Caterham engineers, Formula 1 team from the UK, have made use of 3D printing to create designs for the perfect car for racing. In the latest interview with the Financial Times (registration is required), Caterham made it known that the company is 3D printing about 900 parts a month to accelerate and lessen the costof production. Read more
A Swedish car manufacturer Koenigsegg is going to celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. In this respect the company introduced a supercar that’s going to become the world’s first megacar. This is the first ever auto that can produce power almost equal to its weight. Its weight – 134 kilos – is almost equal to Read more
There are many different 3D printers all around the world and almost every week you can find some news about new 3D printer models or future prototypes. Let’s take a look at a freely articulating 3D printer developed by Joris Laarman Lab in collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). Technologies used Read more
A successful surgery has recently been performed in a Chinese hospital in Guangzhou on a patient suffering from trochanteric fractures with the help of 3D printing technology. The surgery took place on January 19, 2014. Zhang, 43, who fell from the height of 3 meters. He was taken to the emergency of the Third Affiliated Read more
New ‘Da Vinci’ 2.0 3d printers are planned to appear on Taiwan market in mid-April and it is the first part of a global roll-out which is focused on the low-cost 3d printing market. The second generation of ‘Da Vinci’ printer will appear on store shelves in the United States, China, Japan and Europe in Read more
It looks like 3D Printing is getting into almost all the spheres of our lives. This time it’s about music videos. Cut copy – a dance rock-band from Australia – has brought out the fresh music video “We Are Explorers”. You will see two 3D printed characters looking like humans just as small as a Read more
It’s interesting to work with chocolate for it is control of thermal conditions and viscidity that it needs. The chocolate melting point is somewhat 86°F (30° C)-90°F (32° C). After the chocolate chills to the environmental temperature, it will get hard. Even though the chocolate is difficult to extrude and push out, there’s still a Read more
Surgeons suppose that 3D printers will be able to safe lives during operations. Cardio surgeon Erle Austin from Louisville Kosair Children’s Hospital applied a 3D printed replica to schedule and perform a complicated operation on a pediatric cardio-patient in Kentucky. Roland Lian Cung Bawi, a 14-month-old boy, suffered from cardio diseases among which there were Read more
Those who viewed China Pets to be nothing but an innovation couldn’t imagine that those would lay the basis for something we can observe in the 21st century. Head-shaped ceramic pots were sown, so that chia would grow and it would remind of fur and hair. The printGREEN 3D printer from Maribor University in Slovenia developed the Read more
Earlier, we told you about the project called Ara in our previous articles. Project Ara is a modular phone concept that was originally started by Motorola and was kept by Google after recent purchase of Motorola by Lenovo. Also last November Motorola announced their partnership with 3D Systems to develop high-speed 3D printing platform and Read more