3D printed LED
Electronics, like antennas and batteries can be 3D printed. But LED’s and semiconductors have been elusive. You would need some other manufacturing technique to make them work, which limits what they can do and where they’ll fit. A team of Princeton researchers recently solved this problem, however.
Continue reading… “New 3D printing technology will put electronics into just about everything”
Astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore poses with the 3D-printed socket wrench emailed
Anthony Domanico – We’re finally starting to see the benefits of having a 3D printer aboard the International Space Station, as NASA and Made in Space basically emailed a ratcheting socket wrench to astronaut Barry Wilmore.
Continue reading… “Astronaut aboard the ISS needs a wrench and NASA successfully ’emails’ him one”
Stretchable smart skin
South Korean and U.S. researchers have developed a stretchable material that senses touch, pressure, and moisture, and could be used to give artificial limbs feeling.
By David Talbot on December 9, 2014
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Streetscooter
The production of engineering of e-mobility components team from Aachen University built the Streetscooter ‘C16′ electric car using a Stratasys objet1000 multi-material 3D-printer. All the vehicle’s exterior parts, including the large front and back panels, doors, bumper systems, side skirts, wheel arches and a few interior components, were machine fabricated with tough digital ABS materials.
Continue reading… “Streetscooter C16 – an electric car 3D printed on a Stratasys 3D printer”
HP’s new Multi Jet Fusion 3D printer.
In October, HP announced that it’s entering the 3D printing market with an industrial machine that is 10 times faster and 50% cheaper than current systems, immediately brought out the online snark.
Continue reading… “Manufacturing will radically change with HP’s move into the 3D printing market”
The digital design of the crown is transmitted to a CNC (computer numerical control) milling machine.
By Saul Kaplan: As a tech junkie and geek wannabe I’ve been paying attention to 3D printing and the exploding maker movement. When I say paying attention, I mean reading about it, watching hackers and hobbyists make stuff, and wondering if there is more to the technology than the brightly colored plastic tchotchkes cluttering my desk. 3D printing really hasn’t affected me yet. That is until I recently chipped a tooth and had no choice but to visit my family dentist. It was the dentist’s chair that more than any article or demo converted me to the potential of 3D printing. Sometimes disruption has to hit you right in the mouth before you pay attention.
Continue reading… “3D printed dental crowns while you wait”
Brainform 3D printed brain.
Brainform is New Zealand-based company that will print a high quality 3D model of your brain. The company’s mission is simply stated on its website: “We 3D print brains.”
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Business owners today are actively deciding whether their next hire should be a person or a machine. After all, machines can work in the dark and don’t come with decades of HR case law requiring time off for holidays, personal illness, excessive overtime, chronic stress or anxiety.
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Carvey
The desktop 3D solutions we’ve seen lately have been printers, stacking material layer by layer to create the desired form. The Carvey 3D Carving Machine does the opposite.
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This 3D printer has been developed to build cheap, sustainable houses using a clay-like paste.
WASP, an Italian 3D printer company, demonstrated a giant, three-armed printer they created at Maker Faire Rome. WASP’s 3D printer is unique as it can be assembled on site within two hours, and then filled with mud and fiber to build extremely cheap houses in some of the most remote places on Earth. (Video)
3D printed map.
While modern technology has benefited most of us by turning the things we consume from physical object into pixels on a screen, those with sight difficulties don’t get along well with visual stimuli or touchscreen devices. We have seen Yahoo! Japan develop Hands On Search, a project that lets blind kids carry out web searches with 3D printed results. Now the country’s governmental department GSI is creating software that will enable those with visual impairments to print out 3D versions of online maps.
Continue reading… “3D printed maps will enable the blind to navigate their city”
Prosthetic Wolverine claws
Prosthetic hands are great. But when you’re designing and building them for children, as Arron Brown does, prosthetic Wolverine claws are even better. Brown, a 3D printing enthusiast in Grand Rapids, Michigan, volunteers for a global organization called Enabling the Future, which designs and prints prosthetic fingers and hands for people in need. (Video)
Continue reading… “3D printed hands turn kids into superheroes”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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