3D printers bring hi-tech manufacturing to the home
(Reuters) - Not so long ago, harried moms and dads would brave the holiday season crowds at the mall to buy those Lego accessories or that Star Wars battle cruiser.articles.chicagotribune.com
3D Printers Are Getting Better At Printing Blood Vessels
Like most major advancements in 3D printing, the innovation comes from doing away with the idea of starting from scratch. Other methods take so long because they're laboriously layering materials that can take hours to just create one blood vessel ...www.webpronews.com
The Printing Business Goes 3D
Also known as additive manufacturing, 3D printing fabricates parts by "printing" them whole from digital data, one wafer-thin layer at a time.www.trefis.com
3D Printing Brings the Science Lab to Your Backyard
But thanks to 3D printing and a plethora of free, modifiable online plans, both professionals and DIYers are building their own equipment for a fraction of the cost, opening up a new world for backyard Einsteins and university researchers alike.www.popularmechanics.com
ParaNorman producers make film using 3D colour printers
Lights... camera... 3D colour printer. During the making of ParaNorman, a new stop-motion animation film released this week in the UK, four 3D printers were essential members of the crew. Stop-motion is a traditional film-making technique that dates ...www.bbc.co.uk
Tissues from a Printer
Led by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, the NAMII will focus on developing and commercializing 3D printing (i.e., additive manufacturing), and provide the infrastructure needed to support new additive manufacturing ...www.genengnews.com
What is 3D Printing?
3D Printing has the potential to literally turn the world of manufacturing on it's head. It allows objects to be built up a layer at a time from a wide variety of materials.www.azom.com
SA building fastest and largest 3D printer
In 3D printing, or additive layer manufacturing as it is known to the engineering world, parts are formed by layering material in thin wafers and - according to their precise, required shape - welding these layers using lasers.www.bdlive.co.za
NASA Turns to 3D Printing for Self-Building Spacecraft
Spacecraft could build themselves or huge space telescopes someday by scavenging materials from space junk or asteroids. That wild vision stems from a modest proposal to use 3D printing technology aboard a tiny satellite to create a much larger ...www.space.com
DIY lab equipment, courtesy of 3D printing
A glimpse of that world appears in today's issue of Science, provided by 3D printing, the relatively low-cost fabrication technique where ceramics, polymers, and other materials are deposited in layers to build up a three-dimensional shape.arstechnica.com
The Printing Business Goes 3D
Industry giant Lexmark International (NYSE: LXK) reported earnings fell 61 percent in the second quarter of 2012, prompting a 13 percent employee reduction.www.investingdaily.com
Slideshow: 3D Printing Will Go to Mars
If all an astronaut needed to take along was a 3D printer with the right software library of tools and spare parts (plus some raw materials), that would make things a lot simpler, and it would probably cut fuel costs by a lot.www.designnews.com
ExOne Unveils New 3D Printing System
"We've made tremendous strides in 3D printing in the last decade and what our machines can do today is simply remarkable.www.manufacturing.net
The most badass thing you'll see today: a bald eagle with 3D-printed beak
Here's some feel-good news for your Thursday, not to mention one of the most inspired applications of 3D-printing we've seen yet: a bald eagle with a prosthetic, 3D-printed beak. When this bald eagle, named "Beauty" by her caretakers, was shot in the ...io9.com
Which 3D-printing service will make you a gun?
As I explored in this post, while it's possible to print a working firearm component with a 3D printer, it's not exactly the best way to create such a component.news.cnet.com
New 3D Printing System from ExOne Vastly Increases Print Speeds and ...
The M-FLEX 3D Printing System - on display in the Additive Manufacturing area of the IMTS Emerging Technology Center (Booth N-650 in the North Building) - dramatically increases the capabilities of a 3D metal printer, offering more than seven times the ...www.heraldonline.com
3D Printers Finally Fulfill Their Grand Purpose With Burritob0t
3D printers are pretty amazing, but they have so much more potential. There must be some higher purpose for 3D printers that's just waiting around the corner. A recent graduate student of New York's Tisch School for the Arts has found that higher purpose.www.webpronews.com
Statue Without Limitations
At the center of the creative process was Geomagic Studio 3D digital-reality software, which served as the bridge between front-end 3D scanning from hometown company Creaform and 3D printing from 3D Systems. Scanning in a Day. Roy's specialty is ...www.cgw.com
Sigma Labs, Inc. Announces Memorandum of Understanding With Morris ...
Presently, the 3D Printing industry, led by 3D Systems Corporation and Stratasys, Inc., is primarily making plastic parts, yet the demand for precision metal parts is increasing at a faster pace than the demand for plastic parts.www.sacbee.com
Eagle Gets Printed Beak
Beauty the bald eagle was shot in the face, which left her looking like she was wearing a duck mask, and also unable to eat on her own.www.patheos.com
Friday, September 14, 2012
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