Category: News

Category: News
Scientists Managed To 3D Print Self-Assembling Wood and Carbon Fiber
Scientists Managed To 3D Print Self-Assembling Wood and Carbon Fiber

In most cases, the wood and carbon fiber items are hard, still, and boring pieces. They aren’t flexible and can’t deform and even aren’t expected to. But MIT researchers have developed wood and carbon fiber specially intended to be dynamic, creating images of wood furniture that self-assembles from carbon fiber or flat pack that transforms with the Read more

Portable solar-powered 3D printers can make the printing possible in off-grid communities
Portable solar-powered 3D printers can make the printing possible in off-grid communities

3D printers we use at home or in offices can create all kinds of objects. It’s a good way to let you easily develop prototypes and replacement components that improve our lives greatly. However it’s clear that a 3D printer needs a great amount of electricity. So in the areas that lack electric power there Read more

Harvard’s open-source soft robotics ‘toolkit’ allows you to 3D print your own robot
Harvard’s open-source soft robotics ‘toolkit’ allows you to 3D print your own robot

If you visit our web-site more or less often, you may have noticed that 3D printers are quite often used by enthusiasts to create small robots. This is not at all surprising, because 3D printing is a proper way to create unique components in almost no time and robots are small and funny things to Read more

3D model of Andrew Carnegie’s Mansion available for free download and 3D printing
3D model of Andrew Carnegie’s Mansion available for free download and 3D printing

It’s a rare case when you have a good 3D printed copy of the Carnegie Mansion as a party tabletopper. If recently you were able to visit The Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Awards Gala, you would say that it was indeed though, alongside with the audience inspired by Director of Cooper Hewitt Caroline Baumann to download Read more

3D Printing Central to Nike’s Continued Growth, says CEO
3D Printing Central to Nike’s Continued Growth, says CEO

Innovation is like a new motto of the well-known manufacturer. The company is renowned for its particular attention to the customers’ feedback. The president of Nike Company Mike Parker views innovations in manufacturing as the major component of the company’s success. The innovation process is always intensive, and so Nike is constantly looking for another Read more

Company From Minnesota brings 3D printing services to individual farms
Company From Minnesota brings 3D printing services to individual farms

News about inventive high-tech applications of 3D printing technologies is quite common nowadays. However we shouldn’t think that there’s only a limited number of fields where this technology is useful. Actually creative manufacturing is appropriate to almost any field which somehow uses objects. That’s what GVL Proto Poly, a company situated in Litchfield, Minnesota, give Read more

UK doctors 3D print ears for children with deformities
UK doctors 3D print ears for children with deformities

Scientists are going to use 3D printers to make ears that will help children with some defects. The first trials are about to start in a few months when they plan to transplant 3D printed ears. Head of nanotechnology and regenerative medicine at University College London professor Alex Selfalian explained that they use synthetic materials Read more

The Edible Growth project: new approach to sustainable, healthy 3D printed food
The Edible Growth project: new approach to sustainable, healthy 3D printed food

Have you ever imagined printing some good food when you are hungry? That is the most crucial challenge in the 3D printing world. Can you think and a custom 3D printer in your kitchen that can make edible diverse and tasty meal? Such a printer would be beneficial in many ways. First of all, that Read more

University of Toronto Students Developed a New Method for Bioprinting
University of Toronto Students Developed a New Method for Bioprinting

The so-called competition refine medical technologies based on 3D printing has intensified the production of such things from lightweight casts to body parts. Among the participants there are establishments of various sizes and levels, including amateur producers, as biotech hackers BioCurious have presented clear instructions concerning assembling a DIY bioprinter . In search for new ways of healing lesions and burns Read more

Japan develops software for 3D printing maps for blind
Japan develops software for 3D printing maps for blind

Cartographic authorities in Japan have reported that they have created the special software with which users can download that allows users to download information from the internet and create relatively cheap geographical maps of the country for those who have difficulties with sight, using 3D printers. The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) is the department in Read more