D printed map relaying scientific data from a…
Researchers Use Big Data And Twitter DecaHose to Light up 3D Printed Model of MIT Campus
Students and researchers lit up their own version of MIT recently with a triumvirate of technology and analysis, making science look awfully fun in the process. Just check out LuminoCity,…
Ben Katz 3D Prints a 1:60 Scale Model Roller Coaster – Now Working the Full Scale Version
3D Printing can really be quite amazing. Each and every day, we are exposed to new unique ways in which artists, engineers, and designers use the technology to create objects,…
‘Fab By Example’ Software Makes Creation of Large Complicated 3D Models a Cinch
3-D printing has really opened up manufacturing to the masses because anything-food, prosthetics, car accessories–can be created with a 3-D printer. Certainly this is a good thing, however, there’s a big issue…
MIT Researchers Create a ‘Smart’ 3D Printer That Can Locate an Object & Print on Top of it
Last week, I reported on 3 MIT students that had created a 3D Printer capable of printing with ice cream. The Ice Cream 3D Printer was developed as part of Professor…
Indian Waste Pickers Produce 3D Filament with ProtoPrint
The job commonly known as ‘rag picking’ or ‘waste picking’ has been around for as long as humans have been discarding things. The waste pickers perform an important function by…
MIT Researchers 3D Print Shape Shifting Materials, Could Lead to New Types of Robots
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers, with the help of 3D printing, have developed a material that can switch between hard and soft. The material is described in a paper in…
I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for 3D Printed Ice Cream? 3D Ice Cream Printer is Created at MIT
With today’s technology, we have the ability to 3D print in plastics, metals, ceramics, and even Nutella. Each and every day it seems as though we are introduced to a…
3D Printed or Made by Hand: Models of Math Give Form to Equations
Many people don’t realize that math’s pages of equations have 3 dimensional counterparts and even fewer realize just how beautiful those forms can be. MIT has a series of such…
Researchers Use Microstereolithography 3D Printers to Print Objects 400X’s Stronger Than Current Standards
When it comes to 3D printing, most people visualize the process on a macro scale, a scale which can be observed with the human eye. Critics of 3D printing argue…
