by Bill Decker | Jul 15, 2013 | Announcements, Software
The next Windows software update will feature a user-friendly 3D printing app that will make 3D printing similar to printing out a document. It seems the “roadblock” to everyday 3D printing at home “will be the consumers’ need to learn CAD or...
by Bill Decker | Jul 14, 2013 | International
This one minute video looks at India’s advantage in 3d...
by Bill Decker | Jul 13, 2013 | Bioprinting, Engineering
Thanks to a 3d-printed airway splint, an Ohio baby with tracheobronchomalacia can live life separately from hospital machines. “This is the first time 3D printing has been used to treat tracheobronchomalacia-at least in a human.” Now that the Food and Drug...
by Bill Decker | Jul 9, 2013 | Engineering, Ideas
Researchers at North Carolina State University have come up with a way to 3D print liquid metals and keep their new form. A syringe pushes out the metals, liquid at room temperature, and the metals are covered in an oxide film to keep their shape. This new technology...
by Bill Decker | Jul 8, 2013 | Engineering, Manufacturing
New Zealander Jake Evill has designed a new type of cast for broken limbs using 3D printing technology. This ‘Cortex Cast’ is a lightweight, hygienic, and aesthetically pleasing alternative to the traditional hard, plaster casts we have grown up with....
by Bill Decker | Jul 7, 2013 | Announcements
Here is a 3d Printing Film showing what we are all about; providing a voice to the 3d Printing...
by Bill Decker | Jul 7, 2013 | Engineering, Manufacturing
At the University of Toronto, a 3D-printed gun has been printed. It isn’t functioning yet because its makers are abiding by Canadian gun laws, but they can easily modify it to shoot. The lab in Toronto downloaded the American 3D-printed gun design the first day...
by Bill Decker | Jul 4, 2013 | Engineering, Ideas
Robugtix has created a 3D-printed, remote-controlled robot-spider that moves so naturally that anyone who doesn’t know any better will think it’s a huge, mutant, freaky arachnid. The 3D-printed robot-spider moves using 26 motors throughout its body. It is...
by Bill Decker | Jun 30, 2013 | Engineering, Manufacturing
The University of Nottingham has a team working on design optimization for different medications so that 3D printing various pills and inhalers becomes feasible. With these innovations, 3D printing in medicine will become an invaluable commodity. They say the next...
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