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3D Printing News Unpeeled: Tadej Pogacar’s Colnago, Room Temperature Metal 3D Printing
Two time Tadej Pogacar Colnago V4Rs for the Tour de France has some 3D printing components on it. In some videos we learn that there are polymer components made including a 3D…
Germany’s Rapid Shape Brings Automated 3D Printing to North Carolina
While not as well-known in the U.S., German 3D printer manufacturer Rapid Shape has a unique approach to vat photopolymerization that may actually be more advanced than most products on…
NC State Researchers Successfully 3D Print Metallic Glass Alloys in Bulk
Amorphous metal, or metallic glass, is a solid metal material with a disordered atomic-scale structure, not dissimilar to conventional glass. The material is not like the glass you see in…
Metal 3D Printing Keeps Cyrano the Cat Landing on All Four Feet
Direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) is an industrial 3D printing process, increasingly put to use in applications such as the manufacture of car parts. But EOS recently used its DMLS technology…
NC State Researchers Look to the Structural Stability of Sand Castles to Develop New 3D Printing Method for Silicone Paste
The other day I was walking through a local outdoor mall, and noticed that several wooden platforms had been set up. The platforms weren’t empty: each one contained a rather…
Industrial Design Student Creates Simple, Ingenious Soft Drink Bottle Carrying Device
Up-and-coming industrial designer Sunny Su is part of a new generation of creators who use 3D printing to take product designs from concept to reality faster than ever before. In…
NC State’s Chancellor Receives Surprise Titanium 3D Printed Football Prior to Spring Game Today
Although we are still several months away from the kickoff of the 2015/2016 college football season, that doesn’t mean we can’t already start getting excited–after all, this will only be…
