Printers and Accessories Articles

Reusing Tape from Old VHS Cassettes to Make 3D Printing Filament

I’ve seen some strange 3D printing materials over the last few years, but this is a new one: the tape from a VHS cassette. So VHS, which stands for Video Home System, is a staple for consumer-grade analog video recording on tape cassettes. The home video industry came...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Takes 3D Printing to Mars

As you would expect, each generation of rover sent to Mars by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has been considerably more sophisticated than its predecessors. From the trolley-like Sojourner to Opportunity , Spirit , and Curiosity , rovers over the past 20 years...

Aston Martin to integrate 3D printed parts into Callum Vanquish 25

The Aston Martin Callum Vanquish 25 by R-Reforged will be the first in a series of bespoke and limited-edition supercars to be designed and produced using MakerBot ’s Method X 3D printer, with other projects already in the pipeline. . MakerBot, a 3D printing company...

Ford adopts Form 3L 3D printers from Formlabs

Ford Spain is the first car manufacturer in Europe to use the Form 3L, a larger format 3D printer from photopolymerization 3D printer OEM Formlabs. Ford Body and Assembly in Valencia uses the Form 3L to produce plastic caps that are used in a vacuum test to check...