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FreeMelt Sells Electron Beam Metal 3D Printer to DESY Particle Accelerator
Sweden-based FreeMelt is pioneering open electron beam powder bed fusion (E-PBF) machines. The company makes open architecture systems where every thinkable parameter is available for change by the user. These…
3D Printing Market Outlook 2021: Pro Desktop Material Extrusion (FDM, FFF)
In this 2021 Market Outlook, Trends, and Competitive Landscape for the Desktop Material Extrusion Market, we’re continuing a helicopter view of the desktop material extrusion or Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM,…
3D Printing Market Outlook 2021: Mid-Market Desktop Material Extrusion (FDM, FFF)
In this 2021 Market Outlook, Trends, and Competitive Landscape for the Desktop Material Extrusion Market, we’re continuing our helicopter view of the desktop material extrusion or Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM,…
3D Printing Market Outlook 2021: Low-Cost Desktop Material Extrusion (FDM, FFF)
In this 2021 Market Outlook, Trends, and Competitive Landscape for the Desktop Material Extrusion Market, we’re going to take a helicopter view of the desktop material extrusion or Fused Deposition…
3D Printed Implant Device Stimulates Nerves in Bird Brain for Possible Treatment of Human Diseases
Using a new 3D printed microscale implantable device, a team of researchers successfully recorded electrical impulses that drive vocalizations in the peripheral nervous system of birds. Thanks to a customized…
DLP 3D Printing: Mechanical & Strain-Sensing for Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites
Researchers from Spain continue the trend for the development of new combinations of materials, detailing their study in the recently published ‘Mechanical and Strain-Sensing Capabilities of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites…
3D Printing Carbon Monoxide Sensors with SnO2 Graphene Nanoink
US researchers have been working to improve methods for detecting carbon monoxide, releasing the details of their recent study in ‘Additive Manufacturing of a Flexible Carbon Monoxide Sensor Based on…
Electronics 3D Printing Part 4: Research Toward the Future
What gets developed in university and corporate labs often defines the next generation of a given technology. While we have covered two of the most established methods for 3D printing…
Launch of 3DPrint.com PRO
We’re happy to announce 3DPrint.com PRO. 3DPrint.com, of course, will always remain free and available for all. But, as you know our parent company also owns SmarTech. SmarTech is a…
Carbon Fiber 3D Printing, Part Seven: R&D
So far in our series on 3D printing carbon fiber and other reinforcement materials, we’ve discussed much about the present state of the technology, including large-scale composite deposition and some of…
Make all Things Part 4 – Expert Opinions
This is a brief informational update within the vertical garden project.
Charles River Associates International on Bioprinting
Charles River Associates International is a company that advises governments, law firms, and companies on weighty strategic matters and issues related to specific expertise that the company has. CRA may…
Alchemite Machine Learning Engine Used to Design New Alloy for Direct Laser Deposition 3D Printing
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Intellegens, which is a spin-off from the University of Cambridge, created a unique toolset that can train deep neural networks from noisy or sparse data. The machine…
Auburn University Receives NASA Contract to Develop 3D Printing Techniques to Improve Liquid Rocket Engines
Back in 2015, Auburn University and NASA signed a Space Act Agreement for the purposes of exploring and advancing additive manufacturing applications and research together. The university has remained committed to 3D printing, and…
3DPrint.com The Year in Review: 3D Printing 2018
2018 was a very exciting year in 3D Printing. If we look at the big trends we can see the rise of startups with tens of millions in investment, market…
New Study Looks at 3D Printing Research Over Last Decade
3D printing is a field of research unto itself, as applications, materials, and machines provide fertile ground for in-depth and fascinating study. How much research is really out there, though?…
French-Australian Research Collaboration Centers on Metallic 3D Printing and Marine Propellers
3D printing is often used for applications in the maritime and naval fields, and now a research collaboration on marine technologies between institutes in Australia and France is hoping to further…
Nervous System Explores 3D Printing to Create Form in Pre-Stretched Fabric
If you haven’t heard of the design group Nervous System, you should take a few minutes to look at the work they have been producing over the past ten years….
Sculpteo Partnering with Fluigent on Horizon 2020-Funded 3D Printing Microfluidics Research Project
The European Commission’s Horizon 2020 framework is the biggest Research and Innovation program ever launched by the EU. With almost €80 billion of available funding until the year 2020, the program…
MIT Researchers Work to Capture Silent Speech with Partially 3D Printed AlterEgo Device
Not all of us have the opportunity to have our inner monologue recorded on Twitter or transcribed by a 1950s style secretary, notepad in hand, pen at the ready. The…
Using 3D Technologies to Examine Rare Specimens of the Extinct Tasmanian Tiger
In 1936, the last known Tasmanian Tiger died in captivity at Hobart Zoo; locked out of its shelter, it was unable to survive the extreme daytime heat and below-freezing nighttime…
3D Printing News Briefs: February 23, 2018
We’ve got plenty of business and 3D printer news for you in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, followed by a research project involving additive manufacturing technology and a 3D printed…
3D Technology Provides Musician with Skywalker Hand
Spoiler alert: Luke Skywalker loses his right hand during a duel with Darth Vader (who is also his father, which, in case you’ve lived under a rock, might also be…
Aether 1 3D Bioprinter Promises a Plethora of Printing Options for Artistic Expression
My father once paid $100 for a calculator. This was back in the mid-1970s and this calculator could perform the basic functions and print them as he entered them. It…