News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
One of the most prolific animation studios today, LAIKA has brought stop-motion animation back to the big screen with a number of endearing and entertaining works in recent years. From Coraline to The Boxtrolls to ParaNorman and Kubo and the Two Strings, the Oregon-based studio has touched all of our hearts in some way with its animations—a feat which it owes in part to 3D printing technologies.
An assistant professor in industrial systems and engineering from Virginia Tech and a team of undergraduate students are hoping to advance customized 3D printed prosthetics with the integration of electronic sensors. The project aims to make sophisticated, electric-powered prosthetics more accessible than existing state-of-the-art prosthetics.
AREVO, a Silicon Valley company specializing in composite 3D printing, made headlines last year for 3D printing what it called the “world’s first true 3D printed commuter bike.” The use case, undertaken in partnership with Studio West, demonstrated AREVO’s ability to rapidly go from design to production. In total, the 3D printed composite bike was produced in under 18 days, drastically reducing the typical design period for a new bike frame.
Ultimaker, a leader in desktop 3D printing, announced that the Ultimaker Material Alliance Program has now influenced over 80 companies worldwide to develop material print profiles for FFF/FDM 3D printing. Ultimaker first formed the program in April 2018 to meet the growing demand for industrial-grade engineering 3D printing materials.
One of the primary ecological concerns of our time is plastic consumption and waste. Of the plastic we use on a day-to-day basis, less than 10% is recycled, with the rest going into landfills and, as it becoming increasingly clear, the ocean. In addition to curbing plastic consumption and reducing what we use, there is also a growing effort to find sustainable alternatives to the ecologically taxing material. One such effort is coming out of MIT, where the Mediated Matter lab is developing a technology for 3D printing water-based biopolymer composites.
Air New Zealand recently completed a proof of concept in which it i ...
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In metal powder bed laser melting technology (SLM), the unsupported or reduced number of supports ha ...
FDM is not only as useful as the small desktop computer we saw. FDM can be very large and can be so ...