by Bill Decker | Aug 5, 2013 | Engineering, Ideas, Uncategorized
A man in New Zealand is designing and printing his own car by printing and combining separate parts. “The 3D printing should be finished in October, a mold/body cast will probably be a year after that and the final road legal vehicle, as a complete guess, will...
by Bill Decker | Jul 30, 2013 | Engineering, Ideas
There is new method of 3D printing called “freeform,” which doesn’t print support structures along with the needed object (unlike this one). It is well-exemplified by a new 3D freeform printer from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in...
by Bill Decker | Jul 26, 2013 | Engineering, Ideas
This Lego 3D printer can print with hot glue, but will eventually print with resin or wax. No surprise that a male engineering student was the maker – Matthew Krueger “always wanted a 3D printer, but […] doesn’t currently have the money to blow on...
by Bill Decker | Jul 21, 2013 | Engineering, Manufacturing
3D printing a rocket? Sounds like science fiction, but it’s happening. And this 3D-printed rocket part passed a key NASA test – hot-fire trials. The part was printed in part thanks to the capability of printing liquid metals – and NASA is also...
by Bill Decker | Jul 17, 2013 | Engineering, Ideas
Disney has been working on 3D printed optics for interactive electronics. “Optical mechanics are more reliable and efficient than wires because they’re more protected and are comprised of fewer parts.” What does ‘optical mechanics’ mean?...
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...
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