3D printing technology news

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ESA prints 3D metal shape in space for first time

Tech demo paves way to producing spare parts and tools during missions

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3D print glass

Engineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures

What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building's lifetime and reassembled into a new structure, in a sustainable cycle that could supply generations of buildings using the...

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3D Printing On Top Of Laser Cut Acrylic

[Julius Curt] needed to mark acrylic panels with a bit more clarity than the usual way of rastering the surface, so they attempted to 3D print directly to an acrylic sheet, which worked perfectly. …

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I'm still plating!

Simulated construction of plant-based fish meat with composite structure via 3D printing

To date, about 90% of fish resources worldwide have already reached their sustainable fishery limit. Meanwhile, intensive farming and aquaculture contribute to significant environmental pollution and degradation. To address both the challenges of limited production efficiency and environmental...

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Afterburner

F-18 Afterburner Variable Nozzle - 3D model by Shayan CAD on Thangs

Reverse-Engineered afterburner variable nozzle based on F-18 fighter jet. **Model Info:** This model is just an experiment to understand how an afterburner no

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See The Hands-on Details Behind Stunning Helmet Build

[Zibartas] recently created wearable helmets from the game Starfield that look fantastic, and we’re happy to see that he created a video showcasing the whole process of design, manufacture, a…

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Cyberpack Puts All The Radios Right On Your Back

A disclaimer: Not a single cable tie was harmed in the making of this backpack cyberdeck, and considering that we lost count of the number of USB cables [Bag-Builds] used to connect everything in i…

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3D Printed Jellyfish Lights Up

[Ben] may be 15 years old, but he’s got the knack for 3D printing and artistic mechanical design. When you see his 3D-printed mechanical jellyfish lamp, we think you’ll agree. Honestly,…

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3D Printing A Wire-Wrap Tool: Emergency Fix Or Permanent Solution?

Although less popular these days, wire-wrap is still a very relevant, easily reversible solder-free way to assemble (prototype) systems using wire-wrap wire and a wire-wrap tool. This latter tool c…

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Open-Source, 3D Printed Trackpad

Touchpads, or trackpads, have been around since the 1980s. Today, you can often find them in laptops and notebook computers as pointing devices. With no moving parts, a trackpad are easy to integra…

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Air motor

A Wobble Disk Air Motor With One Moving Part

In general, the simpler a thing is, the better. That doesn’t appear to apply to engines, though, at least not how we’ve been building them. Pistons, cranks, valves, and seals, all opera…

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DIY Air Bearings, No Machining Required

Seeing a heavy load slide around on nearly frictionless air bearings is pretty cool; it’s a little like how the puck levitates on an air hockey table. Commercial air bearings are available, o…

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In the news

Putting The New CryoGrip Build Plate To The Test

BIQU has released a new line of low-temperature build plates that look to be the next step in 3D printing’s iteration—or so YouTuber Printing Perspective thinks after reviewing one. The Cryog…

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A 3D Printed, Open Source Lathe?

[Chris Borge] has spent the last few years creating some interesting 3D printed tools and recently has updated their 3D printable lathe design to make a few improvements. The idea was to 3D print t…

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This week

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-digital-approach-common-problems-3d.html

3D printing buildings without cement

Impact Printing uses high speed jets of material found at building sites to form load bearing structures.

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New solvent-free 3D printing material could enable biodegradable implants

Additive manufacturing (AM) has revolutionized many industries and holds the promise to affect many more in the not too distant future. While people are most familiar with the 3D printers that function much like inkjet printers, another type of AM offers advantages using a different approach...

phys.org

Researcher grows biological tissue in the lab using lasers to produce microfilaments

Pioneer Fellow Hao Liu uses lasers to produce microfilament structures to grow biological tissue in the lab for research and medicine—from muscle tissue to cartilage. Now he's working to ready this technology for the market.

phys.org

New deep ultraviolet micro-LED array advances maskless photolithography

A team led by Prof. Sun Haiding from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) developed a vertically integrated micro-scale light-emitting diode (micro-LED) array which was then applied in deep ultraviolet (DUV) maskless photolithography system for the first time. Their study was...

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https://phys.org/news/2024-10-3d-nanofabrication-sensitive-cationic-photoresist.html

Machine learning enhances defect detection in metal 3D printing

Researchers from Northwestern University, University of Virginia, Carnegie Mellon University, and Argonne National Laboratory have made a significant advancement in defect detection and process monitoring for laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing.

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Bubble printing

Beyond wires: Bubble printing technique powers next-generation electronics

Yokohama National University scientists have developed a promising bubble printing method that enables high-precision patterning of liquid metal wiring for flexible electronics. This technique offers new options for creating bendable, stretchable, and highly conductive circuits, ideal for...

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3D-printed solutions shield electronics from electrostatic discharge

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is a significant concern in the chemical and electronics industries. In electronics, ESD often causes integrated circuit failures due to rapid voltage and current discharges from charged objects, such as human fingers or tools.

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Supersonic microprojectiles reveal new insights into metal bonding

Using a custom-built machine to launch microprojectiles at supersonic speeds, Cornell researchers have uncovered new details about how high-speed metallic collisions can form strong, durable atomic bonds, offering insights that could enhance 3D printing and other manufacturing techniques.

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https://phys.org/news/2024-10-3d-nanofabrication-sensitive-cationic-photoresist.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-digital-approach-common-problems-3d.html

The biggie

Enhanced 3D-printed alloy shows high potential for space applications

A research team has successfully developed a new high-performance metal 3D-printed alloy tailored for space environments. The newly developed alloy demonstrated exceptional mechanical performance at extreme cryogenic temperatures as low as -196°C, proving its high potential for space exploration...

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3D printing method crafts stronger, more ductile alloy for extreme environments

A team of researchers from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Tianmushan Laboratory, and the National University of Singapore has pioneered a new method for crafting an ultra-strong, ductile alloy using 3D printing technology.

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A welder speaks

Professor-turned-welder shares her experience in the trade

Although I have a good gig as a full professor at Iowa State University, I've daydreamed about learning a trade—something that required both my mind and my hands.

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On patents

Hackers, Patents, And 3D Printing

Last week, we ran a post about a slightly controversial video that claimed that a particular 3D-printing slicing strategy was tied up by a patent troll. We’re absolutely not lawyers here at Hackada…

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Brick Layers: The Promise Of Stronger 3D Prints And Why We Cannot Have Nice Things

It is a fact of life that 3D printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers join. Some of this is due to voids and imperfect layer bonding, but you c…

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Ice gun

Thermoelectric Blaster Flings Ice Projectiles

Nerf blasters are fun and all, but flinging foam can get old. Picking it up again, even moreso. This blaster from [Concept Crafted Creations] gets around that annoying problem by shooting ice inste…

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Making

A Beautifully Illustrated Guide To Making

If you’ve ever been wondering what you should make next, it can be a daunting task to decide with the firehose of inspiration coming straight from the series of tubes that makeup the World Wi…

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This is rich:

Scientists transform blood into regenerative materials, paving the way for personalized, 3D-printed implants

Scientists have created a new 'biocooperative' material based on blood, which has been shown to successfully repair bones, paving the way for personalized regenerative blood products that could be used as effective therapies to treat injury and disease.

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Biological
Laminating
Assembly
Heuristic
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Just in

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-key-photoresponsive-visible-3d.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-machine-aids-rapid-advancement-high.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-3d-advance-mitigates-defects-simultaneously.html

 

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A very tough plastic for 3D printing has been developed:

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-team-year-polymers-independent-stiffness.html

More

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-simple-generative-ai-realistic-3d.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-fast-silicone-ink-doors-3d.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-3d-approach-materials-biomedical-energy.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-bendable-electronic-temperature-barrier.html

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-bioprinting-technique-functional-tissue-10x.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-method-molecular-patterns-liquid-droplets.html

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-12-medical-device-mimics-tapeworm-soft.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-hyper-sampling-imaging-ultra-high.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-11-filters-manta-rays.html

Plastic and glass

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-catalyst-methane-polymers.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-machine-optimize-polymer-production.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-cooperative-motion-atoms-glass-fracturing.html

 

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Better prints?

New Tullomer Filament Claims To Beat PEEK

Recently a company called Z-Polymers introduced its new Tullomer FDM filament that comes with a lofty bullet list of purported properties that should give materials like steel, aluminium, and vario…

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incoming

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-visualizing-advanced-spectrometer-3d.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-stretchable-flexible-recyclable-3d-method.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-3d-biggest-flaw-smartest-feature.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-physicists-approach-patterns-fluid.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-catalyst-life-acrylonitrile-production.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-nature-helical-polymer.html

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-foam-filter-high-microplastic.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-scrap-strength-solid-phase-aluminum.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-ai-complex-problems-faster-supercomputers.html

More on 3D printing

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-animal-strength-medical-robotics-3d.html

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-scientists-3d-concrete-method-captures.html

On plastic

https://phys.org/news/2024-12-black-plastic-kitchen-utensils-toxic.html

Blaster

3D Printed Blaster Does It With Compliant Components

The ease of integrating bendy parts into designs is one of 3D printing’s strengths. A great example of this is [uhltimate]’s six-shot blaster which integrates several compliant mechanis…

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Plastic memory?

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-polymer-boosts-high-density-storage.html