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Researchers at MIT have unexpectedly stumbled upon a way to 3D print active electronics – meaning transistors and components for controlling electrical signals – without the use of semiconductors or even special fabrication technology.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading New tech enables 3D printing electronics without semiconductors
Using a 3D printer that works with molten glass, researchers forged LEGO-like glass bricks with a strength comparable to concrete. The bricks could have a role in circular construction in which materials are used over and over again.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading ‘Brain-breaking’ glass bricks are 3D printed, reusable, and strong
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a field of ever-growing importance, with many startups and existing companies seeking to either improve on existing AM technologies or market new approaches. At the RAPID …read more Continue reading New Additive Manufacturing Contenders: HIP and Centrifugal Printing
In the eternal quest to find more things to do with 3D printers, shoes have been in the spotlight for a while now. But how practical is additive manufacturing in …read more Continue reading A Look At 3D Printed Shoes: Hybrid, Fully Printed and Plain Weird
When you think about additive manufacturing, thoughts naturally turn to that hot-glue squirting CNC machine sitting on your bench and squeezing whatever plastic doodad you need. But 3D printing isn’t …read more Continue reading Electrospinning Artificial Heart Valves
Researchers have come up with a 3D printing method using liquid metal that’s claimed to produce structures at least 10 times faster than existing metal additive manufacturing processes, though it does so at the expense of fine detail.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Rapid liquid-metal 3D-printing process produces large parts in minutes
It might seem like 3D printing is a thoroughly modern technology, but the fact is, it’s been used in the industry for decades. The only thing that’s really new is …read more Continue reading Learning 3D Printing Best Practices from a Pro
If we asked you to design a circuit to blink a flashing turn signal, you would probably reach for a cheap micro or a 555. But old cars used bimetallic …read more Continue reading The Shuttle Engine Needed 3D Printing, But…
Additive metal manufacturing can be done in a number of ways, but the idea is generally the same: you run a big printer that deposits molten metal in layers onto a substrate that then fuse together into a solid shape. By printing from the ground up, yo… Continue reading Cheap, fast induction tech enables unlimited-size 3D metal printing
Since the very beginning, the prevailing wisdom regarding consumer desktop 3D printers was that they were excellent tools for producing prototypes or one-off creations, but anything more than that was …read more Continue reading Teardown: 3D Printed Space Shuttle Lamp