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Fifth graders 3D print a prosthetic leg for Stumpy the turtle
By Nick Lavars

Stumpy the box turtle had been short of a limb since the amputation of her injured front leg. But a group of fifth graders have put its school's 3D printer to use and produced a custom-made prosthetic inspired by a classroom chair, saving Stumpy from life with a lopsided hobble.

 

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World's first multi-material, full-colour 3D printer

Stratasys Ltd. has announced the launch of its ground-breaking Objet500 Connex3 – the first and only machine to combine colours with multi-material, 3D printing.

Read more: World s first multi-material full-colour 3D printer

 

[Mr. H.]

World's first multi-material, full-colour 3D printer

Stratasys Ltd. has announced the launch of its ground-breaking Objet500 Connex3 – the first and only machine to combine colours with multi-material, 3D printing.

Read more: World s first multi-material full-colour 3D printer

Cool.

Although I would have given it a less-confounding name. Like Bob.

 

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South African Man 3D Prints a Working Lawn Mower With His Super Fast 3D Printer in Just 9 Hours
by Eddie Krassenstein · January 3, 2015
South African Man 3D Prints a Working Lawn Mower With His Super Fast 3D Printer in Just 9 Hours - 3DPrint.com

It never ceases to amaze me what types of new innovations come about due to 3D printing technology. 2014 was a year that provided the world with many tremendous examples of how this technology will play a major role in the future. Whether it is 3D bioprinting human organs, large scale 3D printer of entire buildings, or microscopic 3D printing, this technology will only continue to surprise us as more and more innovators use it in their creations and inventions.

5% of the population innovates again! The other 95% are fucking worthless!

 

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ISG Now Accepts Cryptocurrency for 3D Printers and Related Services
by Diana Ngo @ 2015-01-03 03:46 PM
ISG Now Accepts Cryptocurrency for 3D Printers and Related Services

Online 3D printing store ISG has announced it has started accepting Bitcoin and Cannabiscoin as payment methods on its website, combining two disruptive technologies into one purchasing experience.

"We are already accepting Bitcoin and have been proud to collaborate with CannabisCoin on a line of 3D printed grinders," said CEO and founder Samuel Guillemette.

"We are open to more collaboration with the cryptocurrency community. We want to bring the best experience to the users."

ISG chose BitPay to process its Bitcoin payments. The company said that it was currently working on integrating Vericoin and "will be accepting more in the next months." ISG is also working on its own cryptocurrency, ISGPaycoin, expected to be functional in the first quarter of 2015.

 

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5000 times more conductive 3D printer ink for printing parts with embedded functional electronics and wiring

Voxel8, creator of the world’s first multi-material 3D electronics printer and backed by Braemar Energy Ventures, announced pre-order availability of its initial product – the Voxel8 Developer’s Kit. Voxel8 also announced its partnership with Autodesk to develop a new design tool called Project Wire for creating 3D electronic devices printed on Voxel8’s platform. Together, Voxel8 and Autodesk are enabling designers and engineers to create three-dimensional parts with embedded circuitry for the first time.

Rapidly design novel devices, such as 3D printed antennas, electromagnetic coils, or stack ICs in ways that were previously impossible. Eliminate wire harnesses by combining them with 3D traces. No longer are you limited to planar PCBs - now you can design the electronics to fit your part, rather than designing the part around the electronics.

 

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ORNL unveils 3D-printed Shelby Cobra in Detroit
By David Szondy
January 13, 2015
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It stands to reason that if you had a big enough 3D printer, one of the first things you would do is print a replica of a vintage 1965 Shelby Cobra sportscar, and that's what the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) did for the 2015 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. The result of a project that took only six weeks from conception to finished product, the vehicle not only celebrates the Shelby Cobra's 50th anniversary, but also acts as a demonstration of modern additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping technology.

 

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TNO is Developing a Racetrack 3D Printing System That is ’10 Times Faster Than Current Technology’

Perhaps you read the title of this article, and automatically assumed that we made a typo. After all, it sounds awfully similar to a story we did in the past about 3D Systems.

If you have been following the 3D printing space for the past several months, then you know that 3D Systems has been working on creating a new 3D printing system that they say is based on a “racetrack architecture”. It is an assembly line of sorts, and is said to be able to fabricate objects up to 50 times faster than other printers currently available today. Now a little over seven months since they revealed details of this potentially revolutionary 3D printing process, a dutch research center, called TNO, reveals that they too are working on similar technology.

 

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The Swarmscapers: Students Create 3D Printing Robots Capable of Building in Outlying Areas

Imagine a reality of 3D printing robots, in a community unto themselves, diligently working in unpredictable temperatures and conditions, strong and steady — just taking care of business. Efficiently. Perfectly. Without complaint. This is what a group of student architects are perfecting with the Swarmscapers.

Imagine these silent machines excavating materials, compiling them, seamlessly 3D printing, and building a colony on Mars where humans could live indefinitely. Robots have all the time in the world. We could set them to work and go back to our business while they make a building, or an entire community on the moon. 3D printed robots creating 3D printed buildings: it’s the ultimate in a perfect cycle of sustainability.

 

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Shanghai-based WinSun 3D Prints 6-Story Apartment Building and an Incredible Home


BY BRITTNEY SEVENSON · JANUARY 18, 2015

The 3D printed home is an accomplishment which many architects and designers have at least been contemplating for a few years now. We have seen numerous companies as well as individuals jump into the space recently, with design concepts which take home building well into the 21st century. Although China has been lagging behind the U.S and Europe in terms of consumer and manufacturing-based 3D printing, one China-based company seems to be leading globally when it comes to the 3D printing of large-scale structures such as homes.

 

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I still think its pretty amazing that 3-D printers are now readily available and so affordable that our son printed these in his basement.

 

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Creating Buildings Out Of Data

Some might worry that society is oversaturated in data, but architect June Grant is spinning straw into gold by using public information to design energy-efficient buildings.

“I do a heavy amount of data analysis, and build models from this data by hand,” says Grant. “I think that emerging tech is a core part of design.” In August, Grant left Steinberg, a San Francisco-based architectural firm, to start her own firm, called The Blink Lab. Grant says The Blink Lab focuses on using data to shape building forms.

For each building project, Grant will gather information from public databases, such as details about the local climate from the U.S. Department of Energy, about traffic patterns from state government websites, and satellite images of the site and its surroundings. All of these, she says, are free and easily downloadable. By analyzing this information in detail, Grant discovers important clues as to how the local inhabitants and future building residents interact with their environment.

“It’s like tuning a guitar,” says Grant. “The better we understand the mechanics of the situation, the more we understand our options in terms of technology.”

 

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Creating Buildings Out Of Data

Some might worry that society is oversaturated in data, but architect June Grant is spinning straw into gold by using public information to design energy-efficient buildings.

“I do a heavy amount of data analysis, and build models from this data by hand,” says Grant. “I think that emerging tech is a core part of design.” In August, Grant left Steinberg, a San Francisco-based architectural firm, to start her own firm, called The Blink Lab. Grant says The Blink Lab focuses on using data to shape building forms.

For each building project, Grant will gather information from public databases, such as details about the local climate from the U.S. Department of Energy, about traffic patterns from state government websites, and satellite images of the site and its surroundings. All of these, she says, are free and easily downloadable. By analyzing this information in detail, Grant discovers important clues as to how the local inhabitants and future building residents interact with their environment.

“It’s like tuning a guitar,” says Grant. “The better we understand the mechanics of the situation, the more we understand our options in terms of technology.”

Creating buildings out of data? Nope.

Using data to help in the building of structures? Yes.

 

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Engineer Creates a Unique 3D Metal Printer for Just $2. Prints in Gold, Platinum, Iron & More

It isn’t often that you come across new 3D printers that utilize an entirely new concept which hasn’t been seen within this industry as of yet. With today’s technology, we are able to 3D print objects in hundreds of different materials, but when it comes to printing with metals, most of these machines are out our price ranges. 3D metal printers are mainly reserved for large corporations, as they come with price tags in excess of $250,000. However, as technology advances, we may one day soon be able to 3D print metal objects from the comfort of our own homes, using 3D printers that won’t break the bank to purchase.
This is exactly what one Argentinian engineer, named Gastón Accardi, has in mind with his latest creation. Accardi has been involved with 3D printing technology for over 12 years, and was one of the first individuals to bring the technology to South America. A while ago, he had an idea for a new type of 3D printer, but due to his busy schedule, he had put off designing it for about five years. That is until a few weeks ago.

 

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How 3D Printing Could End The Deadly Shortage Of Donor Organs

Three-dimensional printing has been used to make everything from pizza to prostheses, and now researchers are working on using the emerging technology to fabricate hearts, kidneys, and other vital human organs.

That would be very big news, as the number of people who desperately need an organ transplant far outstrips the number of donor organs available. On average, about 21 Americans die every day because a needed organ was unavailable.

What exactly is the promise of 3D printing organs and tissues, or "bioprinting?" How does the technology work, and when might it start saving lives?

 

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X-Carve machines custom 3D pieces from wood, metal or plastic
By Tony Borroz
March 11, 2015
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3D printing promises to be the gateway to a world where a person's ideas are literally made manifest. Draw it up on a computer, hit the print button and a short while later, there's what you just designed, sitting before you in the real world. However, 3D printing isn't suitable for everything, with materials issues and desired finish quality to take into account. Enter the X-Carve, a domestic device aimed at the emerging maker market that allows the home-based enthusiast to work in more than just extruded plastic.

 

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Berkeley researchers pioneer new powder-based concrete 3D printing technique
By Adam Williams
March 12, 2015
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3D printing looks set to become very important in architecture, but we've yet to see exactly how the future of large-scale click-and-print construction will play out. A potential step forward comes via a team of UC Berkeley researchers led by Associate Professor of Architecture Ronald Rael, who recently created a free-standing pavilion called Bloom to demonstrate the precision of their powder-based cement method of 3D-printed construction.

 

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Carbon3D Unveils Breakthrough CLIP 3D Printing Technology, 25-100X Faster



BY BRIAN KRASSENSTEIN · MARCH 16, 2015

In what may be one of the biggest stories we have covered this year, a new company, Carbon3D has just emerged out of stealth mode, unveiling an entirely new breakthrough 3D printing process, which is anywhere between 25 and 100 times faster than what’s available on the market today.

Instead of printing an object layer-by-layer, which leads to incredibly slow speeds as well as a weak overall structure similar to that of shale, this new diaprocess harnesses light as a way to cure the resin, and oxygen as an inhibiting agent, to print in true 3-dimensional fashion.

 

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Terminator-inspired tech could give traditional 3D printing a run for its money
By Eric Mack
March 18, 2015
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A new approach to 3D printing promises to drastically speed up the 3D manufacturing process by "growing" objects out of a pool of resin rather than printing them layer by layer. Carbon3D announced its Continuous Liquid Interface Production technology (CLIP) on stage at the TED conference this week, claiming it can produce commercial-quality objects from a range of polymer-based material at speeds between 25 and 100 times faster than conventional 3D printing.