If it feels like additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies are finding a place in the mainstream of everyday products and life, it’s because they are. It has been a long road to get here, but today additive technologies are finally in the conversations of engineers and product designers at the earliest planning and design
We’ve long had a passion at 3DPrint.com for Kirigami shapes, be it in the form of bandages, nano fabrication, or sensors. We also wrote a lot about metamaterials and, more recently, about 3D printing on cylinders to add to existing shapes or to create new geometries. So something that combines all of these things is
One topic that I do my best to stay on top of is the inseparability between rising adoption of metal additive manufacturing (AM) and the growing awareness of a need to build resilience into critical minerals supply chains. The latter clearly represents a much larger scope of activity than the former, but precisely for that
HeyGears was started in 2015 and has been making value-driven Vat Polymerization systems for dental and home use. The company is marketing savvy and very driven. Now the firm has put its G1 printer on Kickstarter. As we put in our Desktop UV printers and 3D printing collide article, the intersection of two very different
We’re kicking things off today with software news, as the new Meshy 7 is now live. Then we’ll move on to business, with ExOne and voxeljet now operating as a single legal entity. We’ll finish with custom 4D printed implants from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Mass General Brigham, and 3D printed guns in Australia.
A new 3D printed stent developed at New York University (NYU) does not look like the devices doctors typically use today. Instead of a simple tube, the prototype resembles a lily flower. Researchers believe the design could improve drainage and help patients recover faster from gastric leaks, a serious complication that can occur after weight-loss
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The Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) boom was devastating for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Peaking in 2021 — and, of course, subsuming companies from industries far beyond AM — the SPAC boom brought billions of dollars into AM and left very little to show for it, other than an investment world that grew wholly
In this series, we’re looking at the main considerations when designing and implementing a 3D printed product. In this case, we’re using Cathy’s 3D printed brace business as an example. Cathy is renting a place, getting a machine, and wants to do her own production. She’s making a brace that’s around 150 grams and is
Germany- based Malping, located in Neuhausen auf den Fildern, is moving into more high performance materials for Material Extrusion. The service operates FGF and FDM high-temperature material printers, and offers parts, along with consulting, to industry. Now working with materials such as PPS-GF20, PEKK, PEEK, and ULTEM 9085, the firm wants to work with more
In my most recent post about RIMPAC, I noted that US military joint exercises appear to be the latest function of the US government to be leveraged by the Trump administration as a bargaining chip, in connection with the administration’s cutting short a joint exercise between US and South Korean armed forces. I pointed out
