Wounded sea turtle healed with 3-D printing
Birch Aquarium has teamed up with UC San Diego Library's Digital Media Lab to create what is believed to be the first 3-D-printed brace for a sea turtle's shell.
The loggerhead sea turtle was rescued from a...
HP Labs Develops Three-Stage Identification and Authentication System for 3D Printed Objects
This will be especially helpful in the future when we’ve moved past the frequent prototyping and custom one-off stage to a time when high-performance parts and machines, like jet engines, will be routinely 3D...
Books You Should Read: The 3D Printing Handbook
3D printing was invented in the 80s, twenty years passed, patents expired, and then several diverse uses for 3D printing technology were found. As such, the tips and techniques for 3D printing — especially filament-based...
3D Printing in Space – The Final Frontier
While down here there’s room for debate about the suitability of 3D printing for anything more serious than rapid prototyping, few would say the same once you’ve slipped the surly bonds of Earth. With...
MIT engineers design super fast desktop 3D printer
The team did away with the traditional nozzle design, which uses a "pinch-wheel" mechanism to feed through the plastic, replacing it with a screw mechanism that turns within the printhead.
Although 3D printing can speed...
This enormous 3D printer is designed for a huge job: printing yacht parts
Development of this huge additive manufacturing system goes back to September 2017, when CEAD began collecting market input and looking for a launch customer for the 3D printer. That customer has since been confirmed...
The Impact of 3D Printing on Education in 2017
Over the last several years, the education sector has been working to improve lesson plans, making them more technology-based and interactive, in order to get young students interested in technology like 3D printing. We're...
Welcoming in New Filaments for 2018
As a 3D printer company, we at M3D rang in the New Year a little different this year. Beyond just 3D printers, M3D has been creating a wide range of open-source filament since 2012...
The CNC mill is the foundation of most modern machine shops
The CNC mill is the structure of the majority of the contemporary factory, and also it's normally the device with one of the most needs completing for its time. When small-volume components are required,...
The Top 5 Pain Points in Motion Control Design
Today, layout designers establishing activity control features have to not just take care of technology-related concerns, yet additionally with a lengthy listing of industrial obstacles and also project-related concerns that impact their application...
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